^{page xii note 1} The work badly needs a full-scale study, but the following may be consulted, mainly on bibliographical questions : Ferguson, J., ‘ Bibliographical notes’, Archaeologia, li (1888), pp. 107–41CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Ferguson, J. (ed. Alexander, E. H.), ‘Notes on De Inuentoribus Rerum’, Isis, xvii (1932), pp. 71–93Google Scholar (reproducing an engraved portrait of Vergil from J. Thane, Supplement to the British Autography [London, n.d.]; I owe the identification of this portrait to the late Dr. F. Saxl). On the condemnation of the book by the church, see Reusch, H., Die ‘Indices Librorum Prohibitorum’ des 16. Jahrhunderts (Tubingen, 1886), pp. 110, 229, 276, 289.Google Scholar Cf. Cervantes, Don Quixote, caps. Ix, lxi.

^{page xiii note 1} On place of publication, see Goldschmidt, E. M., Medieval Texts (Bibliographical Society, 1943), pp. 74–5Google Scholar. On publication of medieval historical texts in the early sixteenth century, cf. the introduction in Wattenbach, W., Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen im Mittelalter (ed. Dümmler, E.) (Stuttgart and Berlin, 1904), iGoogle Scholar. Th. Mommsen discusses Vergil's sources and methods in his preface to Chronica Minora saec. IV–VII (Mon. Germ. Hist.), iii. 19–20.

^{page xiii note 2} Below, p. xvii.

^{page xiii note 3} A description of the MS. will be found below, pp. xl–xli.

^{page xiii note 4} E.g. by Gasquet, Stornajolo, Whitney and Cram: for references, see below, p. xl.