UPON THE SOURCES OF THE TEXT.

§ 1. This recension of the Text of the De Uita Contemplatiua On the Contemplative Life is based upon evidence drawn from these four sources:—
I. The Greek MSS. manuscripts.
II. Excerpts contained in the Historiae Ecclesiasticae Ecclesiastical Histories of Eusebius.
III. The Ancient Armenian Version.
IV. The Old Latin Version.

§ 2. In this list of the Greek codices collated, the capital letter prefixt to each is the symbol under which in the critical apparatus I refer to it. The letter is added under which Dr. L. Cohn refers to it in his edition of the De Mundi Opificio On the Creation of the World, Vratislaviae, 1889. Compare also his article on Philonean MSS. in Philologus LI.

A = no. 435 in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It is thus described in the Catalogus Codicum MSS. Bibliothecae Regiae Catalog of Manuscripts in the Royal Library, Tom. II, Parisiis, 1740:—

Codex 435. Parchment, which contains:
1. A treatise of Philo the Jew entitled, Life of the Sage perfected by doctrine, or on unwritten laws.
2. The same, Life of the Civilized Man, or on Joseph.
3. The same, First book of the Life of Moses, or on theology and prophecy. Some parts are missing.
4. The same treatise on charity.
5. The same on repentance.
6. The same on nobility.
7. The same, book on virtues and the embassy to Gaius.
8. Anonymous Paschal Canon, written by a more recent hand.
This codex appears to have been written in the eleventh century.

In the above list of contents it will be seen that the D. V. C. De Vita Contemplativa is omitted. It actually follows after the De Uirtutibus et Legatione ad Caium On the Virtues and the Embassy to Gaius, fol. 163 verso—fol. 173 verso. The omission already occurs in the list of contents which was added on the first folio, in the XVIth century, before the codex was removed from Fontainebleau to Paris, and it recurs in every subsequent catalogue.

B = no. 41 of the St. Mark's Library in Venice, written in 4to, foll. 360, on paper, in the XIIIth century. This codex belonged to Bessarion. Dr. L. Cohn's B.