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Potmans Likely a contemporary colleague or book dealer brought me the Vicenza edition of Gaius Silvius.
The Illustrious Bondam Pieter Bondam (1727–1800), a Dutch historian and jurist
Thomas Muncker A 17th-century philologist known for editing mythographic texts made use of a parchment manuscript Codex membranaceusA manuscript written on skin/parchment rather than paper from the Leiden Library, which contained the Mythologies of Fulgentius and the Virgilian Contents A work interpreting Virgil's Aeneid as an allegory of human life along with the first two books of Martianus Capella’s On the Marriage of Philology, as he himself states in the Preface preceding Fulgentius and especially in the notes to Book 2, page 42. He noted the variety of readings from this superior Manuscript, for instance at Fable 3, chapter 24; he holds the Leiden Library Manuscript thus: Fable 14, page 74, note 12; Fable 22, page 82, note 8; page 86, note 2; Fable 31, page 88, note 9; Fable 43, page 106, note 8, etc.? page 232; Fable 93, page 242, note 14; 159, page 273, note 16.
Arntzenius Probably Pieter Arntzenius, a Dutch scholar in the Miscellanies.
Emendation of specific passages of Martianus Capella and Cicero by C. A. Heumann in the Leipzig Miscellanies, Volume 8, page 82 and following.
To be examined especially: Barthius in his Adversaria Caspar von Barth, a prolific German scholar; Salmasius Claude Saumaise, a famous French classical scholar in his Plinian Exercises; and other critics. Guyet’s Pappostaty; Argoli’s Notes on Panvinio’s "On Circensian Games"; Paschalius On Crowns; Dempster’s notes on Rosinus. In which places and by whom the hybrid original: "hybridae" - likely referring to the mixed prose/verse style of Martianus Capella has been corrected, see in the Collection of Authors, page 50.
Berger in the Wedding Panegyric, page 22.
The Wedding Hymns of Philology and Mercury, which the ancients
considered should be drawn as an image of the liberal arts and pleasant, fruitful studies,
and as they were accustomed to be explained in the schools, so that anyone
who held them fixed in their memory would be considered learned. This section was struck through in the original manuscript
Vossius, On the Latin Historians, Book 3, page 637.