The Comedies of Plautus, Vol. I (T. Macci Plauti Comoediae)

Bonianum Vaticanum misc. Lat. 687, 11th century, which contains Captivi 400-555);

P^BD, from which are derived the book just mentioned (P^E) and the first part of two more significant manuscripts, D (Vatican codex 3870, 11th-12th century, which contains Amphitruo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Captivi 1-503, along with the twelve later plays), and B (Palatine codex 1612, 11th-12th century, which contains the eight earlier plays along with the twelve later ones). As for the remaining plays, which they call the twelve later ones, I have denoted them with these sigla:

P^CD, the book from which were transcribed C (Palatine Heidelberg codex 1613, 11th-12th century, which1 Recently reproduced by phototype in Leiden. contains all twelve plays) and the second part of codex D;

P^BC, the book from which were transcribed both the book just mentioned (P^CD) and the second part of codex B. Since scholars are accustomed to using the siglum P to denote those readings which, after the individual manuscripts have been compared and weighed, are judged to provide the most truthful example of the Palatine recension, it was a matter of principle for me, too, to use that siglum in no other way. Therefore, you will usually find nothing but the siglum 'P' (or, if A is absent, 'cod.') applied, since I have aimed to oppose nothing but the best testimony of the Palatine recension (P) against the testimony of the Ambrosian palimpsest (A). Yet, let no one object that I have opposed an image of a book against the true book (A). For throughout most of the plays, I believe the true book is indicated by the siglum P, namely that Teutonic archetype2 I suspect that the book by whose aid the readings of codex B were corrected (B³) whenever they differed from it was both the parent of codex P^BD and the former part of codex P^BC; therefore, that Teutonic archetype was nothing other than this very volume, the first part of which was the source of the corrections (B³) and the second part of which was the codex P^BC. from a very ancient codex (P^A) (perhaps 3rd-5th century, and finished in the script they call rustic capitals) and copied (8th-10th century); throughout those plays, however...