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76 [1487 charius. animum, innumeris iam olim Id itaque si curaris, tam 35 delectarunt, studiosissimo. Quod noui. Quamobrem maiorem descriptas habes, illi commodes. Fidem habe, mi Petre, nunquam senties hominem et gratum et 21 illi scripsi : ille 01. defuisti LB. 24. defuisti] Leclerc’s correction seems unnecessarily forcible in view of Peter’s desertion in the contest with the guardians. See App. I. 32. Seruatio] See Ep. 4. 40. Iuuenalis] In a letter from Haarlem, 4 May (1490?) (Gouda MS. 1323, f. 3, ef. f. 5), Wm. Herman asks Corn. Gerard, then at Lopsen, to lend him a ms. ‘Iuuenalem magistri Petri Goudani.’ This is probably Winckel (cf. Ep. 1. tit.), and not Erasmus’ brother, (nulla in re) who can only have been ‘magister’ by courtesy ; he is addressed here, however, as ‘Dominus.’ The MS. was perhaps one of those written by Gerard the father, which seem to have formed part of his sons’ patrimony; cf. Ep. 1. 8 and 13. Peter is represented in Lond. xxiv. 5, LB. App. 442 as securing the greater part of the inheritance. There is no difficulty in supposing that Winckel as guardian may have afterwards acquired it from Peter.
