摘要：London, British Library Old Kings 13 CIV, dated to the fourteenth century by Georg Goetz, contains two consecutive pseudo- Suetonian texts. First, ff. 212v –213r, appears a list of Notae or Critical Signs, almost identical to the text in Monacensis Latinus 14429, ff. 122r–v, published by Kettner and discussed by Weber, who following Usener dates the MS to the tenth century. The London (L) and Munich (M) texts are closely related to Isidore, Etymologiae 1.21 (J, reported here from Lindsay’s OCT) and also to an unnamed Gotwicensis (G) published by Bessel, more distantly related to the Anecdotum Parisinum (Paris, Bibliothèque National Latinus 7530, ff. 28r–29r, published by Bergk and many others, also in part appearing in Casanatensis 1086, f. 64v, collated by Morelli, and even more distantly related to the Notae from Cava published by Reifferscheid in this journal. It is possible that yet another copy is in Boulogne-sur-Mer 44, as asserted by L.Traube; I have been unable to examine the MS or a copy of it, and Virginie Haudiquet of the Bibliothèque Municipal kindly but unsuccessfully tried to find the passage in the MS. The second passage in L, ff. 213r–v, is a list of animals and the sounds they make, of the type published by Reifferscheid as fragment 161 of Suetonius.1 The two passages in Lare of very different significance. The list of Notae adds to our knowledge of this family of manuscripts as well as to the manuscript tradition of Isidore, and clarifies some of the nomenclature of the signs, while highlighting the manuscript confusion. The second passage presents us with a creative scribe, trying to merge several types of catalogue into a unified text, without complete success. The result is something like a modern scholarly article in progress.
