PROOEMIVM.

Book IV The chapters of the fourth book begin.
(list of contents)
The chapters end.
The fourth book of the Variae begins.
(letters)
The fourth book of the Variae ends.
Book V The chapters of the fifth book begin.
(list of contents)
The chapters end.
The fifth book begins.
(letters)
The fifth book of the Variae finishes.

Book I The letters of King Theoderic begin.
(preface)
The chapters for the first book of the letters of King Theoderic begin.
(list of contents)
(letters).
Book II The chapters begin.
(list of contents)
(letters).
Book III The chapters begin.
(list of contents)
(letters)
The fourth book ends.
Book IV The fourth begins.
(list of contents)
(letters).

The letters of King Theoderic begin.
Chapter I.
(preface)
(letters of the first book)
The first book ends.
Book II The chapters of the second book begin.
Magni Aurelii Cassiodorii Senatoris, [titles: v.c. and ill. ex-quaestor of the palace, ex-consul, ex-prefect, and patrician], the book of the Variae ends.

Book VI The chapters of the sixth book of formulae begin.
(list of contents)
The sixth book begins.
(letters)
The sixth book of the Variae ends.
Book VII The titles for the seventh book of the same begin.
(list of contents)
The seventh book of the same begins.
(letters).

Book V The fourth book begins.
(list of contents)
(letters)
The fifth book ends.
Book VI The sixth begins.
(list of contents)
(letters)
The sixth book ends.
Book VII The seventh begins.
(list of contents)
(letters).

The second book of the same begins.
The titles of the second book begin.
(list of contents)
(Epistles II, 1—19. V, 9—34)
The second book ends.
The third book begins.
(Epistles V, 35—37. III, 4—31)
[It] ends.