PREFACE TO THE COLLATIONS

The following is Mr Swainson's account of the MSS and editions collated by him.

B. Burney ms No. 148, small quarto, parchment, probably belongs to the 13th century, but appears from the handwriting to be copied from a MS of the 11th. This is the best of the British Museum MSS. It agrees closely with Orelli's Cod. 0. (the Leyden Ms 118), which belongs to the 12th century; thus in I 25 both omit adiunxit, I 26 for discriptionem both have discrepationem, I 36 for pertinentem, pertingentem, I 95 for bipes, impes, II 37 quodque… expletumque sit om., n 147 spicuarem for disputarem, in 86 protulisseni for P. Rutilii sim. [Add I § 17 freturn for aequum, § 18 descendens sed for descendisset, § 23 naturam intelligentis, § 25 curaque for cur aquae, § 37 sentias qui for sententia est qui, § 43 nee intelligi quicquam om., § 63 a parte for aperte, § 66 foramata for pyramidata, § 81 Junonem om., § 82 censes apud nullum for censes Apim ilium, § 85 GR. added after sententiis, § 93 Silum, § 102 ratio for oratio, § 115 exerses for Xerxes. Ed.] The De Legibus which follows is styled “De iure ciuili et naturali iusticia.” (Written in Italy.)

H. Harleian ms 2465, late 15th cent. Parchment for the first 21 folios, the rest paper written in a different and later hand commencing with -pites of ancipites in I 103. Followed by “libellus de mondi essentia,” i.e. Timaeus. A parchment leaf at the end (part of a legal instrument) gives the date 1418.