Rasaratnākara (manuscript)

of the Morellian edition and the Syntagma of Grotius, both of which once belonged to Petrus Burmannus Secundus Peter Burmann the Younger. In a copy of the Morellian edition, P. Burmannus, uncle of Secundus, added the Scholiast on Germanicus from a transcript by Nicolaus Heinsius, augmented with distinguished additions, together with the emendations of Cauchius from the codex of Graevius. In the copy of the Syntagma of Grotius, various readings and conjectures were noted in the margin by the same man, taken both from the notes of Grotius and from an ancient codex of the Leiden library—which I later discovered to be the same as the Grotius codex—as well as from the Putean codex of Paris, which agrees in most places with the book of Grotius. Burmannus also sprinkled in some conjectures of his own, 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 accrued to this edition through