Curiosities of the Royal Library at Dresden

from previous page: ...should have said that he published the compendium... which is all that still remains of Stephanus's large work, and which stems from Hermolaus Grammaticus at Constantinople—if the compendium we still have is not, in fact, merely an excerpt from that same work. On this occasion, I must also recall that Jo. Fabricius was deceived in his Historia Biblioth. Fabric. History of the Fabrician Library, T. II. p. 368, when he wrote that Xylander published Stephanus de Urbibus, as we have it now, under the name of Hermolaus. Xylander intended to do so but did not accomplish it, letting it rest with the Aldine inscription. Regarding Pinedo's work, the opinions of scholars are divided. Colomesius says in his Bibliotheque Choisie Choice Library that this edition surpasses the previous ones in paper and print, but that he did not encounter much that was special in either the conjectures or the annotations. Pinedo certainly shows much reading, but only in quite common materials. As for the improvements, one can call few of them successful, and for these, he is mostly indebted to Jo. Hartungus, whom he does not always cite. On the other hand, Colomesius praises him in another place, and even Abraham Berkelius does so in the preface to his Stephanus, with the words: "Nor should our friend, the Lusitanian, a most learned man whose name I withhold here to satisfy his overly modest request, be deprived of his praise, although his name is worthy of our commemoration. He translated the entire work of the epitomizer into Latin and augmented and illustrated it with a large volume of commentaries, etc."

Beyond the translation and the annotations, this edition also contains the Fragmentum Stephani de Urbibus & Populis, depromptum ex membranis perantiqvi codicis Bibliothecae Segvierianae a Samuele Tennulio. Cum Interpretatione & Notis Thomae de Pinedo. Fragment of Stephanus on Cities and Peoples, taken from the membranes of an ancient codex of the Seguier Library by Samuel Tennulius. With interpretation and notes by Thomas de Pinedo. This fragment was already printed previously and provided with notes by Tennulius and Berkelius. Following this fragment is Pinedo's Breviarium, seu Commentariolus Auctorum, eorum præcipue, qvos ad testimonium vocat Stephanus Breviary, or small commentary on the authors, especially those whom Stephanus calls to testimony, and this is, in my humble opinion, one of the best pieces of Pinedo's work. In it, he also treats very learnedly de Analogia Arithmetica & Intervallis circa Musicam on arithmetic analogy and intervals regarding music, on the occasion of Timotheus, poet and citharode. Furthermore, in this edition are found the Collationes Jacobi Gronovii cum Codice Manuscripto Stephani, ex Bibliothe- collations of Jacobus Gronovius with the manuscript codex of Stephanus, from the library...