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Prisciani institutionum grammaticalium librorum XVII et XVIII, indices et concordantiae. Curantibus Cirilo Garcia Roman, Marco A. Gutierrez
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of Ferrières. About a thousand manuscripts exist, all ultimately derived from the copy made by
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