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No changes have been made to the Ruskin Library Transcript T7B, even changes that might seem obvious. Some of the material is printed in the Collected Works, but that too has been left as in T7B, though references are given. Only insertions and words struck through have been noted.
It does not read or look as if Ruskin is here taking notes on the manuscripts in the library. Perhaps he had taken notes in another notebook as he worked through the manuscripts; perhaps he is noting passages identified by Rawdon Brown and Giovanni Battista Lorenzi. The latter seems more plausible, as there are occasions when he appears to change his mind about the reading of the manuscript while writing these pages. See Works, 9.xxiv, Works, 9.420, and in particular Works, 9.459 where Rawdon Brown is thanked by Ruskin for directing him to ‘passages elucidatory of my subject in the MSS. of St. Mark’s Library’. For the use made of these passages see Works, 10.351, Works, 10.352 and the Appendix on the Architect of the Ducal palace at Works, 11.243 and following.
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