Specimen of a Historical and Critical Library of Rare Physical and Medical Books

On the other page of this leaf, Gudius noted these things which pertain to the history:

This Work of two volumes, Joseph Scaliger, dying at Leiden, bequeathed by testament to Aelius Euerardus Vorstius, Professor of Medicine, his friend; it was also diligently kept by his son, Adolphus Vorstius, Professor of Botany in the same Academy, while he lived. But when he was extinguished by death in the year 1674 (e), since the entire Vorstian Library was immediately sold off by his children at public auction, it was then redeemed by me for the price of sixty Belgian florins, which sum corresponds to twenty-four ounces of silver, while I struggled fiercely over that matter with Professor Thysius, Prefect of the public library of Leiden; for although the great Scaliger had bequeathed most of his other books to him, the Curators of the Academy had decreed that this Galen should be bought with public money and joined to his other books.

Subscribed to these is the name Marq. Gudius. Finally, from the library of this incomparable man—who was once Counselor of State to the Most Potent and Serene King of Denmark and of the Supreme Tribunal and Government in the Duchy of Schleswig-Holstein, and who possessed the most well-equipped and excellent of all private libraries of his time, which surpassed even many princely libraries in its wealth of the most ancient and rare manuscript codices—this book, along with the other codices, passed in the year 1710, through the benefit of the most glorious memory of the late ANTONIUS ULRICUS and at a not insignificant price, into the Augusta Library, as a great ornament to it, as the most learned Director of this present Augustan treasure, the illustrious JACOBUS BURCHARD, treats at length in his History of the Augustan Library, Vol. I, Wolfenbüttel 1744. 4to. p. 262. seqq.

(e) We rightly note that Gudius committed an error of writing here. For Vorstius died in the year 1663.