The Transmission and Publication of the <i>Attic Nights</i>
Extract Manuscripts Gellius is by no means the worst-preserved of ancient authors, yet his transmission leaves much to be desired.1 Apart from loss book 8, familiar damage beginnings and ends has affected respectively preface 20.2 The chapter-summaries, which in fourth century were still their place at end preface, subsequently distributed precede corresponding books; all those 19 some others are lost. There one manuscript surviving a fragmentary state antiquity: A Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 24, s. iv, underneath Vulgate Old Testament, Tobias–Job (MS L Württembergische Bibelanstalt edition); contains (amidst else) fragments books 1–4 including 1. 3. 1–7 quod (otherwise found only β) with lemmata 17–18; bears traces Hertz’s liquid ammonium sulphide.3 At point between Macrobius Carolingian age, book...
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