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==Editions== A manuscript of the text was rediscovered in [[Vienna]] in 1442 by the Italian humanist [[Enea Silvio Piccolomini (humanist)|Enea Silvio Piccolomini]].{{sfn|Thomas|Gamble|1927|loc= Pp vi, 202, 59}} Its ''[[editio princeps]]'' was issued in 1515 by [[Konrad Peutinger]], followed by many other editions.{{sfn|Smith|1870|loc= "Jornandes"}}<!-- should be very easy to point to subsequent editions, please contribute to find biblographical records and earlier online versions--> The classic edition is that of 19th-century [[Germany|German]] [[classical scholar]] [[Theodor Mommsen]] (in ''[[Monumenta Germaniae Historica]]'', ''auctores antiqui'', v. i.). The best surviving manuscript was the ''Heidelberg manuscript'', written in [[Heidelberg]], [[Germany]], probably in the 8th century, but this was destroyed in a fire at Mommsen's house on July 7, 1880. Subsequently, another 8th-century manuscript was discovered, containing chapters I to XLV, and is now the 'Codice Basile' at the Archivio di Stato in Palermo.<ref>Lowe, C.L.A. XII.1741: 'saec. VIII, 2nd half'</ref> The next of the manuscripts in historical value are the ''Vaticanus Palatinus'' of the 10th century, and the ''Valenciennes manuscript'' of the 9th century. Jordanes' work had been well known prior to Mommsen's 1882 edition. It was cited in [[Edward Gibbon]]'s classic 6 volumes of ''[[The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire]]'' (1776), and had been earlier mentioned by [[Degoreus Whear]] (1623) who refers to both Jordanes' ''[[Romana (Jordanes)|De regnorum ac temporum successione]]'' and to ''De rebus Geticis''.<ref>{{citation |title=De Ratione Et Methodo Legendi Historias |author=Degoreus Whear |author-link=Degoreus Whear |year=1623 |url=http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/whear/text.html}}</ref>
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