9, of the early eleventh century, the excellent MS.

at Florence which contains Sophocles, Aeschylus and Apollonius Rhodius.

This is far the best authority for the text (here denoted by L).
The Guelferbytanus of the thirteenth century, which closely agrees with another Laurentian, XXXII.

16, of the same date (here denoted by G and L^2 respectively).
There were in the early eleventh century two types of text, the first being best known to us by L, the second by G and L^2 and the corrections made in L.Quotations in the Etymologicum Magnum agree with the second type and show that this is as old as the fifth century.

Besides these there are, of inferior MSS., four Vatican and five Parisian which are occasionally useful.