PREFACE

...was carried over into the remaining editions up to the Commelinian edition of 1595. (I have not personally seen the one from 1591 which Fabricius commemorated.) Its author, Fr. Sylburgius, besides the Bruschiana edition, compared the manuscripts of Palladius—both the Palatine and now the Vatican ones—from which he corrected many passages, and elsewhere he enclosed in brackets words that were missing in the manuscripts; you can see these marks preserved in the Gesnerian edition. Subsequently, Casp. Barth, using a manuscript codex, annotated many things concerning Palladius, which Gesner had collected and placed, having extracted them from his vast work of Adversaria. I. Fr. Gronovius had compared a codex from the library of Leiden original: "Bibliothecae Lugd. Batavae" in August of 1637, and Abr. Gronovius had inscribed its readings into the margin of the Commelinian edition. I used this copy, aided by the kindness of that most learned man, Dav. Ruhnkenius. I. Fr. Gronovius himself had previously used those same readings to correct many places in Palladius within his books of Observations, from which Gesner placed the collected annotations of that eminent man. Gesner thought it was the same codex, namely the Vossian one, the readings of which Chr. Schoettgen used, having been excerpted by Iac. Perizonius; he suspected the same thing regarding a manuscript book acquired by Vlitius. Regarding the Gronovian book, I still have doubts; for I did not find a few readings of that book annotated by Gesner, which I deemed necessary to distinguish by the name of the Leiden Codex. Concerning the Vlitian book, I have nothing to affirm, except that...