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An excerpt from the beginning of the INTRODUCTION: History of the Manuscripts ONLY three manuscripts of the Cynegetica of Nemesianus are in existence. Of these the best is Parisinus 7561, designated as A by Baehrens and Postgate. This MS. belongs to the tenth century. Parisinus 4839, designated as B by Baehrens, is also a manuscript of the tenth century but is so poor that its readings are of little value. The third MS. which we have is Vindobonensis 3261, designated as C by Baehrens, as by Postgate. This MS. is a work of the sixteenth centiory and contains, besides the Cynegetica of Nemesianus, the Cynegetica of Grattius and the so-called Halieutica of Ovid. Hence the history of this MS. is closely connected with that of the MSS. of Grattius and an extensive treatment of this has been given by H. Schenkl, Zu Grattius und anderen lateinischen Dichtern, Jahrb. f. class. Philol. Suppl. Bd. 24, 387 ff. The Cynegetica of Grattius and the Halieutica of Ovid are found in two old MSS. of the ninth century. The older is Codex Vindobonensis 277, fol. 55-73; the younger is Codex Parisinus 8071 (or Thuaneus) which contains only the first 159 verses of the Cjniegetica of Grattius. The readings of these two MSS. agree to such an extent that M. Haupt, who issued the first critical edition of Grattius and Nemesianus, suspected that the Parisinus was a copy of the Vindobonensis. L. Traube first expressed himself decidedly in favor of the dependence of the Parisian MS. upon Cod. Vindob. 277. This fact is recognized by Schenkl and by F. Vollmer. In the case of the Halieutica and the Cynegetica of Grattius our MS. of the sixteenth century, Vindob. 3261, is also an obvious copy of Codex Vindob. 277. From a note on the fly leaf this MS. claims to be the work of Actius Sincerus Sannazarius. There also exists another MS. of the sixteenth century, containing only the Grattius and the Halieutica, which is evidently the work of the same hand. From a comparison of the readings of these two MSS. Schenkl concludes that Sannazarius must have made two attempts at copying the old MS.; that the copy found in Vindob. 277, fol. 74-83, from its many lacunae and faulty readings, was his first attempt; not content with this he made a second effort at deciphering the old MS. and the results of this we have preserved in Codex Vindob. 3261. The question then arises as to whether the old Cod. Vindob. 277 originally contained also the Cynegetica of Nemesianus and whether it was this MS., containing all three works, which Sannazarius brought to Italy and from which the Aldine edition was printed. This we are led to believe from the words of George Logus who issued the Aldine edition in 1534. He professes that this edition is a copy made by a German youth, Aesiander, from the old codex of Sannazar: Aesiander quidem ex uetustissimo codice, quod nobilis et cultissimus nostri temporis poeta Accius Syncerus Sannazarius longobardicis Uteris scriptum ex Galliis seciun aliquando attulerat, quam potuit integre et incorrupte descripsit (i.e. Grattius) una cum autoribus illi coniunctis (i.e. the Cynegetica of Nemesianus and Halieutica of Ovid). According to the words of Logus, Aesiander copied the three poems from the old codex of Sannazar which he had brought from Gaul. We have other evidence supporting the fact that Sannazarius brought the three poems together to Italy. Lilius Gyraldus, Historia poetarum Dial. 4, says: Sed quod Cynegetica Gratius scripserit, Actius Sanazarus mihi aliisque pluribus asseruit et ostendit cum Neapoli animi gratia ex urbe profecti essemus: se enim ex Heduorum finibus atque e Turonibus detulisse opusculum de piscibus Ouidii et Cynegetica Gratii et Nemesiani. Id quod etiam suo scripto testatus est Pontanus quadam sua epistola ad ipsum Actitim et P. Summontius. From the letter of Pontanus to Sannazarius, to which Gyraldus refers...

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