INTRODUCTION

THE MANUSCRIPTS OF THESE BOOKS

(CHIEFLY FROM MAYHOFF)

N Nonantulanus (Sessorianus): 5th or 6th century, a palimpsestA manuscript page from which the original text has been scraped or washed away so that the page can be reused., now in Rome, once in a Benedictine Monastery at Nonantula, near Modena.

LATER MANUSCRIPTS

1st family

V Leidensis Vossianus, 11th century or earlier.
R Codex Florentinus Riccardianus, about 1100 A.D.
d Codex Parisinus latinus, 6797, 13th century.
F Codex Leidensis, 11th century.
T Codex Toletanus, 13th century.
x The better parts of X, original: "ex exemplari prioris familiae" (from a copy of the former family) (Mayhoff).

2nd family

E Codex Parisinus latinus 6795, 10th or 11th century.
r Corrections from an unknown manuscript noted in R.
a Codex Vindobonensis CCXXXIV.
X Codex Luxemburgensis, the parts not included in x.

"Codd." in the apparatus criticusThe section of a scholarly edition containing the history of the text and variants between manuscripts. is usually the same as Mayhoff's "ll.", meaning a consensus of VR(r)dE, sometimes only a consensus of several manuscripts of the more reliable kind. "Vulg." = the textus receptusThe established or received text commonly accepted by early editors. of the early editions. Of FTx Mayhoff says: original: "lectiones ita tantum adnotatae sunt, ut e silentio nihil concludendum sit." (the readings are noted in such a way that no conclusion should be drawn from silence).