Codices Anonymi breuis expositionis Vergilii Georgicorum[1].
P. ( = N. Hagen) = Cod. Paris. Lat. 7690.
P². ( = P. Hagen) = Cod. Par. 11308.
G. = Codex Burmannianus, nunc bibl. Leidensis publ. Lat. n. 135, s. xi.
10. Codices Prisciani.
The following manuscripts of Priscian contain Irish glosses and notes:
A. Codex Sangallensis No. 904.
B. Codex Augiensis No. cxxxii, nunc Carolsruhanus.
C. Codex Leidensis. Cod. Lat., G7.
D. Fragmentum Ambrosianum. Cod. A. 138 sup.
It has been shewn by Hertz[2] that the first three codices come from a common source, and that A and C are especially closely related. From a photograph of a page of D it is clear that it belongs to the same family[3], and that it is even more closely related to C[4] than A is, while at the same time it can neither have been the source of C nor can it have been copied from C.
Irish glosses are by far most numerous in A. In part B has similar Irish glosses to A, but it has also many Irish glosses peculiar to itself. Most of the Irish glosses in C are also found in A. Corresponding to the Irish glosses in D are generally found Irish glosses in A, but while they agree in sense, they often differ in form[5]. It is to be observed further that no two of the other collections have an Irish gloss in common which is not shared by A; the only instance, however, is ḟoilenn (Sg. 93a 1) = failen (Pcr. 37a 1) = foilenn (Pld. 59a).
In addition to the Irish glosses the MSS. have a larger or smaller number
- ↑ Through inadvertence the few Irish glosses in this text have been published under the name of Philargyrius, and so they are given from P on p. 48 of the present volume. The readings of P2 and G will be found infra p. 418. The full Latin text has now been published by Hagen, Serv. vol. iii. Fasc. ii., Appendix Serviana.
- ↑ Gramm. Lat. II. xvi.
- ↑ Thus in Hertz I. 149 l. 13 after aqua D has the same addition as the three other MSS.: lar (quando signi)ficat κατονκαναιον φων [leg. κατοικίδιον θεόν] laris facit genitiuum • sín imperatorem……(l)artis • quern mactauit cosus . et testis ouidius in epigrammatis (lart)e ferox cesso cosus opima tulit: liuius • in • iiii • ab urbe tolumnio rege ueient(um).
- ↑ Some examples of agreement with C are: protulit hoc idem in prima epistolarum = Hertz I. 144, 17; apud Latinos = Hertz I. 145, 5; uel per duas terminationes uel per tres = Hertz I. 145, 6; unum in ro = Hertz I. 146, 3; et amatoriae =Hertz I. 148, 15.
- ↑ Instances of peculiar readings in D are: democritus etheu = Hertz I. 144, 21; statius followed directly by soluerat = Hertz I. 145, 26; argo mango (argo apparently cancelled and mango added over the line) = mango Hertz I. 146, 4 (C has margo with ꝉ ango on the margin); in al neutra sunt latina omnia ut tribunal = Hertz I. 147, 1; in im quoque inuenitur (neutrum?) (pro)prium cim = Hertz I. 148, 6; uirgilius in uii. solforea = Hertz I. 149, 11. Corresponding to Hertz I. 150, 11 D has, not in the text, but between the columns, ħ plaŭ Colꝉlũs (i.e. collus uel collum) i columbari • haut multũ (?) (the rest is lost by the mutilation of the page).
