Natural History

f: the Chiffletianus codex, used by Dalecampius here and there in his edition in such a way that he would write its more notable readings in the margin; it is now obliterated. Detlefsen judges it to be the same as codex F: cf. above.

With the family of codices Ea seems to be connected

q: the part of the (miscellaneous) Parisian Latin codex 7701 written in the XIIIth century, which contains the beginning of the Natural History up to I ind. XXXII middle. Detlefsen extracted the readings which are noted for the preface.

Five codices return to the order of the older ones by various degrees of closeness, and first, two British ones:

l: the Arundelian codex 98, kept in the British Museum in London and ascribed to the XIIth century, containing I—XVIII: cf. Vol. III, p. XI. Davides Durandus used it for the preface published in London in 1728; for the remaining readings, I am indebted to Victor Ryssel.

Ox: the Oxford codex 274, kept in the library of New College, of almost the same century, containing I—XIX. I. Grafton Milne discussed it in Classical Review VII, p. 451 sqq., who said that this and the Arundelian codex agree very plainly with that from which Robert drew his excerpts and noted the similarity, observed even before, which exists with both.

p: the Pollinganus Latin codex 11301 of Munich (Sillig’s P), written in Italy in 1459, concerning which cf. Sillig’s edition, Vol. I, preface, p. XXI, and Welzhofer’s ‘Beitrag’, p. 82—89. After Ian collated the preface and II 1—137, V 1—30, VI 1—64, I extracted II 138—248, VI 65—220 and certain other parts, and I noted most of the readings, so that the agreement with E²o, visible here and there, might shine forth more clearly, although it is sometimes hidden by peculiar defects or errors. Furthermore, I advise that almost all the numbers are indicated by the scribe not with symbols, but with numeral names.

Salmant.: the Salmantican codex, containing books I—XV, semi-old, as Pintianus says, who cited it not infrequently in his Plinian observations in 1544.

z: the codex excerpted by Dalecampius and marked in the margin of the edition with the siglum M or Man. (Sillig’s r). I have explained its similarity with F² in the appendix, p. 528; furthermore, cf. Vrlichs in Eo II (1866) p. 359, Detlefsen in Philol. XXVIII p. 301, Welzhofer, loc. cit. p. 36.

Perhaps belonging here—for more certain information is lacking—are two

k: Cracovian codices, which Io. Troianski briefly signified in the Index Schol. Hib. Cracov. in 1841, with the preface 1—15 fully copied out as a sample. The other (k) is