HISTORY OF RARE PHYSICO-MEDICAL BOOKS

I. II. with manuscript notes by Joseph Scaliger.

This most excellent codex, which is preserved in the most splendid Augusta Library original: "Bibliotheca Augusta", the eternal ornament of our city, deservedly leads the procession, and it is one and unique. For although I do not wish to commemorate this Aldine edition itself, which is rare in itself and was recently sold at the auction of the Platnerian Library in Leipzig for the price of sixteen thalers; it is permitted to contemplate this Scaligerian codex of his, which is at hand.

Therefore, as far as its external form and history are concerned, it consists of two sufficiently thick volumes, in French binding, and with an inscription on the decorated spine:

Above the title of the book itself, we read the words written by the hand of A. E. VORSTIUS, who once preserved it, as we shall hear: From the testament of the Most Illustrious Joseph Scaliger, my godfather. Under the title, however, we see these words written by the hand of Marquhard Gudius:

Whoever sees these books of Galen
Turned by the learned hand of SCALIGER,
Know that they were redeemed at a huge price
By him who corrected many faulty things here.
This deletion gave them their value.