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PRAEFATIO IN MARTIANVM CAPELLAM PREFACE TO MARTIANUS CAPELLA

as in all the previous editions, that epilogue is read, nor will anyone who does not wish to use false acumen believe that there is anything in the content or the words whereby it appears that Gregory of Tours would not have wanted to add that epilogue to his work. Therefore, since Gregory was born in the year 539, Martianus already occupied the schools by the end of the sixth century after the birth of Christ, which corresponds very well with the fact that Martianus appears to have been emended already in the year 498, according to the subscription about which it was spoken on page IV.

I shall append two passages pointed out to me by Philipp Jaffé, which will declare in what honor Martianus was held in those times: the other is excerpted from the letter of Wibald, procurator of the church of Corvey, to Manegold in the year 1149 (Iaffé mon. Corb. I, p. 279): "But see that your judgment has not erred because you proclaimed in me the knowledge and eloquence which are represented in that manifold and enigmatic epithalamium of Martianus Capella. I received the arts which are called liberal and other things which are written about medicine or agriculture from the best teachers." The other is ibid. p. 275: "As often as I consider the marriage of Mercury and Philology," etc.

And they seem to include the entire work:

Autricensis Codex from Chartres 1, parchment, 4. (Haenel cat. p. 130.)

Autricensis 2, "M. C. On the Marriage of Philosophy; a treatise on various arts and sciences."

Aurelianensis Codex from Orléans "M. C. on the Marriage of Philology and Mercury," 15th century, parchment, 12. (Haenel p. 130.)

Bruxellensis Codex from Brussels, parchment, 4. (Haenel p. 763.)

Cantabrigiensis Codex from Cambridge 1 (I cite the codices kept in Paris and in Britain from Montfaucon because the books that pertain here are not at hand), "M. M. F. C. A treatise on the seven liberal arts." In the public library at Cambridge.