On the Latin Language, Vol. I

century; it goes only to viii. 7 declinarentur were declined. It is known as b.
10. Codex Parisinus 7535, paper, of the sixteenth century; it contains only v. 1-122, ending with dictae said/named. It is known as c.
11. Codex Vindobonensis lxiii., of the fifteenth century, at Vienna; it was examined by L. Spengel in 1835, and its important variants are recorded in the apparatus of A. Spengel's edition. It is known as V.
12. Codex Basiliensis F iv. 13, at Basel; examined by L. Spengel in 1838. It is known as p.
13. Codex Guelferbytanus 896, of the sixteenth century, at Wolfenbüttel; examined by Schneidewin for K. O. Mueller, and afterwards by L. Spengel. It is known as M.
14. Codex B, probably of the fifteenth century, now not identifiable; its variants were noted by Petrus Victorius in a copy of the Editio Gryphiana, and either it or a very similar manuscript was used by Antonius Augustinus in preparing the so-called Editio Vulgata Common Edition.

These are the manuscripts to which reference is made in our critical notes; there are many others, some of greater authority than those placed at the end of our list, but their readings are mostly not available. In any case, as F alone has prime value, the variants of other than the first four in our list can be only the attempted improvements made by their copyists, and have accordingly the same value as that which attaches to the emendations of editors of printed editions.

Fuller information with regard to the manuscripts may be found in the following: