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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 astonishing 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. 108
