Le Gendre, abbi (cont.) 
—pflantzung frucht-tragender baume 
au6 dem frantzosischen ubersetzet, und mit anmerckungen 
vermehret durch Jan Commelin. (in: Aengelen, Pieter van. 
Der liber die zwblff raonaten des Jahrs verstandige garten- 
meister# Hannover, 1703) (Bib, Nat. Paris) 
This same German version seems to have been 
reissued in Van Aengelen, Leipzig & Wolffenbut- 
tel, 1734 (Dept. Agr.)j same, 1751 (Brit. Mus.); 
and other German editions more or less doubtful¬ 
ly recorded as Leipzig, 1715# Hannover, 1738# & 
1741 ; Leipzig & Wolffenblittel, 1754. 1763 # 1772. 
Above full title is from edition of Van Aen¬ 
gelen published Hannover & Wolffenblittel, 1734* 
which saems practically identical with that of 
1703 * Reference under abbreviated title appears 
in Cat. Bib. Nat. 31 j 263, under Commelin, Johan¬ 
nes. This is probably the work signified by Se- 
guier, p.364, as "in germanicam cum notis A Jo¬ 
anne Commelino", and by Burchardt, 15i385* with 
title: "Der wohlbestellte gartenbau" (1703)» 
This is also evidently the version meant by 
Dochnahl, p.44* which he supposes to have been 
published Wolffenblittel, I 666 ; but there is no 
evidence of any German translation of Le Gendre 
of such an early date. It may have been assumed 
that this work, which was found in so many 18th 
century editions of Van Aengelen, had always ac¬ 
companied Greflinger's original translation of 
that book, which first appeared in I 663 . 
This translation has nothing in common with 
that of Gerold Edlebach, Zurich, 1679* and noth¬ 
ing is known of the translator. The implication 
of many of the entries is that Commelin did the 
German translation, but this is not determined. 
It is quite certain that he rendered this work 
into Dutch, and in the German editions that fol¬ 
low, there are many traces of the additions sup¬ 
posed to have been made by him, so that oven if 
the German title did not contain his name, there 
would be reason to suspect a connection between 
them. But as we do not find that Commelin wrote 
in German, it is improbable that he should have 
rendered the French or Dutch into that language. 
' Moreover, the Dutch version was not issued till 
after the death of Greflinger (ca. 1677 ), so the 
latter could not have made a German translation 
from it, and we can hazard no supposition as to 
the actual translator. (MFW) 
