[76] Vestibulum ante ipsum nobis hic quasi Hodegeta & Janus Patulcis excubat Philippus Labbaeus. Quoted from Morhof, Polyhistor, I, c. 18 (ed. Lübeck, 1747, I, 196). The first edition of the Polyhistor appeared in 1688.
[77] See Baillet, Jugemens des savans (Amsterdam, 1725), IIA, p. 24. This book was first published in 1685-1686. For Sallo's review see Le Journal des sçavans, Feb. 2, 1665.
[78] Morhof cites Placcius's plan in the passage quoted in n. [76] above.
[79] Sacra bibliothecarum illustrium arcana retecta (Augsburg, 1668. ICN), p. 344. He says of his additions: "Quam multa in ea [Bibliotheca bibliothecarum] Bibliothecarum pariter ac Authorum qui de iisdem scripsere nomina desideruntur, ex nostro hocce supplemento apparebit" (p. 351).
[80] A copy in the Bibliothèque nationale. For a bibliographical description see Augustin and Aloys De Backer and Carlos Sommervogel, Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus (nouvelle édition; Brussels, 1894), V, col. 1535, No. 44.
[81] See Reimann, Versuch, I, 227 and 229. There are copies of this book in the University of Chicago Library (in part, at least, a later edition) and my own library. Reimann's mention of the wretched Bibliographia shakes one's faith in his critical judgment. The Bibliographia, an unauthorized edition of J. H. Boecler's orientation lectures at Strassburg, was first printed in 1677 and reprinted in 1696. It deserved neither publication nor reprinting. In 1715 J. G. Krause added new materials from Boecler's lecture notes and improved the quality of the critical remarks without remedying the bibliographical defects. This new edition was entitled Bibliographica critica (Leipzig, 1715). There are copies of the 1677 and 1715 editions in the Newberry Library and in my own library.
[82] See Catalogus, p. [4]. He estimates the number of bibliographies in the Bibliotheca bibliothecarum at eight hundred and in his own book at fifteen hundred.
[83] See as examples the entries Rudolphus Hospinianus (Catalogus, p. 285) and Samuel Rachelius (Catalogus, p. 287).
[84] He writes Guilielmus Ersengrenius (Catalogus, p. 187). The name is Eysengreinus. He omits Labbé's incomplete reference to a philological bibliography; see note 10 in this chapter.
[85] In casually turning the pages of the Catalogus, I note Moroffius for Morhoffius (p. 39), the omission of Claudius Chelemont (p. 49) in the list of Cistercian bibliographers (p. 296), Christophorus Hemdrich for C. Hendreich (p. 45), Ioannes Seldemel for Ioannes Seldenus (p. 361). Alfonsus de Roxas (p. 9) and the Orden de la Merced are not mentioned in the bibliographies of religious orders (pp. 295-296).