EXPLANATION OF SIGNS.

F = The Florentine manuscript.
F^a = The primary writing of the same book changed by the same scribe.
F^b = The secondary writing of the same book originating from the primary scribe.
F¹ = The primary writing of the same book changed by the ordinary corrector.
F² = The secondary writing of the same book originating from the ordinary corrector.
F³ = The secondary writing of the same book originating from a corrector who is not ordinary, but ancient.
F^ae = The primary reading of the same book changed later in ancient times.
F^em = The secondary reading of the same book originating from an ancient emendation.
f = The writing of the same book originating from a corrector of the Bolognese age or even later.
G = In the title on the regulation of boundaries, it signifies the example preserved among the ancient land surveyors (Schriften der röm. Feldmesser ed. Lachmann 1, 276 sq.)
N = Through the tenth book, it signifies the Neapolitan palimpsest manuscript of the Digest IV. A. 8, from which what survives contains small parts of the titles of its second, third, and fourth books.
POMM = In the forty-fifth book, it signifies the Pommersfelden manuscript of the Digest, from which the surviving fragments pertain to the first title of that book.

R = The Berlin manuscript, formerly the Rosny manuscript, Latin folio n. 269 of the 9th century, having part of the first book of the Digest.
S = The second-order books of the Digest, namely the Bolognese ones used by me and reviewed in the larger edition, especially the three following ones of the Old Digest PVL:
P = The Parisian manuscript n. 4450 of the 11th century, the oldest and best among the books of the second order of the Old Digest.
P^a = The primary writing of the same book changed later.
V = The Vatican manuscript 1406 of the 11th century.
L = The Leipzig university manuscript 873 of the 12th century.
B = The Basilica Byzantine Greek law collection and their scholia.
? = The larger question mark signifies that the reading of that book, which immediately precedes, is doubtful: on the contrary, the smaller question mark ? similarly placed after a small letter attached to the F letter (for example F^b?) signifies that the doubt is not about the reading, but about the author of the reading, whether it is the first scribe or the corrector.
dett. = One or more from the Bolognese manuscripts of a later age, likewise one or more editions before Haloander.
Hal. = Haloander’s edition of the Digest, Nuremberg 1529.