English translation by Andrew Burnett: [Do not take it ill, if I advise you that an error was made without any doubt by the typesetter in the name of the person, who decorated my Livy with his own hand. For he is called VAN DER BORCHT, not indeed Bocht [footnote: In the 1721 Hamburg edition, this mistake has been corrected. For this excellent artist, see Joachim de Sandrart’s Academy of Pictorial Art, f. 310, where he is called Henricus van der Borch, or Borchensis]. Nor indeed was he the antiquarian to Karl Ludwig, the Elector Palatine: but it was his son who had the same name and an equal understanding of antiquities. The father was a friend of the Earl of Arundel, who was most enthusiastic about antiquity, as you will be able to see from the following inscription, placed below the same man’s portrait, illustrated by the son, and engraved in copper by the most skilled Wenceslas Hollar, which I recently acquired by chance. … I have transcribed it, following the original orthography, and with the mistakes that were made. Of coins, which he with the greatest skill added to my Livy, there were 983; and of Greek and Latin inscriptions, 542. And I cannot pass over in silence, that I possess three other books illustrated by the same man’s work, and with similar images from antiquity. They are a Julius Caesar, Occo’s Coins, and the very rare work of a certain Italian, Discorso sopra le Medaglie by Sebastiano Erizzo. The last excels in the large number of coins struck in honour of the Roman Families. 13 August 1714. (fr)
