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names mentioned by Cuspinianus. This contains verbatim what Szamosközy men¬
tions : ,Crastonius Gorippus(!), qui libros Iohannidos scripsit, qui habentur in biblio¬
theca Budensi.”

It should be noted, however, that Szamosközy was not the only one to be blamed
for the misnaming, because Conrad Gessner’s well-known Bibliotheca universalis
also uses the name the same way, which was not changed in the Gessner editions
by Josias Simmler and Johann Jacob Frisius.””* The Transylvanian historian could,
therefore, have taken the variant from them, but as previously mentioned, it is
almost certain that he himself knew Gerbelius’s list of names.

294 GESSNER 1545; GESSNER-SIMMLER 1574; GESSNER-SIMMLER-FRIES 1583.

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