VII

PREFACE.

from the words "si quid enim" if indeed anything (below p. 4, 12), so that it is clear that the first sentences have been lost.The Mulomedicina also survived in another codex, which was owned by Gottfried Thomasius, a physician and polymath from Nuremberg (he lived 1660—1746, cf. Will, Nürnbergisches Gelehrtenlexicon IV 33). Thomasius himself composed a catalog of his manuscripts, which was published in a pamphlet edited by R. M. Meelführer in Nuremberg and Leipzig in 1699, entitled Accessiones ad... bibliothecam promissam et latentem (pp. 131—144). There on p. 132, Thomasius mentions paper codices: Macer de virtutibus herbarum cum paraphrasi rhythmis Germanicis expressa Macer on the virtues of herbs with a paraphrase expressed in German rhymes; then Chironis Centauri, Absyrti et Cl. Hermerotis de arte veterinaria libri X Ten books on the veterinary art by Chiron Centaurus, Apsyrtus, and Cl. Hermeros. Oliverii Neapolitani de equis Oliverius the Neapolitan on horses. Vegetius de oculo (sic) medicina cum glossario Vegetius on eye medicine with a glossary. Fabricius (Bibl. Lat. III 178 ed. Ernesti), as Franciscus Boll taught me, annotated somewhat inaccurately: "He kept in Nuremberg a manuscript of Vegetius on veterinary medicine and no less than ten books on the veterinary art by Chiron Centaurus, Apsyrtus, and Cl. Hermeros, and the book of Oliverius the Neapolitan on horses." You see, therefore, that there were two codices. When Ihm, who knew of the Fabricius passage, made inquiries, they told him that the codex was no longer in Nuremberg (cf. edition of Pelagonius, p. 14). From the records of Neuer Zeitungen von Gelehrten Sachen for the year 1747, part one (Leipzig) No. XVIII pp. 162—165, we learn that the library of Thomasius, who died the year before, was then intact but for sale. In the Nuremberg library, I was told that nothing is known today about the catalogs of Thomasius's books mentioned in the Leipzig records, nor about the people who bought those codices in 1747 or later. Perhaps other scholars will be more successful than I in investigating the ruins of the Thomasius library. It seems almost certain that the Thomasius codex of the Mulomedicina lies hidden somewhere today.

The work is divided into ten books adorned with subscriptions, in which the names of the authors are recorded four times.

For we read at the end of the first book (below § 55):

At the foot of the second book (below § 113):