Historical and Critical Library of Rare Physical and Medical Books

COLLECTION ONE.

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

Joseph Scaliger, while dying at Leiden, bequeathed this work of two volumes by testament to Aelius Euerardus Vorstius, Professor of Medicine, his friend, by whose son, Adolphus Vorstius, Professor of Botany in the same Academy, it was also diligently kept while he lived; but upon his death in the year 1674 (e), when the entire Vorstian Library was immediately dispersed by the 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, fiercely competing in this matter with Professor Thysius, Prefect of the public library of Leiden, to whom, since that great Scaliger had bequeathed most of his other books, the Curators of the Academy had decreed that this Galen should be bought with public money and added to his other books.

To this is subscribed the name Marq. Gudius. From this incomparable man, who was once Counselor of State to the Most Powerful and Most Serene King of Denmark, and of the Supreme Tribunal and Government in the Duchy of Schleswig-Holstein, and who in his time possessed the most instructed and excellent of all private libraries, which also surpassed the libraries of many Princes in its abundance of ancient and most rare manuscript codices, the book, together with the remaining codices, in the year 1710, by the benefit of the most glorious memory of the late ANTON ULRICH, and at no small price, passed into the Augusta Library, a greatest ornament to it, as the most learned Director of this treasure today, the illustrious JACOB BURCKHARD, deals extensively with this matter in History of the Augusta Library, Vol. I. Wolfenbüttel, 1744. 4to. p. 262 et seq.

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