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Johann Georg Schelhorn the Elder (1694-1773) was a Lutheran pastor in
Memmingen, Bavaria, and according to his monographer, a polyhistor.° Since
he himself was a collector, part of his surviving correspondence consists of letters
written by and received from Hamburg antiquarians. Based on his interests in
church history and rare books, his work (Ergétz/lichkeiten aus der Kirchenhistorie
und Literatur” analyses three publications relating to our subject with astonish¬
ing thoroughness. These are: the first edition of Heliodorus’s Historiae Aetiopicae,"
the editio princeps of Diodorus Siculus Historiarum libri aliquot," and the 1621
edition of Fontius and Bonfini.*” Schelhorn describes the history of the codices
on which the editions are based, thus touching on the Bibliotheca Corvina items,
cites several publications in which the editions are analysed from various points
508 GéssnER 2004.
>% ScHELHo William Guthrie’s (1708-1770) and John Gray’s (1723?-1811) multi-volume history of the
world, published in English 1763-1764.
510 HELIODORUS (ed. OBsopoEus) 1534.; ScHELHORN 1763-1764, 835-840.
>11 Dı1oporus SıcuLus (ed. Ossopoeus) 1539.; SCHELHORN 1763-1764, 841-842.
512, Fontius—Remus 1621.; ScHELHORN 1763-1764, 2238-2240.
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