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 best manuscript I have collated, and I have collated many'. He has corrected the faulty Lyons text from Xylander and Casaubon, and freely revised the Latin version. There is also a full list of the Suidas extracts, and many parallels from Greek literature are noted. His own emendations, at more than one place, anticipate those of later critics. He does not mention Vaticanus A; but at one place he enters a variant which must be derived from that manuscript, viz. for, xii. 30.

In 1675 Holste's friend and patron Cardinal Francesco Barberini, nephew of Urban VIII, published an Italian version of the XII Books of M. Aurelius Antoninus. He notes at the end a number of variants from Vaticanus A, and I have thought it possible that Holste drew his attention to the manuscript when he had himself abandoned his projected edition. The book was part of Stefano Gradi's collection, and did not come into the Vatican until after Barberini's death.

In the second half of the eighteenth century J. P. de Joly, whose work is described below, obtained a collation of Vat. Gr. 1950 (A), from Winckelmann, by permission of Cardinal Alexandre Albani. He also secured collations of five of the Vatican excerpts, and of three Laurentian. He himself consulted Par. 2649. The results he published li