The Birthday Book (De Die Natali)

...[lacunae] were added, which, where all our codices recognize them, I did not want to remove, but merely enclosed in brackets, a method that either greater or lesser certainty or the likeness of truth in various places seemed to persuade original: *) Cf. p. 3, 11. 10, 7. 12, 6. 37, 15. 38, 23. 42, 19.. Even this consensus teaches, as I have already warned above, that the codices which now exist are derived from the same archetypo archetype/original source.

The codices, however, which have come to my attention are these.

The codex formerly of Cologne, now kept in the library at Darmstadt, no. 166 in the catalogue of Hartzheim. This codex is the most ancient of all, written in uncialibus uncial/capital letters on parchment of a very large format in the seventh century. After the Consultum Fortunatianum Consulte of Fortunatianus and Marium Victorinum Marius Victorinus, Censorinus is read with a fragment on thirty leaves (232–262). I collated this precious book as accurately as I could with the second edition of Lindenbrogii Lindenbrog of the year 1642, although I afterwards saw that I had not noted all things in orthographic matters with the diligence that was due. Nor did a second collation of the same codex, which Federus Feder sent me later, unsolicited—performed by Walthero Walther, the secretary of the library—fill this defect. Nevertheless, this task was very welcome to me, for by its help it came to pass that I can never doubt the reading of the codex, and I dare affirm that, besides certain orthographic matters, all the readings of the codex have been noted. Ludovicus Carrio Ludwig Carrio used the Cologne codex, but quite negligently, so that his edition, which at Lu-