PREFACE

...in the Catalog of the Heinsian Library (Part I, page 179, Leiden, 1683), we read of a Cologne Palladius of 1536, mentioned as having been collated with two codices by Ioa. Vlitius. Gesner placed the readings of Politianus, which had been excerpted from manuscript codices and transmitted by Brenckmann, who additionally noted the readings of the first editions with diligence; I, however, finally added the Bruschiana edition myself, as I did with Cato, Varro, and Columella. Chr. Schoettgen advised that the Leipzig Palladius in the Pauline Library is a barbaric abridgment with this title: Palladius's book abbreviated by Gotfridus, the first treatise on the planting of trees, etc. The Palladius of the Rhedingerian Library in Wroclaw, which is divided into titles—the arguments or rubrics of which are interspersed among the titles themselves, with the names of the authors Rutilius and Emilianus written—was mentioned incidentally by Gesner. Conr. Schwarzius seems to have examined the same codex even earlier; one may conjecture this from his annotation to the Epistle of Palladius prefaced to Book XIV. Regarding that Gotfridus, who was mentioned incidentally before, I should like to note the suspicion of whether this might perhaps be Galfridus or Gaufridus de Vino salvo, whom Loescher reports in History of the Poets of the Middle Ages original: "Histor. Poëtar. medii aevi" (page 856) to have written a similar economic book. I also see that Haller, in Botanical Library original: "Biblioth. botanic." (Vol. II, page 636), commemorates this title of a manuscript book from the Sloane library, number 8786: Of the tilling and grafting of trees after Godfrey upon Palladius de agricultura.