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Excerpt from Sancti Augustini Vita Scripta a Possidio Episcope: Edited With Revised Text, Introduction, Notes, and an English Version
I take this opportunity of expressing my gratitude to Dean A. F. West for his constant help and guidance in the prepara tion of this edition. It was begun at his suggestion and has been continually under his direction. I am further indebted to Professor J. H. Westcott for assistance on certain law terms, to Professor Duane Reed Stuart for his thorough criticisms, especially of the text, and also to Professor P. Van den Ven and Dr. R. J. Deferrari for valuable suggestions in the recon struction of the text. Owing to war conditions abroad it was impracticable to examine the mss. Of the Vita in the libraries Where they are deposited. Accordingly ten of the older mss. In the Bibliotheque 'nationale and the Vatican were se cured in photostatic copies, under the supervision of M. Henri Omont, Conservateur des Manuscrits, and of the late Director Jesse Benedict Carter and Professor Albert W. Van Buren of the American Academy in Rome. Thanks are also due to Mr. Gordon W. Thayer, Librarian of the J. G. White Collec tion, Cleveland Public Library, for providing me with notices of certain mss. Of the Vita from catalogues otherwise un available. The map was prepared by my friend Dr. W. E. Cockfield on the basis Of the map in Volume VIII of the C ar pus Inscriptionum Latinarum.
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