The following table is in the hand of the most learned man Richard Porson, M.A., Professor of the Greek Language at Cambridge.

α 1. Euthyphro or on Holiness: Peirastic original: "πειραστικός" (peirastikos). A genre of dialogue intended to test or probe an interlocutor's knowledge.. 1. a
2. Apology of Socrates: Ethical. 8. a
3. Crito or on Duty: Ethical. 20. b
4. Phaedo or on the Soul: Ethical. 26. a
E 5. Cratylus or on the Correctness of Names: Logical. 38. a
6. Theaetetus or on Knowledge: Peirastic. 83. a
LL 7. Sophist or on Being: Logical. 113. a
8. Statesman or on Kingship: Logical. 136. b
L 9. Parmenides or on Ideas: Logical. 154. a
10. Philebus or on Pleasure: Ethical. 173. a
11. Symposium or on the Good: Ethical. 198. b
12. Phaedrus or on Beauty: Ethical. 224. a

α 13. Alcibiades I or on the Nature of Man: Maieutic original: "μαιευτικός" (maieutikos). Relating to the Socratic "midwifery" method of drawing out ideas already present in the student's mind.. 248. b
14. Alcibiades II or on Prayer: Maieutic. 263. a
15. Hipparchus or The Profiteer: Ethical. 269. b
16. The Lovers or on Philosophy: Ethical. 273. a
ε 17. Theages or on Prudence: Maieutic. 277. a
18. Charmides or on Prudence: Peirastic. 282. a
19. Laches or on Courage: Maieutic. 295. a
20. Lysis or on Friendship: Maieutic. 307. a
S 21. Euthydemus or The Disputatious: Subversive original: "ἀνατρεπτικός" (anatreptikos). A dialogue intended to overturn or refute an opponent's position.. 317. b
22. Protagoras or The Sophists: Demonstrative. 336. a
23. Gorgias or on Rhetoric: Subversive. 368. b
24. Meno or on Virtue: Peirastic. 405. a

REGISTER

A list documenting the gatherings of pages (quires) that make up the book.

The page contains the circular stamp of the British Museum: MUSEUM BRITANNICUM.

A 1
B 9
Γ 17
Δ 25
E 33
ϛ 41
Z 49
H 57
Θ 65
I 73
IA 81
IB 89
IΓ 97
IΔ 105
IE 112
Iϛ 120
IZ 128
IH 136
Quire K was moved after quire 46, pages 357-359.

† or K, one of which was omitted by mistake, IΘ 144
KA 152
KB 160
KΓ 168
KΔ 176
KE 184
Kϛ 192
KZ 200

KH 208
KΘ 216
Λ 224
ΛA 232
ΛB 240
ΛΓ 248
ΛΔ 256
ΛE 264
Λϛ 272
ΛZ 280
ΛH 288
ΛΘ 296
M 304
MA 312
MB 320
MΓ 328
MΔ 336
ME 344
46, apparently placed twice by mistake, 352. 359* Mϛ 352
MZ 367
MH 375
MΘ 383
N 391
NA 399
NB 407
NΓ 415

The manuscript therefore consists of 52 and a half quires A quire, or "plagula," is a group of folded sheets sewn together as a single section of a book.; and 420 leaves original: "foliis." A leaf is one piece of paper or parchment consisting of two pages (front and back). (including the three marked 359*).

† Quire κ, which ought to contain the Statesman as far as it exists in the Aldine edition page 175, line 26 up to "often" on page 185, line 2; the Basel edition pages 129, 15—136, 15; Henri Estienne volume II, page 289 D—300 A; Laemmar page 183 D, line 4—190 G, line 7; Frankfurt edition 549 C, line 9—560 D, line 7—alas! was omitted due to the binder's negligence when the book was first bound.