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THE DEVENTER LETTER-BOOK 609 that the letters of Dorp and ‘other Belgians’ had no concern with Erasmus. The fact that Francius’ name is not mentioned by Leclere among those from whom he received new letters does not create a difficulty ; for the books were being sold after Francius’ death, and Leclere might have had the manuscript from the purchaser, who was perhaps Vander Aa, 17 more letters in Leclere’s Appendix can be traced as follows: App. 2 = Ep. 183 of this edition. 8: see Ep. 296 introd. 160: printed in the Lamentationes Obscurorum Virorum, 1518. 321 and 324: formerly autographs in the Town Library at Gouda; see I. Walvis), Beschryv. d. Stad Gouda (1713), i. pp. 218 and 251. Only the former now survives there. 326: printed in Gabbema’s Epistolarwm. . . centuriae tres, 1663. 346: printed in P. 359: autograph in the University Library at Leiden. 372: autograph in the Morrison collection. 374: autograph in the University Library at Leiden. 385: printed in Gabbema. 405 = Ep. 109 of this edition. 437 = Ep. 45. 475: printed in the Opera of Sir Thomas More. 514: Merula’s preface to O1. 516, 7: from sources indicated by Leclerc. 2 more, App. 378 and 384, from their character are not likely to have formed part of the collection which came into Leclere’s hands ; and thus 13 remain, App. 190, 315-7, 325, 330, 350, 364, 369, 370, 373, 375; 511, which nearly represent the 14 missing from his total. Of these App. 190 is the only one which by date could have belonged to the original letter-book. This identification cannot, however, be pressed ; since it is quite possible that the three autographs”, App. 359, 372, 374, were amongst those which were at one time sheltered within the covers of the Deventer letter-book. APPENDIX IX THE GOUDA MANUSCRIPTS In the Town Library at Gouda are two manuscripts, Nos. 1323 and 1324, which have a unique value in serving to authenticate the early correspondence of Erasmus published by Merula. Both are small quartos, 1323 consisting of 180 leaves! numbered up to 172, 1324 of 162 unnumbered. But from gaps which appear in the contents it is plain that some of the original leaves have been lost—in * For App. 315 and 317, which are Leiden Library in 1743 in Papenbroek’s printed in M. Gudii Epistolae, etc., ed. collection; see Molhuysen, op. cit., p. P. Burmann, Utrecht, 1697, Leclere 38. They have no trace of de la Faye’s states that he had Erasmus’ auto- numeration at the foot of the page. ‘ graphs. 1 ff, 7 and 39 are missing; there is 1 App. 359 and 374 came into the an unnumbered leaf between ff. 27, 2.
