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THE GOUDA MANUSCRIPTS 613 came into the Gouda Library with Hermann Lethmaet’s other papers; but Dr. van Ysendyk, the Town Librarian, has traced them back as far as a catalogue of 1638. The ‘Codex Adagiorum niger’ also cannot be identified. But if there is any truth in the suggestion of Lethmaet’s ownership, he cannot have written them himself; for Hand A differs entirely from the handwriting of two autograph letters by him in the Breslau Town Library®. Dr. Hippe, of Breslau, to whom I owe this judgement, suggests, however, that moy may have been written under his direction by a professional scribe. APPENDIX X MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS 1. (TuE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE} TO LorRD MoUNTJOY. Record Office: State Papers, Henry VIII, $ 5, f. 21. (Cambridge ?) _ C1511 or 1513?) [The letter which follows has been attributed by Brewer with good reason to the University of Cambridge ; for the circumstances under which it was probably written see Ep. 233. 8n. It is plain from the correction necessitated in I. 15 that the manuscript, though contemporary and well written, is only a copy.] Sr nulla in te ad Grecas litteras auxilii spes subesset, nobilissime Montioie et Mecenas noster vnice, vel necessitas nos stimulare nunc deberet vt sepius et iterum opem imploraremus tuam. Eo enim peruentum est vnde sine tuo et aliorum beneficio mouere nobis non liceat. Immensum stipendium est quod preceptori Greco sumus 5 polliciti. Vires nostre exigue arce tantum non exhauste professorem non nisi numerata pecunia detinent. Hane qui nos persoluemus, qui non habemus? Ita aut litterarum Grecarum iactura faciunda, aut onerandi amici, quorum fauori non frustra vt speramus credentes, fidem nostram maiore quam pro viribus summa onerauimus. Et nisi ro tu beneficii tui magnitudinem dandi celeritate ornare velis, iam iam labascunt promissa nostra. Vnicum remedium tua amicitia est, quam nobis debere te ipse pro summa tua modestia non modo non inficias ire sed predicare quoque lubentissime sustines. Nisi moderacionem animi tui notam haberemus, non diceremus hoc esse tempus 15 quo de nobis vel non rogatus benemereri occupares. Generis nobilitatem parentibus debes ; Academie nostre, vt ipse dicere soles, animi. Parentibus in extrema necessitate positis opem non afferre impium putatur. At quanto anima corpori est prestantior, tanto 7. detinet MS. 15. animi correi : ad MS, 8 Codex Rehdigeranus 254, Nos. 96 and 97.
