^{page 65 note 1} The Loeb edition by R. J. Deferrari and M. R. P. McGuire (4 vols., 1926–34, rpd. 1950–3), though most useful, did not represent a positive contribution towards the establishment of the text.

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^{page 66 note 1} Courtonne does not mention de Mendiéta's, D. Amand ‘Essai d'une histoire critique des éditions générates grecques et grécolatines de S. Basile de Césaré’, Rev. Ben. lii (1940), 141–161Google Scholar; liii (1941), 119–51; liv (1942), 124–44; lvi (1945–6), 126–73, which firmly established the sources used by the earlier editors.

^{page 66 note 2} Gnomon xxxi (1959), 126–128.Google Scholar

^{page 66 note 3} Gribomont, J., Histoire du texte des Ascétiques de saint Basile (Bibliotheque du Muséon, vol. 32), 1953.Google Scholar

^{page 66 note 4} Rudberg, Stig Y., Études, pp. 156–168, 195–200, 205–7.Google Scholar

^{page 66 note 5} Out of curiosity I collated the four letters of Basil contained in B.M. Add. MS. 34060, a canonical collection written partly in the twelfth and partly in the fourteenth century; the fourteenth-century portion is of Cretan provenance. In no case was any reading found which was unattested in the manuscripts used by Courtonne, and which has the remotest possibility of being right, Ep. 45 showed a rather eclectic text agreeing now with A, now with B. Ep. 46 appeared in a text so trivialized and interpolated that I had, not the patience to complete the collation. Ep. 115 showed a B-type text, very close to that of Coislin. 237. These letters were all in the fourteenth-century portion of the manuscript. Ep. 93, in the twelfth-century portion, appeared in an A. type text very close to that of Vatopedinus 72, one of the new manuscripts discovered by Rudberg. M. Richard, in an admirable article on ‘Florilèges spirituels grecs’, points out that many excerpts from Basil's letters are preserved in the Sacra Parallela attributed to John Damascene (Dictionnaire de Spiritualité, fasc. xxxiii–xxxiv [1962], 477).

^{page 66 note 6} Cf. Schmidt, C. and Schubart, W., Berliner Klassiker texte, vi. 21–37.Google Scholar

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