 It is preserved in two tenth-century manuscripts, "Codex Vaticanus Graecus" 1818 (= A) and "Codex Laurentianus Sancti Marci" 304 (= B; AD 994).Neither contains the earliest recension nor the complete text, but rather two different abridgements.The manuscript evidence and citations in later works suggest that the original title was simply τὸ Ἐτυμολογικόν and later τὸ μέγα Ἐτυμολογικόν.