Author: BURMAN, P.]
Title: Chrestomathia Petronio-Burmanniana; sive cornu-copiae observationum eruditissimarum & ante plane inauditarum, quas vir illuminatissimus, rerum omnium, & multarum praeterea aliarum, peritissimus Petrus Burmannus congessit in Petronium Arbitrium. Accessit specimen latinitatis novae Romanis incognitae, e notis Petri Burmann ad Petronium.
Description: Florentiae, Sumtibus Societatis, (=Amsterdam) 1734. 202 pp. Laced vellum. (occasional waterstain in outer margin) Strong criticism of Burmannus' Petronius edition, attributed to Isaac Verburg (1680-1745) rector of the Latin School in Amsterdam, and Tiberius Hemsterhuis (1685-1766), but: "Dat hij (Hemsterhuis) aandeel heeft gehad aan de satire op Burman Chrestomathia Petronio-Burmanniana wordt door Crane ontkend." (NNBW.I/1071). Schweiger II/725

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