INTRODUCTION 



traceable to Gaza's version. Schneider's 

 so-called Codex Casauboni he knew, ac- 

 cording to Wimmer, only from Hofmann's 

 edition. 



B. Editions 



H. Editio Heinsii, printed at Leyden, 1613 : founded 

 on Cam. and very carelessly printed, repeating 

 the misprints of that edition and adding many 

 others. In the preface Daniel Heins ^ pretends 

 to have had access to a critical edition and to a 

 Heidelberg MS. ; this claim appears to be en- 

 tirely fictitious. The book indeed contains what 

 Wimmer calls a farrago emendationum ; he remarks 

 that ' all the good things in it Heinsius owed 

 to the wit of others, while all its faults and 

 follies we owe to Heinsius.' Schneider calls it 

 editio omnium jjessima. 



Bod. Editio Bodaei (viz. of Joannes Bodaeus a 

 Stapel), printed at Amsterdam, 1644. The text 

 of Heinsius is closely followed ; the margin con- 

 tains a number of emendations taken from the 

 margin of Bas. and from Scaliger, Robertus Con- 

 stantinus, and Salmasius, with a few due to the 

 editor himself. The commentary, according to 

 Sir William Thiselton-Dyer, is ' botanically 

 monumental and fundamental.' 



' See Sandys, op. cif. p. 313 etc. 



