Preface

Since almost everything regarding the description of the manuscripts and the editorial review original: "recensionem" was completed in the preface we provided for the first volume, I shall consider it sufficient at this point to briefly repeat those resources upon which the review of the third book of these commentaries relies:

The reliable manuscripts original: "Codices boni" are these:
M = Marcian Greek manuscript 195, late 14th century (Volume I, page VI and following) from page 1 to page 104, line 13 "body" original: "σῶμα" | and from page 128, line 5 | "of the" original: "τοῦ" to page 247, line 29 "they say" original: "φασιν" |
P = Paris National Library Greek manuscript 1840, 16th century (Volume I, page IX and following) up to page 283, line 19 "whole" original: "ὅλον" |
Q = Paris National Library Greek Supplemental manuscript 666 (Volume I, page XIII and following) throughout the entire third book.
D¹⁾²⁾ = Paris National Library Greek manuscript 1838 (Volume I, page XIV) used finally from page 283, line 19 | "harmoniously" original: "ἐναρμονίως" where manuscripts M and P are lacking.

1. On a paper leaf that precedes the beginning of the first book, the following is written in a recent hand:
   The following is a translation of the Greek table of contents found in the manuscript
   "These things are contained in this book: Four books of Proclus the Platonic Successor Diadochos: a title for the head of the Platonic Academy on the Timaeus of Plato: the inquiries concerning the fixed stars; concerning their essence, concerning their shape, concerning their position, concerning their motion inserted here: concerning the gods beneath the moon: i.e., the beginning of the fifth book, in which the book also ends, having been written by the hand of Johannes Odramus:—
   The second [book] on page 113, the third on page 271, the fourth on page 453 (i.e., the beginning of the fifth book)."
   Almost the same words, translated into the Latin language, are read on the first parchment leaf; three such leaves are prefixed to the entire manuscript.
2. ANTONIUS ELTER of Bonn, who taught the student of Proclus many things, but especially concerning Johannes Katrarius.