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De Natura deorum

Chapter 34

C. ms 790 Dd. xiii. 2, in the Cambridge University Library,

15th cent. Finely written on parchment, folio. See the Catalogue of the ss preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge, 1507. The ms was written “per manus Theodorict Nycolai Werken de Abbenbroeck (in 8, Holland): liber explicit anno domini moccc4 alias 1444.” It is the Cod. Cantabrigiensis of Davies, who says of it on 1 20, “codex est perparvi pretii,’ but it has some excellent and unique readings. [A remarkable feature of this Ms is the frequency of small alterations, either in the order of the words, or in the words themselves, as igitwr for ergo &ce. Ed.] It is divided into chapters, Book 1 into the prologue (which absurdly ends with the word repellendi in ch. 3 § 5) and 62 chapters; Book 11 into 68, and