ABSTRACT
Over three hundred manuscripts record Prudentius’ poetry, in full or in part, registering the poet’s popularity and offering a large but sometimes complicated witness to what Prudentius wrote. The earliest manuscripts are the so-called Puteanus, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, Latinus 8084, dating to the early sixth century, which contains the Cathemerinon, Apotheosis, Hamartigenia, Psychomachia, and Pe. I through v.142; and the Ambrosianus, Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana D 36 Sup., from Bobbio, which was copied in the late sixth or early seventh centuries, with some parts owed to later centuries. The Ambrosianus was the first manuscript to include parts of Pe. X, copying vv. 1–250 and 454–1140, with the rest supplied by a later hand.
