As stated in the General Introduction, although Lütjohann's apparatus is the only positive apparatus of the works of Sidonius, some corrections are needed, since the collation of Book 5 has highlighted numerous mistakes in the reports of the readings. Here is a list for each manuscript, starting with P, the collation of which is particularly flawed in Lütjohann.

P

Dolveck has reached the conclusion that P has a far more important place in manuscript tradition than has been argued before. Lütjohann describes it as satis neglegenter scriptus; similarly, Mohr states that he has discarded, ‘for the benefit of brevity, the lectiones in P and F’, and that he makes use of these manuscripts only when codices meliores prove to be unhelpful. Loyen too chooses not to use P for the constitutio textus.

Therefore, Lütjohann's apparatus is the only one that includes the readings of this manuscript; and yet, given that some readings are wrong or wrongly attributed to P, it is worth signalling them. Below is a list of readings which in the edition are ascribed to CFLM (and which were verified by me) whose presence in P, however, is not signalled. Therefore, these readings should be read against Lütjohann:

• Ep. 5.4 p. 80 line 11: Simplitio (FP);

• Ep. 5.7 p. 82 line 1: Taumasto (CP); line 4: hii (MP); line 5: hii (MP); line 9: hii (FP); line 13: hii (MP);

• Ep. 5.14 p. 87 line 27: hebetebantur (L), hębetebantur (P);

• Ep. 5.15 p. 88 line 6: Ruritio (MP);

• Ep. 5.17 p. 90 line 20: Domnitius (CP); p. 91 line 2: distiti (LP).

The recognition of Book 5 in P gives evidence in favour of Dolveck's proposition that L, M and P belong to the same branch of the family – unlike what can be gathered from both Leo's and Loyen's stemmata – and that P is indeed higher than F.