PREFACE OF THE EDITOR

7701 Parisinus Latinus 7701 (Paris. 7701), formerly Putianeus, on parchment, quarto format, two columns, twelfth century. Florus (fol. 39—76) and all the summaries of Livy (fol. 76—104)1) are read between Cicero's books On the Orator and the preface to Pliny’s Natural History, and the indices of authors. I described it more accurately in the aforementioned place, p. 69 sq.

Parisinus Latinus 18104, formerly Nostradamensis, on parchment, quarto format. On leaves 183v—186v, it provides excerpts from the books of Florus, memorable for the reason that a prologue precedes them, of which I shall speak below.

Leidensis Vossianus in oct. 5, on parchment, thirteenth century. It contains Florus (fol. 1—79) and seven summaries of Livy (fol. 79—85v). I found nothing in it that was not known from elsewhere. Beck ('Observat.' p. 8, note 1) calls it the twin of book L.

Voss. Leidensis Vossianus in oct. 77 (Voss.), formerly of the convent of the House of God, then of Franciscus Dantan, on parchment, thirteenth century. After Florus (fol. 1—82v), it has seven summaries of Livy (fol. 83—90v). This codex, copied by several scribes—of one of whom, a learned man, it appears from the scholia he added in the margins—I value less than Beck ('Commentat. Woelfflin.' p. 162).

1) It fell to me to find—if not the archetype of the summaries of this codex—at least one parchment leaf of a very similar book. It is the Bernensis A 92, of octavo format (0.158 × 0.206), written in the same age as N and containing the summaries of the sixth, seventh, and eighth books from the words Sabatina Arniensis (p. 12, 4 ed. Iahn) to the words consulem facerent (p. 14, 9). In this small space, it agrees with P (Parisinus 7701) against N in these places: 13, 12 rostroque; 17, impetrarent; 19, ab aulo; 21, decimuris; 25, de occupanda ea. Thus, it is clear that P, which H. I. Mueller ('Jahresberichte des philol. Vereins zu Berlin' XVI [1890] p. 204) valued little, is of no less value in the summaries than N itself. Furthermore, in 'Rhenish Museum' XLIV (1889) p. 71 (cf. p. 77), I indicated that in the word occupande, the book N has a dot, not a comma, under the letter e. Therefore, Mueller erred when he thought (l.c. p. 203) that occupandae exists in this place, which contributes much to judging the value of books N and P. I do not know why he attributes N to the eighth century (p. 202).