Manuscripts1
P = codex Puteanus, Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale
5730, 5th century.
C = Colbertinus, Paris, do. 5731, 10th century (or
9th).
R = Romanus, Vatican Library, 9th century.
M= Mediceus, Florence, Laurentian Library, 10th
century.
B = Bambergensis, Bamberg, 10th century (or 11th).
D = Cantabrigiensis, Trinity College, Cambridge,
12th century.
A = Agennensis, British Museum, 13th century.
N = Laurentianus Notatus, Florence, 13th century
(rarely cited).
F = Fragmenta Monacensia (two), Munich, 11th century.
2
x=inferior MS. or MSS., 14th or 15th century (for
Px
Ax, etc., see below).
y= late correction in a MS. (
e.g., AY).
z = early editor or commentator.
From P all the rest of the MSS. of XXI-XXV are
directly or indirectly descended. In the critical notes
corrections presumed to be by the original scribe are
[p. x]
marked
p1, by later hands,
p2,
P3, etc., corrections
which cannot be so listed (mainly erasures),
Px; and
so for the other MSS. Arabic numbers in parenthesis
indicate three or more MSS., as follows:
- (1) CRMDA (with B from XXIV. vii. 8, and so for
each of the numbers below3 ).
- (2) CRMD
- (3) CRMA
- (4) CRM
- (5) CRDA
- (6) CRD
- (7) CMDA
- (8) CMD
- (9) CMA
- (10) RMDA
- (11) RMD
- (12) RMA
- (13) RDA
- (14) MDA
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