Chapter 31
I. Harleian ms 2511, 15th cent. Parchment quarto very
clearly written. Followed by the De Divinatione of which Book 1 is styled “ De Fato,” at the end of this is /inis, 1404; then comes “ De Essentia Mundi,” at the end TEAOC. This is a very worth- less MS with constant omissions and blank spaces and scems_ to have been written by a scribe ignorant of Latin. After Ch. 10 of Book 1, I have only noted the more extraordinary readings. It agrees mainly with Moser’s Codd G. and K. (Written in Italy.)
K. Harleian ms 2622, end of the 11th cent., parchment, medium quarto; unfortunately ends with the word “ Nec” in 1 114. Preceded by “Paradoxa Stoicorum Sex.” Though the transcriber is careless and the MS. is full of his corrections, yet this is the best of the Harleian mss, often closely agreeing with B. and Cod. C. of Orelli. (Written in Flanders or Germany.) The united testimony of B and K is almost always decisive as to orthography.
