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Rh the Oppenheim division of the Bodleian library at Oxford.

This is a reprint of the first (Constantinople) edition; it repeats faithfully all the mistakes of that edition. This is one of the rarest of the rare books printed in Brisgau.

This edition was probably reprinted from that printed in Brisgau, and formed (as well as that quoted below, No. 13) part of the “Respublicæ Elzevirianæ”, a collection well known to the amateurs of those bijoux of the celebrated Dutch printers. Constantin l’Empereur, the learned editor, changed but very few words in the text, and reserved his emendations for the notes, with which the edition quoted under No. 10 is enriched.

There are some pretended ameliorations in this edition, but they are founded upon mere suggestion, and at best upon the translations of Arias Montanus and l’Empereur.