Priscian's Institutes of Grammar, Vol. II

In correcting the following booklets, the edition of Fr. Lindemann, published two years ago, was of extraordinary help. I deemed it safest to follow this in most of the more difficult places. However, I also took into account a fragment of the collation of the Munich Codex.

To correct the booklet on accents, I used a codex whose examination was made possible by the kindness of the most learned Christian Friedrich Matthiae. This book is parchment, of small square format, written in small letters, and seems to date to the 14th century. The accents are not marked in it. Donatus's book on barbarisms is added. I have named this book the Codex Matthiaeus after its most famous owner.

I decided that the Progymnasmata preliminary exercises of Hermogenes, which Heerenius was the first to edit from a manuscript, should be added along with the complete notes of that celebrated editor. They are inserted into the work which is titled: Bibliothek der alten Literatur und Kunst Library of Ancient Literature and Art. Edited by T. C. Tychsen and A. H. L. Heeren. Eighth and Ninth Parts. Göttingen, 1791. 8vo.