Hippocrates, Vol. VIII (Loeb Classical Library) (1923) - Page 16

to suggest that the ten treatises share the same transmission: for in fact A, V, and M, even in their original complete states, each contained only a selection of the Hippocratic Collection; furthermore, M subsequently lost 72 leaves of text between the folios now numbered 408 and 409, some time after I had been copied from it in the middle of the thirteenth century. For the treatises we are concerned with here, then, the independent witnesses are as follows:


Places in Man	AV	Physician	V
Glands	V	Use of Liquids	A
Fleshes	V	Ulcers	M
Prorrhetic I	I	Haemorrhoids	I
Prorrhetic II	I	Fistulas	I

Prorrhetic I and II, Haemorrhoids, and Fistulas were all among the treatises contained in the section of M now lost.See H. Kuehlewein and J. Ilberg, Hippocratis Opera Omnia, Leipzig, 1894, vol. 1, p. xx. They also happen to occupy the newer part of Parisinus Graecus 2142, Hb, which derives from I rather than from M directly (as Ha does), and thus possesses no independent textual authority.