The Extant Works of Macrobius, Vol. 2

PREFACE.

LI (M)²), from Palatine 886 (V, i.e., Vatican)³), from the Reginensis, intermixed. The words are often joined; the handwriting is clear; abbreviations are rare.

2. Which is my M1, prolegomena, p. LXXXIV. The learned gentleman collated [these] with the Rivian edition (v³) for Sat. I, 2, 1; 5, 9; I, 7, 36; 8, 5; I, 10, 3–9 and 16; 11, 42; 16, 18; II, 7, 1–11; III, 10, 7; 13, 7–9; 14, 5; 18, 12, and the entire sixth book.

3. A parchment codex of square format from the 10th century. Beyond many other things, it contains, starting from folio CXXV, certain excerpts from the Saturnalia, books I–III. The learned gentleman collated almost all of what is read there with the Bipontine edition. The inscription is: EX LIBRO MACROBII SATVRNALIVM EXCERPTVM DE SERVIS. Then follow the words: Iocone an serio, etc., I, 11, 2–43, with the inscription inserted before § 35: ANCILLAS ETIAM FORTIA FACTA FECISSE COMMEMORAT; II, 1, 7; 2, 17; 4, 25; 7, 11; III, 13, 11 and 12; 14, 5, from the words "adeo et ipse" to the end of the book, to which is subscribed: MACROBII THEODOSII V. CONVIVIORVM SECVNDI EXPLICIT. One might therefore think that Is. Pontanus could have used this codex to prove his commentaries, concerning which see the prolegomena, p. XXXII sqq.; but the number II in this codex, as in P (cf. prolegomena, p. LXXXIII), seems to refer to the order of the days. Furthermore, the same learned gentleman saw these codices in the Vatican Library:

a) Palatine 1575, parchment, large format, 15th century, "Ianoccii Manetti," in which the following inscription is read: Macrobii Theodosii viri illustrissimi Saturnaliorum liber primus incipit feliciter, and the subscription: Macrobii Theodosii V. C. et inl. conviviorum tertii diei liber feliciter explicit. There follows Cicero's Dream of Scipio with Macrobius's Commentaries.

b) Vatican 3417, parchment, very small format, 14th century. Inscription: Macrobii Theodosii vc. et ill. conviviorum primi diei Saturnaliorum incipit feliciter; subscription: Macrobii Theodosii vc. et inl. conviviorum tertii diei.

c) Urbinas 1214, parchment, large format, 15th century, most elegantly written. Inscription: MACROBII THEODOSII VIRI ILLVSTRIS SATVRNALIORVM LIBER I.; subscription: M. THEODOSII V. C. ET ILL. CONVIVIORVM TERTII DIEI EXPLICIT FELICITER.

d) Ottobonianus 1197, "From the library of the Most Serene Queen No. 1820," parchment, square format, 14th century. Contains Commentaries on the Dream of Scipio and the seventh book of the Saturnalia, with the inscription: Liber Macrobii viri consularis incipit, and with the subscription: Macrobii Theodosii viri consularis et illusarū (sic) conviviorum tertii diei Saturnaliorum liber explicit.

e) Ottobonianus 1747, parchment, large format, 15th century. Inscription: Macrobii Theodosii Saturnaliorum liber primus incipit ad Eustachium filium, and subscription: Macrobii Theodosii Saturnaliorum liber septimus et ultimus explicit VI. ianuarii MCCCCXLV. Bononiae per me Iohannem olim (ordin.?) Benedicti de Florentia.

f) Ottobonianus 1935, parchment, square format, 14th century. Contains on 63 folios certain parts of the Saturnalia without any subscription.

g) Ottobonianus 2047, parchment, large format, 15th century. Inscription (folio CXLIV): Macrobius in Saturnalibus. Qui et dicitur cena ph͠yorum (philosophorum?); subscription: Macrobii vi. cl. et illustris conviviorum tertii diei.