The Egyptian Language Restored

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...the Morellian edition and the Syntagma of Grotius, both of which formerly belonged to Petrus Burmann the Younger. In the copy of the Morellian edition, P. Burmann, uncle of the Younger, noted the scholia of Germanicus from a transcript by Nicolaus Heinsius, increased by notable additions, along with the emendations of Cauchius from the Graevius codex. In the copy of the Grotius Syntagma, various readings and conjectures were added in the margin by the same man, derived both from the notes of Grotius and from an old codex in the library of Leiden—which I later discovered, however, to be the same as the one used by Grotius—and also from the Codex Puteanus of Paris, which agrees in many places with the book of Grotius. Burmann also sprinkled in some of his own conjectures that are by no means to be despised. I regret greatly that I could not use these resources for the greater perfection of this edition.

In the meantime, I may boast of another ornament that has come to this edition through...