The number of extant manuscripts, however few, really does not allow scholars to infer how many ancient Latin manuscripts of a work survived to the ninth, the twelfth, or even the fifteenth century.

现存的手稿，不论数量多么少，也不能让学者推断一部作品的古代拉丁手稿有多少存活到了九、十二，甚至是十五世纪。