Aratus of Soli: Phenomena and Weather Signs

...and the Grotius Syntagma, both of which formerly belonged to Petrus Burmann the Younger. In a copy of the Morellian edition, P. Burmann, the uncle of the Younger, inscribed from a transcript by Nicolaus Heinsius the Scholiast of Germanicus, augmented with notable additions, together with the emendations of Cauchius from the Codex of Graevius. In the copy of the Grotius Syntagma, various readings and conjectures were added in the margin by the same man, derived partly from the notes of Grotius, partly from an ancient codex of the Leiden library—which I later discovered to be the same as the Grotian codex—and partly from the Parisian Puteanus codex, which agrees in many places with the Grotian book; Burmann also sprinkled in some of his own conjectures, which 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