[Footnote 9: The strokes over the two consecutive _i_’s on fol.
53v, l. 23, were made by a hand that can hardly be older than the
thirteenth century.]

There is a ninth-century addition on fol. 53 and one of the fifteenth
century on fol. 51. On fol. 49, in the upper margin, a fifteenth-century
hand using a stilus or hard point scribbled a few words, now difficult
to decipher.[10] Presumably the same hand drew a bearded head with a
halo. Another relatively recent hand, using lead, wrote in the left
margin of fol. 53v the monogram QR[11] and the roman numerals i, ii, iii
under one another. These numerals, as Professor Rand correctly saw,
refer to the works of Pliny the Elder enumerated in the text. Further
activity by this hand, the date of which it is impossible to determine,
may be seen, for example, on fol. 49v, ll. 8, 10, 15; fol. 52, ll. 4,
10, 13, 21, 22; fol. 53, ll. 12, 15, 16, 17, 20, 27; fol. 53v, ll. 5,
10, 15.

[Footnote 10: I venture to read _dominus meus ... in te deus_.

[Footnote 11: This doubtless stands for _Quaere_ (= “investigate”),
a frequent marginal note in manuscripts of all ages. A number of
instances of _Q_ for _quaere_ are given by A.C. Clark, _The Descent
of Manuscripts_, Oxford 1918, p. 35.]


[Sidenote: _Syllabification_]

Syllables are divided after a vowel or diphthong except where such
a division involves beginning the next syllable with a group of
consonants.[12] In that case the consonants are distributed between the