Cicero: Letters to Atticus, Vol. 2 of 3

by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The following abbreviations are used in the apparatus criticus:—

M = the Codex Mediceus 49, 18, written in the year 1389 A.D., and now preserved in the Laurentian Library at Florence. M¹ denotes the reading of the first hand, and M² that of a reviser.

Δ = the reading of M when supported by that of the [Pg ix]Codex Urbinas 322, a MS. of the 15th century, preserved in the Vatican Library.

N = the Codex ex abbatia Florentina, n. 14 in the Laurentian Library, written in the 14th or 15th century.

O = Codex 1.5.34 in the University Library at Turin, written in the 15th century.

P = No. 8536 of the Latin MSS. in the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris, a MS. of the 15th century.

Ant. = Codex Antonianus, used by Malaspina.

C = the marginal readings in Cratander's edition of 1528, drawn from a MS. which is lost.

F = Codex Faerni, used by Malaspina.

Z = the readings of the lost Codex Tornaesianus, Z^b denoting the reading as preserved by Bosius, and Z^l that testified to by Lambinus.