Abstract

I Examined this MS. at Bamberg in the Christmas vacation of 1912-13 for the purposes of the forthcoming critical edition of Livy by Professor Conway and Professor Walters. In 1856 H. W. Heerwagen described it, and published a collation of the first book. Apart from that it has been until now neglected. Bekker had it sent to him at Leipzig about 1830 for the purposes of his text: on its way back it fell into Kreyssig's hands, but neither of them seems to have made any use of it. It was collated by J. G. Seebode in 1835–8 ; but no results were published. It is, however, curious that Weissenborn in his second edition, though quoting Heerwagen as his sole source of information about the MS., which he calls B, cites its readings regularly not only in Book I., but in Book II. also, up to c. 22; after this I only four or five scattered readings are cited. The source from which he ascertained these are not known; in any case, they are few and unimportant. Conway and Walterś apparatus will contain the first account of the MS. I ever given which approaches completeness. It has now been examined at every point where any of the other MSS. show any variation of the least importance from one another, or where the text has been for any other reason the subject of discussion.