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CLARE COLLEGE LIBRARY.

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The text then proceeds to IX. 3. 2 :
prius fit hisdem generibus quibus uitia. esse enim fomne
huiusmodit nulla contentio est cedendum uero.
The words between daggers are voces nihili. What follows
them is from x. 1. 107. There has been a large lacuna in
the archetype. The text is then unbroken as far as X. 3. 32.
Admonitione corrigi non potuerat unitatis (I. mutatis), after
which nearly a whole column is left blank.
3. Auli Gellii Noctes Atticae.
Preface (sometimes printed as xx. 11).
locundiora alia (Z. At qui jucundiora) repperiri queunt.
—quid quoque in libro queri inuenirique possit.
The Greek quotation is written with some intelligence, and
in the fuller form: six lines instead of the three that appear
e.g. in the Leyden text of 1644.
The chapters of book I. follow.
Text.
Alutarcus (sic) in libro quem de hercule.
Capitula of book II.
Text of book II.
The chapters are numbered in the margin in Greek as well
as in Latin capitals.
Book II. ends :
cuius rei causam cum aristotilis libros problematorum
precerperemus notaui. The quotation that follows in
the printed text: cur austro spirante—atrum esse
uidetur, is omitted.
Capitula of book III.
Text.
Capitula of book iv.
Text.
Capitula of book V.
Text.
Capitula of book VI.
Text, at the beginning of which a space of 5 lines is left blank:
—homines dicantur fecisse.
Capitula of book vn.
Text: ends imperfectly in ch. xvi.
que uarro approbans exsecutus est hec sunt ferme.

27. Historia Turpini.

Historia Britonum etc.

I Kk. 5. 3

Vellum, 13I x 8|, ff. 75 + 2, double columns of 38 lines. Cent,
xiv, early, with good ornaments, in a clear round hand, of the kind
that seems to be formed on an Italian model.