[9.] The strokes over the two consecutive i’s on fol. 53v, l. 23, were made by a hand that can hardly be older than the thirteenth century.
[10.] I venture to read dominus meus ... in te deus.
[11.] This doubtless stands for Quaere (= “investigate”), a frequent marginal note in manuscripts of all ages. A number of instances of Q for quaere are given by A. C. Clark, The Descent of Manuscripts, Oxford 1918, p. 35.
8 [12.] Such a division as ut|or on fol. 7, l. 10, is due entirely to thoughtless copying. The scribe probably took ut for a word.
[13.] For further details on syllabification in our oldest Latin manuscripts, see Th. Mommsen, “Livii Codex Veronensis,” in Abhandlungen der k. Akad. d. Wiss. zu Berlin, phil. hist. Cl. (1868), p. 163, n. 2, and pp. 165-6; Mommsen-Studemund, Analecta Liviana (Leipsic 1873), p. 3; Brandt, “Der St. Galler Palimpsest,” in Sitzungsberichte der phil. hist. Cl. der k. Akad. der Wiss. in Wien, CVIII (1885), pp. 245-6; L. Traube, “Palaeographische Forschungen IV,” in Abhandlungen d. h. t. Cl. d. k. Bayer. Akad. d. Wiss. XXIV. 1 (1906), p. 27; A. W. Van Buren, “The Palimpsest of Cicero’s De Re Publica,” in Archaeological Institute of America, Supplementary Papers of the American School of Classical Studies in Rome, ii (1908), pp. 89 sqq.; C. Wessely, in his preface to the facsimile edition of the Vienna Livy (MS. lat. 15), published in the Leyden series, Codices graeci et latini, etc., T. XI. See also W. G. Hale, “Syllabification in Roman speech,” in Harvard Studies of Classical Philology, VII (1896), pp. 249-71, and W. Dennison, “Syllabification in Latin Inscriptions,” in Classical Philology, I (1906), pp. 47-68.
10 [14.] That is, manuscripts written before the eighth century. The number of abbreviations increases considerably during the eighth century. Previously the only symbols found in calligraphic majuscule manuscripts are the “Nomina Sacra” (deus, dominus, Iesus, Christus, spiritus, sanctus), which constantly occur in Christian literature, and such suspensions as are met with in our fragment. A familiar exception is the manuscript of Gaius, preserved in the Chapter library of Verona, MS. xv (13). This is full of abbreviations not found in contemporary manuscripts containing purely literary or religious texts. Cf. W. Studemund, Gaii Institutionum Commentarii Quattuor, etc., Leipsic 1874; and F. Steffens, Lateinische Paläographie2, pl. 18 (pl. 8 of the Supplement). The Oxyrhynchus papyrus of Cicero’s speeches is non-calligraphic and therefore not subject to the rule governing calligraphic products. The same is true of marginal notes to calligraphic texts. See W. M. Lindsay, Notae Latinae, Cambridge 1915, pp. 1-2.
[15.] Found only at the end of words in our fragment. Its use in the body of a word is, however, very ancient.
[16.] The C invariably has the two dots as well as the superior horizontal stroke.
[17.] The abbreviation is indicated by a stroke above the letters as well as by a dot after them.
11 [18.] An ancestor of our manuscript must have had tranq·, which was wrongly expanded to tranque.