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15 iussus mittat. Vale. Vita Erasmi p. 188. Lond. xxxi. 21: LB. App. 425. {Gouda ?) (1487 ?) 1. 11. Nasonem] 4. 4.3.65. For Erasmus’ early attraction to Ovid see Lond, zxy- LI, LB, 11085; 13. Christianum] Possibly Ioannes Christiani, fifth prior of Steyn, 1464—+8 Aug. 1496 (van Heussen, i. 194); perhaps ‘ dominus Ioannes’ of Ep. 20. 2. The monastery evidently possessed plenty of books; and the knowledge that his father’s books were there may haye drawn Erasmus to Steyn in preference to Sion (ii. 67).
