BOETHIUS

ON THE FUNDAMENTALS OF ARITHMETIC

TWO BOOKS.

EXPLANATION OF THE SIGLA.

a = Bamberg codex HI. IV. 12. (F, 20), 10th century, most splendidly adorned; it is highly probable that Gerbert sent this to Otto III. However, the quality of its readings is not consistent. In many places, while some errors were corrected by the hand of a corrector, not a few were left to be corrected. Fifteen of the chapter inscriptions are placed in the wrong position. It has not met with fair fortune, having lost six or seven folios between the thirty-seventh and forty-third chapters of the second book, and the final folio with the end of the fifty-fourth chapter.

b = Bamberg codex HI. IV. 11. (F, 16), 10th century, whose readings are almost everywhere better. Many notes are also annotated above the lines and in the margin by a hand not much more recent, which were read in other codices with either greater or not lesser probability.

c = Bamberg codex HI. IV. 14. (F, 3), 10th century, written very beautifully, though not very diligently. For many individual words are omitted, and five major lacunae gaps are found. It approaches closer to b than to a.

d = Bamberg codex HI. IV. 13. (F, 26), 11th century, which has such a similarity to c that in several places it offers better readings. Many things are added above the lines and in the margin by a second hand.