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The article consists of three parts. The first takes stock of the information currently available and reconstructable concerning the lost manuscript that the humanist Claude Binet claims to have found in the library of the cathedral of Beauvais and to have used for his edition of Petronian poems of 1579. The second part concerns a Petavianus manuscript that Riese considered lost and which instead can be identified in a manuscript of the Vatican library, of which the textual redaction referred to AL 88 is considered. The third part examines Binet’s working method to evaluate, where it is possible by the comparison with other manuscripts still available, to what extent the humanist philologist intervenes to modify the handwritten text according to his iudicium.