The Birthday Book (De Die Natali)

144, paper, of square format, written in the fifteenth century, whose various readings, most accurately noted by himself, were communicated to me by Maur. Hauptius Moritz Haupt.

The readings of the codex kept in the Leiden library among the Vossianos Vossian collection historical codices of square format no. 11, written by a recent hand, were published in the Haverkampiana edition. I suspect this is the same one whose readings were added to the margin of the edition that arrived from the Uffenbachiana library (see bibl. Uffenb. III p. 36 n. 233) into the Dorvillian collection. For the readings of both codices conspire with each other very often; where they seem to differ, usually indeed readings are brought forward from one, while the other is silent, as happens in codices not accurately collated; it is only very rarely that a different reading from both is noted, which error is surely easy. To the same edition, Ianssenius added from Almeloveen a few readings of a certain codex, then his own and certain conjectures of Iosephus Scaliger Joseph Scaliger *). All these have been transcribed into an exemplar of the second Lindenbrogian edition, which exists in the Hamburg library, the use of which Christianus Petersen granted to me. G. I. Vossius described the emendations of Scaliger, the exemplar of which the Leiden library holds (see Burmann on Valesius's emend. p. 118, cf. Rutgers's lectt. Venus. c. 3).

I accurately collated the Vatican library codex no. 4498, parchment, thirteenth or fourteenth century, in

*) Perhaps excerpts of the written books were taken from this edition, which Wesselingius had (obss. II, 13).