The Satyricon

and gold. It contains seven books of Pliny’s epistles, Rutilius Lupus and Aquila, then Petronius. Otto Iahnius compared it with the Bipontina in Florence on the Nones and the day after the Nones of September in the year 1839.

E

E: codex of the Messina monastery of the Benedictines of St. Placidus, parchment, written well in the 12th century. The beginning is missing up to "ma]gna" p. 5, 2. There are 31 folios. At the end these are read:

Otto Iahnius compared it with the Bipontina at Messina on the tenth day before the Kalends of June in the year 1839.

F

F: Leiden Vossianus 265 codex of the octavo catalogue 81, parchment, written hastily in the 15th century. It contains the Priapea and Vergilian catalecta, then from folio 27 to 54 Petronius, finally the three men of Amor. A page of twenty-five or twenty-eight lines. It was tedious to report the recent hand that corrected or added by explaining. I, too, once compared this codex, sent from Jacobus Geelius to Bonn, with the earlier Burmanniana, and while staying at Leiden, Theodorus Mommsenus, by the favor of Otto Iahnius, compared it with the Bipontina.

G

G: Wolfenbüttel extravag. 299 codex, parchment, in quarto format, elegantly written in the 15th century. It contains Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis, then from folio 17 Petronius, finally Leonardo Bruni’s interpretation of Aristotle’s Oeconomics and an oration held in the name of Heliogabalus to the harlots. A page of seventeen lines. Another person took care of correcting it, or certainly used different ink. A note was placed in the margin for sayings or witty remarks. I compared this codex, brought to Bonn through the intercession of Fridericus Ritschelius and Antonius Klettius, with the Bipontina.

P

P: Paris codex 8049 parchment, in quarto format (Colbertinus 1781, Regius 5622), glued together from three parts: