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Minor Latin poets; with introductions and English translations

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INTRODUCTION TOSIGLAUsed by H. Schexkl ix Postgate's C. P. L.The Best Group ofMSS.N = Neapolitanus 380. end of 14th cent, or beginningof I5th.G = Gaddianus 90, 12 in Laurentian Library,Florence : 15th cent. [Akin to N, but some-A = Nicolaus Angelius' readings from theIXFERIOR MSS.V = " vulgaris notae libri," of I5th or I6th cent, <strong>and</strong>interpolated. [Schenkl divides them into twoclasses :V = the slightly betterw = the worst.Giarratano dislikes Schenkl's subdivision intou <strong>and</strong> ic]what inferior.]now lostMS. brought by Thadeus Ugoletus from Ger-they were entered in the year 1492 onmany :the margin of codex Riccardianus 363 atFlorence.H = Readings in codex Harleianus 2578, 16th cent.,apparently from a manuscript of Boccaccio'sor the manuscript of Ugoletus." Baehrens, the first collator of G, inclined to overvalue itSchenkl, on the other h<strong>and</strong>, perhaps ovo'valued N. Giarratanopleads for a fair estimate of the merits of G, even if N ison the whole the better manuscript.2l6

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