RAbanus Maurus, Serrarius, Didacus de Celada, and Sanctius, have written on this Book. Celada’s Comment was printed separately at Lyons, 1664. the second Edition, in fol.
Joseph la Cerda, Bishop of Badajox, a Benedictine Monk, who died in 1645, made a Comment upon Judith. As did also Victorius Strigelius, James Zeigler, Frederick Nausea, Badwell and Grotius. La Cerda’s was printed at Lyons, 1653. two Volumes in fol. the second Edition after his Death. He was of Madrid; and died in 1645.
James Pamelius has written on the same Book; and his Comment is printed at the end of Rabanus Maurus’s Comment upon Judith, and in the second Tome of his Works, p. 263. of the Cologn Edition 1626, fol. He begins with a long Preface; wherein he defends the Authority of this Book, and the Truth of the History against those who question it, or have attacked it. He explains nothing in his Comment but what appears difficult to him. He was of Bruges in Flanders, born in the Year 1536. was advanced to the Bishoprick of St. Omer; and died in 1587. He may be said to be a Man of universal Learning; as is evident by his Notes upon Tertullian, and what he has written of the Liturgy.
The Reality of the History of Judith, by F. Montfaucon; printed at Paris, 1690, in 12mo. They who have not this Book relating to the Truth of Judith’s History, divided into three Parts, may see M. Du Pin’s Abridgment of it, in his Bibliotheque of the 17th Century, tom. 6. p. 294. See our Preface to the Book of Judith.
Fabric. Biblioth. Græc. t. 2. l. 3. c. 29. p. 741. Claude Thomassin has a Paraphrase in French upon Judith, at Paris, 1642, in 12mo. He published one likewise upon Tobit, in 1643, in 12mo.
Lucas Vellosus undertook a large Comment, but published only the first Tome; at Lions, 1649, fol. He was of Lisbon, a Jesuit; and died in 1653.
Nicolai Abram, S.I. de Juditha, t. 13. Phari, V.T. 1690.
Joan. Christopheri Artopæi, Meletema Historicum, quod narratio de Juditha & Holoferne non Historia sit, sed Epopæia; at Strasburg, 1694, in 4to. together with a Dissertation on Solomon’s Navigation. He was a German Lutheran, Canon of St. Thomas at Strasburg, and died in 1702.
James Ziegler has a chronographical Censure of Judith’s History; and Christian Kortholte a Disputation on the same Subject: this at Rostock, in 1663, in 4to. the other at Basil, in 1548, in fol.
Fabricius, in tom. 2. l. 3. c. 29. p. 741. of his Bibliotheca Græca, has made excellent Remarks upon this Book, which relate particularly to the different Oriental Versions of it, and what the Antients have said of it.
We shall finish this Article with Philip James Hartman, who made a dialectical Inquiry concerning the Truth of this History; at Koningsburg, 1671, in 4to. He was a German Lutheran, and lived at the end of the 17th Century.