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and the Grotian Syntagma, both of which once belonged to Petrus Burmannus the Younger. In the copy of the Morellian edition, P. Burmannus, the uncle of the Younger, wrote down the Scholia of Germanicus from a transcript by Nicolaus Heinsius, enriched with notable additions, along with Cauchius's emendations from the codex of Graevius. In the copy of the Grotian Syntagma, there are inscribed in the margin by the same man various readings and conjectures, drawn both from the notes of Grotius and from an old codex of the Leiden library—which I later discovered to be the same as the Grotian—as well as from the Parisian Puteanus codex, which agrees in very many places with the Grotian book; Burmannus also sprinkled in some of his own conjectures that are by no means to be despised. I regret greatly that I could not use these resources for the greater perfection of this edition.

Meanwhile, it is permitted to me to boast of another ornament that has been added to this edition through an Epistle