[Sidenote: Description of the MS.]

The 'Anecdoton' (which loses its right to that name by Usener's
publication of it) was discovered by Alfred Holder in a MS. known as
Codex Augiensis, No. CVL, which came from the Monastery of Reichenau
and is now in the Grand-Ducal Library at Carlsruhe. The monks of the
fertile island of Reichenau (Augia Dives), in the Lake of Constance,
were celebrated in the ninth and tenth centuries for their zeal in the
collection and transcription of manuscripts. The well-known Codex
Augiensis (an uncial MS. of the Greek text of the New Testament, with
the Vulgate version in parallel columns) is referred by
palaeographers to the ninth century[96]. The Codex Augiensis with
which we are now concerned, and which is a copy of the 'Institutiones
Humanarum Rerum' of Cassiodorus, is believed to have been written in
the next succeeding century. On the last page of this MS. Holder
discovered the fragment--not properly belonging to the
'Institutiones'--to which he has given his name, and which is as
follows[97]:--

[Footnote 96: See Scrivener, Plain Introduction to the Criticism of
the New Testament, pp. 133-4.]

[Footnote 97: I have adopted the emendations--most of them the
corrections of obvious mistakes--which are suggested by Usener.]

[Sidenote: Contents of the Anecdoton Holderi.]

'Excerpta ex libello Cassiodori Senatoris monachi servi Dei,
ex-Patricio, ex-Consule Ordinario Quaestore et Magistro