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with the first quaternions lost, it contains II 187—IV 67. 70—VI 220. It was corrected by a second hand (D²) from an ancient codex on the final leaf of book VI, starting from 211; the corrections by a third hand of the XVIth century in some places are not worth mentioning. After Jan, who had excerpted from book V § 1—34 and § 43—153, Detlefsen collated the entire codex. — Transcribed from the same exemplar at nearly the same time, and in form and appearance very similar to it, is

F: The Leiden Lipsius codex no. VII, a parchment manuscript, written on bipartite pages. Mutilated at the beginning, it starts from I ind. XI (77) risuus natura and contains all the following books up to XXXVII 199 primum pondere. In these first six books, it was corrected with constant care by a second hand of the XIIth century (F²) from a codex of the older order, a matter upon which I have spoken more fully in the appendix p. 527 sqq. Detlefsen was the first to use this codex for critical purposes and collated the whole of it; later he persuaded himself that it was transcribed from D itself and concluded that it was the long-desired Chiffletianus (cf. append. p. 525, 526). I myself collated it again and, as usually happens in such matters, noted some things more accurately. — Joined by a less tight bond with D is

R: The Florentine Riccardian codex, a parchment manuscript, written in the XIth century in two columns of pages, mutilated in many places—for the middle books XIV—XX, XXIII, XXIV, and the last, XXXVII, have perished—and supplied with other parts from a codex of another family. It begins from the preface § 27 illud est quod and continues up to I ind. XXXIV middle, then it contains II 26 of this volume credi ex usu uitae — VI 220. Sillig used the collation made by Jan in his edition and entrusted it to the Dresden Royal Library; having constantly inspected this, I removed not a few of that man's errors, so that I wish my annotation to be held as the true one where it departs from the Silligian. However, the corrections that are found here and there by a second, and sometimes a third hand, made either in a space scraped clean or with letters distorted or otherwise superscripted, were rarely indicated by Jan in such a way that it could be discerned which hand they belong to. In many places, indeed, traces appear of a codex from the older order (R²), but others bear the appearance of conjecture.

2. Of the other family are

E: The Parisian Latin codex 6795 (for Sillig and Jan a, for Hardouin Regius I), a parchment manuscript, written in the XIth century in two columns of pages, in the first quaternions