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  1. A Companion to Classical Texts, Oxford, 1913, p. 244.

  2. Berlin, 1887–1889.

  3. The Greek and Latin Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt, 2nd edn, Ann Arbor, 1964.

  4. http://cipl93.philo.ulg.ac.be/Cedopal/MP3/DBResult.aspx?numNot=01,283.000. Accessed 12 May 2015.

  5. A. Franceschini, Giovanni Aurispa e la sua biblioteca, Padua, 1976, p. 134.

  6. N. G. Wilson, From Byzantium to Italy, London, 1992, p. 40. According to R. Sabbadini, Le scoperte dei codici greci e latini ne’ secoli XIV e XV (revised edition by E. Garin), Florence, 1967, p. 61, Gonzaga asked Domenico Grimaldi, who was going to Constantinople, to find a copy, but we do not know if the request was successful.

  7. Greek Manuscripts in the Private Library of the Medici 1469–1510, Aberystwyth, 1996, p. 544.

  8. Codices graeci manuscripti bibliothecae Divi Marci Venetiarum II, Rome, 1985, pp. 137–9.

  9. M. Lowry, The World of Aldus Manutius, Oxford, 1979, pp. 229–32; Wilson, From Byzantium to Italy (n. 6 above), p. 127.

  10. Opus Epistolarum Des. Erasmi Roterodami, ed. P. S. Allen, H. M. Allen, and H. W. Garrod, X, Oxford, 1941, p. 144.

  11. C. Wendel, ‘Die griechischen Handschriften der Provinz Sachsen’, in Aufsätze Fritz Milkau gewidmet, ed. G. Leih, Leipzig, 1921, pp. 362–4. On the later use of these manuscripts see the paper by Roebuck in this volume.

  12. P. Eleuteri, ‘Noterelle sui manoscritti greci di Schleusingen e Zeitz’, Codices manuscripti, 27–8, 1999, pp. 43–4 (43).

  13. H. Schreckenberg, Rezeptionsgeschichtliche und textkritische Untersuchungen zu Flavius Josephus, Leiden, 1977, pp. 157–8.

  14. Personal communication.

  15. See C. N. Constantinides, and R. Browning, Dated Greek Manuscripts from Cyprus to the Year 1570, Nicosia, 1993.

  16. V. A. Mošin, and S. M. Traljić, Vodeni znakovi XIII I XIV vijeka, Zagreb, 1957. Watermark A, folios 62, 63, 78, close to ‘hache’ 4694 (1375); watermark B, folios 1–61, 64 etc., ‘fleur’ of the category 4268ff (1330–1385); watermark C, folios 142 etc. ‘arc’ of the category 331 (1353); watermark D, folios 235, 247, 280 ‘chien’, probably identical with 2529 (1370).

  17. On these two manuscripts, see A. Turyn, Dated Greek Manuscripts of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries in the Libraries of Italy, Urbana, Chicago and London, 1972, p. 239.

  18. J. Chrysostomides, Byzantium and Venice 1204–1453. Collected Studies, ed. M. Heslop and C. Dendrinos, Farnham, 2011.

  19. Other evidence of the reading of classical texts in the provinces is provided by MS Salamanca M 31, copied by John Kalliandres in 1326, almost certainly in Rhodes, because he is known to have held the office of chartophylax there in 1336. The island had been under the control of the Hospitallers since 1309. The MS contains Oppian, Halieutica, ps.-Oppian, Cynegetica and the three plays of Euripides that were prescribed in the normal school curriculum. Something of a contrast is provided by a letter, probably to be dated in the 14th century, in MS Vaticanus gr. 305, headed ‘From Meligalas to Frangopoulos.’ The writer asks his addressee to lend him his copy of Josephus, an author whom he has long tried to find without success. The text was published by F. J. G. La Porte du Theil, Notices et extraits des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Nationale et autres bibliothèques, VI, Paris, 1800, p. 511.

  20. On Callistus, see N. G. Wilson, From Byzantium to Italy (n. 6 above), pp. 112–13, 116–18.

  21. On Arlenius, see B. R. Jenny, ‘Arlenius in Basel’, Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde, 64, 1964, pp. 5–45.

  22. On Gelenius, see P. Petitmengin, ‘Gelenius (Sigismundus) (1497–1554)’, in Centuriæ latinæ II. Cent-une figures humanistes de la Renaissance aux Lumières, ed. C. Nativel, II, Geneva, 2006, pp. 337–51.

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Wilson, N. Observations on the editio princeps and Two Neglected Manuscripts of the Greek Text. Int class trad 23, 172–179 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12138-016-0399-1

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