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73 1. To PETER WINCKEL Vita Erasmi p. 161. «Gouda. ) Lond. xxxi. 4: LB. App. 506. (1484 fin.) [This letter is possibly that mentioned in Lond. xxiy. 5, LB. App. 442, as written to Winckel by Erasmus in his fourteenth year. It seems to refer to the time of guardianship, and to the boys’ anxiety about their father’s property ; and as such, Winckel may well have been nettled at receiving it, especially if the property was not well secured. The incident is more fully narrated in the De Conscrib. Epist. (LB. i. 347 E). In copying that passage in the Gouda MS. 1324, f. 108 v° (see App. 9) Hand A adds in the margin: ‘Erat magister Petrus Winckel.’ _Erasmus’ estimate of his own age does not accord with 1466 as the year of his birth (see App. 2) ; but the letter may be placed with considerable probability after the return from Deventer. ] ERASMVS ROTERODAMVS MAGISTRO PETRO VVINCKEL, TVTORI QVONDAM SVO S. VEREOR et vehementer timeo, ne terminus breuis et currentis spatii res nostras nondum in tuto locatas, sed iam pridem, etsi sero, locandas inueniat. TIT. ERASMvS] Merula, like the Gouda MSS., has it so; but the evidence shows that Erasmus in his youth spelt his nameHerasmus. The earliest authentic examples give this form, Epp. 40, 43-7, 49, 104, 126, 127, cf. Ep. 152. Besides these, in his poem to Gaguin de suis Satis in Herman’s Sylua Odarum, 20 Jan. 1497 (Ep. 49), he styles himself Desyderius Herasmus Rotterdammensis, the first authentic use of the praenomen; and Herasmus occurs frequently throughout the book. He is Herasmus in Cornelius Gerard’s letter to Gaguin printed in Bocard’s edition of Gaguin’s History, gr Mar. 149% (Ep. 45); andin Bost’s letter to Gerard (1499 ?) printed by Molhuysen (Cornelius Aurelius, p. 27). The earliest authentic use of Erasmus is in 1503 (Epp. 173, 174); and Roterodamus first appears in 1504 (Epp. 179, 180). Herasmus Roterdamus still survives in the reprint of the first edition of the Adagia, Paris, lo. Philippi, 1505 ; but after that Erasmus discards it. Cf. Epp. 182, 187, 188. The full form Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus occurs first in the second edition of the Adagia, Paris, J. Badius, 24 Dec. 1506. That the change is found just at the time when Erasmus was beginning to make progress in Greek (cf. App. 6) confirms Beatus Rhenanus’ statement (iv. 546-9) that in adopting a new form ALLEN for his name at the opening of his literary career he had a Greek derivation in his mind. Herasmus is retained by Cornelius Gerard even in his later writings ; cf. MSS. in the Univ. Library at Leiden, Vule. 66 and Letterk. 743. It is also found in the pirated edition of the De Ratione Studii, 20 Oct. 1511, see Ep. 66; in Herasmi Roterodami Silua Carminum, edited by Snoy, Gouda, 18 May 1513; in Despauterius’ Ars Epistolica ex Dato... Herasmo excerpta, Paris, J. Badius, 24 June 1513; in a letter from Mountjoy to Wolsey, 8 Sept. 1515, printed by Mr. Nichols (ii. 210) ; in a poem of Bartholinus, composed in the spring of 1517, Deventer MS. gt, f. 116, E. p. 197, LB. App. 392, where the two printed versions however have dropped the H; and in a letter from Wimpfeling, 19 Feb. 1520. EE. 1. See also p. 234. For Hierasmus see Ep. 46. VVINCKEL] was master of the Gouda school, and had been appointed by Gerard as principal guardian for Peter and Erasmus (ii. 47). In 1507 he was Vice-Pastor of Gouda (van Heussen, Hist. Episcopatuum Belgii, ì. 305). On 13 Feb. 1505 he witnessed a will as ‘ Magister Petrus Iohannis Winkel, ecclesiae Goudensis pro tune vicecuratus.” NAKG. 1847, p. 147.
