inter endicasyllabos Phalegios13 posuit.… Hoc tamen ipsum14 in
P. 8b
deriuatiuis uel compossitis frequenter fieri solet, ut.…‘auis, auceps1’ …‘lauo lautus2, ‘faueo fautor3.’
Et epigrammata4, quae egomet legi in trepode5 uetustissimo Appollinis qui stat in Xerolopho6 Bizantii …
Nos quoque hiatus causa interponimus u loco ϝ ut ‘Dauus7,’ ‘Argiuus8,’ ‘pauo9,’ ‘ouum10’.…Hoc tamen etiam per alias quasdam consonantes hiatus uel euphoniae causa solet fieri11, ut ‘prodest’…
In b etiam solet apud Eoles transire ϝ digamma quotiens ab ρ12 incipit dictio… Apud nos quoque est inuenire, quod pro u consonante
P. 9a
b ponitur, ut ‘caelebs1,’ caelestium uitam ducens2, per b scribitur, quod3 u consonans ante consonantem poni non potest. Sed etiam4 ‘Bruges’ et ‘Belena[1]’ antiquissimi dicebant, teste Quintiliano, qui hoc ostendit in primo institutionum[2]5 oratoriarum6: nec mirum, cum b quoque in u euphoniae causa conuerti inuenimus, ut ‘aufero7’ pro ‘abfero.’
Aspiratio ante omnes8 uocales poni potest… Ideo extrinsecus ascribitur uocalibus9, ut minimum sonet, consonantibus autem intrinsecus10, ut plurimum sonet : omnis enim litera sine uox plus sonat ipsa sese, cum[3] postponitur quam cum anteponitur, quod uocalibus accedens esse uidetur11, nec, si tollatur ea, perit etiam uis significationis, ut si dicam ‘Erennius12’ absque aspiratione, quamuis
13: forsa cenélae metir sin14: .i. buith do ·u· ɔsoin ar guti
P. 8b
1: comṡuidigthe són2: diaruidigthe[4] són3: fortachtid4: inna forliterdi5: nomen artis isin trechostu6: hisindluc sin indṡainriuth ꝉ forsan nomen ciuitatis7: dáne[5]8: grecdae9: gésachtach10: og11: arimmgabáil ménaichthe12: ρ hró
P. 9a
1: óentaim2: celae · dondí as caelestem ·b· tarhesi ·u· dindi as uitam ·s· dindí as ducens3: ol4: cid5: innaforcetal6: innasulbaire7: arcelim8: isairi is reṅguthaigthi suidigthir atinfed dosemigud ⁊ mesrugud indḟoguir máir his isingutti9: remib són10: hitiarmóracht són dolethnugud afoguir11: accidit tecmaiṅg dogutaib anísin12: dofoirṅde inson ⁊ afolad inchoisig
13. in that kind of metre.14. that u-consonant should be for a vowel.
P. 8b
1. this (is) compounded.2. this (is) derived.5. in the tripod.6. in that place especially, or etc.8. a Greek.11. for avoiding hiatus.
P. 9a
2. celae from caelestem, b instead of v from vitam, s from ducens.6. of the eloquence.8. for this reason its aspiration is placed before a vowel, to attenuate and moderate the ample sound which is in the vowel.9. that is, before them.10. that is, in subsequence, to broaden their sound.11. that is an accident which happens to vowels.12. it determines the sound and the substance which it signifies.
