Franciscus Junius, also known as François du Jon, was a pioneer of Germanic philology. As a collector of ancient manuscripts, he published the first modern editions of a number of important texts. In
François Junius (Michael Burghers, 1698, after Anthony van Dyck)
Isaac Vossius
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Isaak Vossius, sometimes anglicised Isaac Voss was a Dutch philologist scholar and manuscript collector.
Franciscus Junius (the younger)
…study the Codex Argenteus (or Gothic Bible). He first showed an interest in Gothic in 1654, and engaged in a study of the Codex Argenteus in 1654. Isaac Vossius entrusted the codex to Junius. Vossius had secured the codex from Queen Christina as part of a debt settlement. MS Junius 55 is a transcript Junius…
Variarum observationum liber, 1685
De motu marium et ventorum, 1663