PREFACE

Then, at the same time, I received from that same treasury a Louvain edition of 1474, which Gesner had examined through the eyes of others. This latter copy, having been transcribed from a unique and excellent codex, exhibited many clear and excellent readings for me in Palladius, and corrected nearly all the errors of the remaining editions. I quite often neglected to note the agreement of the editio princeps with my own ancient copy, because it arrived in my hands late, at the same time as the Louvain edition, when the commentaries were finally finished.

After Gesner, in the reprint of that same edition, Io. Aug. Ernesti added the readings of a manuscript codex, which is preserved at Erfurt in the Library of the Amplonian College, excerpted by the most learned man I. Fr. Herelius. Finally, I myself, besides the readings of the four editions of Crescentius mentioned before, used the variety of the Leiden codex, excerpted by the hand of I. F. Gronovius from Abr. Gronovius’s copy (which was communicated to me by the distinguished Ruhnkenius), and then also separately inscribed on the margin of Abr. Gronovius’s Commelinian edition, to which were added certain conjectures and emendations by I. Fr. Gronovius. I found few readings of the Cambridge codex, and those mentioned only for the first books of Palladius by Abr. Gronovius, with no information about the codex itself attached.

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