Volume 2

T. Lucreti Cari De rerum natura libri sex / with notes and a translation by H.A.J. Munro.

  • Lucretius
Date:
1900-1910
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    the other. These two therefore I have used as good examples of cor- rected codices, From whom come the many excellent emendations con- tained in these mss. is quite unknown. Lachmann used a not very complete collation of Flor. 31, and to it he attributes the corrections which it has for the most part in common with the Cambridge and doubtless some other mss. Having been told too by H. Keil from whom he got the collation that it was written by Antonius Marii filius, he fills his commentary from one end to the other with the name of this worthy Florentine notary. I can only say that I compared it with ten or more voluminous mss. written in magnificent style and signed by this man between 1420 and 1451 all closely resembling each other; and neither in general appearance nor in the form of particular letters nor in their abbreviations have they any resemblance to the ms. of Lucretius. This scribe's name therefore I have excluded from my notes. Of the other Laurentian mss. 29 is to be noticed for the marginal annotations of Angelo Politian spoken of above and often referred to in notes 1: it twice over has this note *liber conventus Saneti Marci de Florentia ordinis ' Praedicatorum habitus a publicis sectoribus pro libris quos sibi ab eodem conventu commodatos Angelus Politianus amisit seu qui in morte Angeli Politiani amissi sunt'. 32 has some learned marginal remarks on the first book from which I have derived some facts about Marullus. The six mss. of the Vatican I collated as long ago as the autumn of 1849, but not with much care or skill; yet it will be seen from notes 1 that they have been of considerable service to me: their marks are as follows, 3275 and 3276 Vatic. 640 Urbin. 1136 and 1954 Othobon. and 1706 Regin., at the bottom of the first page of which are the words *Nicolai Heinsii. As further helps I have had Gifanius' ed. of 1595 with ms. notes by Nic. Heinsius which I bought from H. G. Bohn many years ago: it will be seen that I have derived from it some valuable emendations not in Heinsius' adversaria nor elsewhere so far as I know. It has also a com- plete collation of A all through, of B in the first four books, and of the Gottorpian fragment. It contains too à complete collation of the codex Modii, which Heinsius denotes-by s: he says of it * variantes lectiones excerptae sunt ex libello edito Paris. an. 1565 quem Fr. Modius cum ms. suo contulit, ut ipse testatur fine lib. 1 inquiens: Collatus cum ms. meo 26 Junii 1519 Coloniae: it was lent to Heinsius by Liraeus ; Liraeus had it from Gruter, Gruter from Nansius, Nansius from Modius himself. Heinsius says *codex Modii non est idem cum B Vossiano, nam pag. 8 [1 227] ubi ex Modiano notatum ad lwmina, Vossianus in. Heinsius speaks I presume of the small 2nd ed. of Lambinus, as the one which Modius used: it has like others in lwmina: if then Modius' codex is B, either he or Heinsius has made a gross mistake. 1 have noticed several other instances, where s is made to differ from B; but in these cases Lambinus! 2nd ed. has the reading which Heinsius gives to s, so that
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