INTRODUCTION
Maximus Tyrius, Philosophumena,[1] fols. 408–518v.
Alcinous, Dogmata Platonis, fols. 519–41.
Aristotle: De Motu Animalium,[2] fols. 542–5v.
Fols. 271–404v (except 337a) are in the third hand, dated late fourteenth or early fifteenth century.
Subsidiary evidence is derived from the many collections of excerpts from Marcus Antoninus, dating from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, contained in the following:
D. Codex Darmstadtinus 2773, misc. Gr., XIVth cent, fols. 348V-358V,[3] containing: i. 7–16 (om. parts of 15 and 16); ii. 1–17 (om. δῆλα . . . δέχται ch. 15); iii. 1–6; iv. 2–4, 7, 8, 19–21, 35, 36, 43, 46, (viii. 55, ii. 3 εἰ δόγματα . . . τῷ θεῷ), 47, 50 (part); v. 1–6, 9, 10, 14, 28, 31, 33; vi. 1–12, 15 (ὤσπερ εἴ τις to end), 16–19, 21, 22; vii. 28, 29 (part), 55, 59–61 (part), 63, 70, 71, 74; viii. 8–10, 12, 36, 50, 51, 54, 55 (iterum); ix. 2–7, 21–5, 29–31 δικαιότης δέ, where the manuscript breaks off, some folios having been lost.
There are a good many omissions of sentences, and the sense is sometimes paraphrased. The actual proportion of lines in D to the lines in the modern text (between i and ix. 31) is 2:5 (roughly 1,026 out of 2,621 lines).
In fol. 354, among the excerpts from Marcus, occur two fragments (24 and 33) of Epicuri Allocutio, which is contained in Vat. Gr. 1950. The codex has extracts from Maximus Tyrius and Alcinous, besides much else.
C. Excerpts, preserved wholly or in part, in codices which also contain Stobaei Eclogae, Theoctisti Sententiae, Aristoxenus, Fragment on Gyara.
Cα Cβ Vaticanus Graec. 955, 954
- ↑ Hobein, Maximus Tyrius, Leipsic, 1910, p. xi, note 1, p. xl. It is remarkable that, in the first decade of the XIXth century, no one working on Marcus Antoninus appears to have realized that Vat. Gr. 1950 was then in Paris. See the list of manuscripts taken from Rome to Paris, Recensio ms. cod. Leipsic, 1803, p. 76.
- ↑ Schenkl, M. Antoninus, 1913, Praef. p. xi says De Animalium Incessu, but in fact it is De Motu, beginning περὶ ζῴων κινήσεως.
- ↑ First collated by Werfer, Act. Phil. Monac. iii. 3, 1822, p. 417; described by Voltzx and Cronert, Centralbl. für Bibl. xiv, p. 558.
