Manilius: Astronomica

I have noted the readings of four manuscripts in the critical apparatus. They are as follows:

1. The Gembloux Manuscript (g), formerly of the Gembloux monastery, now in the Royal Library of Brussels (No. 10012), parchment, octavo format, with IC presumably referring to cataloging or identifying marks cards, written as it seems in the 11th century. P. Thomas has treated this book, which I have collated twice myself (1853 and 1892), and published an accurate collation: "Manilian Studies. Written by P. Thomas. Ghent, 1888."

2. The Leipzig Manuscript (l) No. 1465 in the Pauline Library, parchment, large quarto or small folio format, containing 96 leaves. There are twenty-three lines written on each page. I am convinced that it is older than the Cusanus and not inferior in age to the Gembloux manuscript. Joachim Friedrich Feller, with the assistance of his colleague Gottfried Richter, collated this book (see the subscription at the end of Book V) for the sake of the most famous Richard Bentley, who was preparing an edition of this poet complete in every respect (see the preface to Bentley’s edition); this collation is called the Vratislavian (Vrat.) original: "Vratislauiensem" *). I collated the book myself in 1892.

3. The Cusanus Manuscript (c), formerly of the Cusan monastery, now in the Royal Library of Brussels (No. 10699), parchment, small folio format. It contains 17 leaves with small characters in two columns, seventy lines in each column, written as it seems at the end of the 12th century. I collated this book in 1853.

4. The Madrid Manuscript (m), formerly of the Escorial monastery, now in the National Library of Madrid M 31, paper, folio format, written in the 14th or early 15th century. **) G. Loewe discovered this book, which had been buried in long oblivion, and accurately collated it in 1879 (from the 13th of August to the 23rd of September 1879) and wrote some observations on the margin of the edition of Jacobus.

*) It is preserved in the Royal Library of Wrocław, appended to the Scaliger edition.
**) Cf. von Hartel: Sitzungsberichte der philol. histor. Klasse der kaiserlichen Akademie d. W. 113 Bd. Wien 1886, page 215 ff.