Columella: On Agriculture, Vol. I (Loeb)

cents., in the Ambrosian Library in Milan. Written in the German Insular hand, probably at Fulda. Closely related to S.

Added to these are some twenty fifteenth-century manuscripts, known collectively as R, all related and thought to be descended, directly or indirectly, from an ancient manuscript found by Poggio Bracciolini (1380–1459) and taken by him to Italy. Outstanding members of this fifteenth-century family are:

Cod. Laurentianus plut. 53.32 (= a), fol. 172, in the Laurentian Library at Florence.

Cod. Brerensis Mediolanus A.D. XV. 4 (= b), folia not numbered, in the Brera Library, Milan.

Cod. Caesenas Malatestianus plut. 24.2 (= c), fol. 218, in the Malatesta Library at Cesena. Contains the agricultural works of Cato, Columella, and Varro.

Cod. Laurentianus Conv. Suppr. 285 (= d), in the Laurentian Library.

Less important are: Vallicellianus E 39 (= g); Laurentianus plut. 53.24 (= k); Lipsiensis Bibl. Comm. rep. I f. 13 (= l); Venetus Marcianus 462 (= m), which often agrees with b; Laurentianus plut. 53.27 (= p); Laurentianus plut. 91.6 inf. (= q), often agreeing with c; Vaticanus lat. 1525 (= r); Laurentianus-Strozzianus 69 (= s); Bononiensis 2523 (= t); Urbino-Vaticanus 260 (= u); Vaticanus lat. 1526 (= v); Vaticanus lat. 1524 (= w); Vaticanus lat. 1527 (= y); Parisinus lat. 6830 A (= ä); Parisinus lat. 6830 B (= ö); Parisinus lat. 6830 C (= ü); Mosquensis Demidovianus (= μ), now lost.1

1 The Codex Mosquensis, seen by Matthaei in the library of the Demidoffs in Moscow, was destroyed by fire in 1812. Its readings are preserved in C. F. Matthaei, Lectiones Mosquenses, Vol. I, Leipzig, 1779.