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Xx ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA
that the battle of Marignano (13, 4 Sept. 1515) is mentioned in Eov. i. 35. But
the news of the battle had certainly reached Basle by 2 Oct. (Ep. 360), and
perhaps earlier; and it is therefore by no means impossible that it should have
been known to the authors of Eov. in time for the insertion of it in one of the
later letters (Eov. i contains only 4r in all) and the publication of the book by
19 Oct. Bauch’s typographical arguments are discussed in the Centralblatt, xv,
pp. 490 seq. by Steiff; who enforces his former and seemingly unanswerable
demonstration (Buchdruck in Tiibingen, pp. 217, 8n.), that the first edition of
Eov. was printed by Gran at Hagenau.
P. 164, Ep. 373 introd. Dr. M. R. James has shown that the scribe of the
Leicester Codex was a Greek, Emmanuel of Constantinople (xv°. med.);
and that the MS. was perhaps written by him in Cambridge after 1472:
see Journal of Theological Studies, v (1904), pp. 445-7, and xi (Jan. 1970),
P 182 117, 20. I. p. 14. 5 seq. should have been cited in addition to the
references to Iv.
P. 202. Nic. Basell was a friend of Mutianus in 1503 and probably earlier; see
RE. 87 and MRE}, 293 = MRE?, 2 and 302.
P. 209, Ep. 395 introd. Ellenbog’s correspondence with Gallus Knöringer,
Prior of the Benedictine monastery of St. Magnus at Füssen in Bavaria,
is copied in a manuscript volume belonging to Knôringer ; which is now
the property of the Ponickau estate at Füssen,
P. 295, 1.98n. For xv°. read xv°. ,
P. 390, Ep. 493 introd. From the frequent agreement between C! and 8,
extending even to the reproduction of errors (cf. Ep. 522. 52), I incline to
think that Budaeus must have used C1, and not his own manuscripts,
as the basis for the text of those letters (Epp. 403, 435, 493, 522) which he
printed in BE’. Similarly for Ep. 583 he seems to have used as his basis
either D° or F; cf. Ep. 583. 158 and 204.
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1. Deventer Letter-book, f. 121 y°, written by Hand A in its straight
and curved form; Ep. 370 ; È i è E a .
In the manuscript the difference of ink makes it easy to discern
the operations of the xvii, editor (not Leclerc: presumably De
la Faye); e.g. in 1. 1, the enlargement of the initial o of
octobribus, in l. 4 the alteration of o to u, and the addition
of c (L 5) to perontari. To him are due also the heading
(copied, without scrupulous accuracy, from the foot of the
preceding page), the marginalia, the underlines, the accents
over a and e, and the commas of upright form (e.g. after
quidem, l. 2; after perlatae, 1. 3).
2. Deventer Letter-book, f. 164, written by Hand A in its curved
form, and corrected by Erasmus; Ep. 481 x A E o 371
In1.2 the stroke above qua is scratched through by both Hand A
and the xviii°. editor. In the margin Erasmus writes hgmodi
phi, which is expanded and altered by the xviic. editor. In
1. 11 the last letter of sive added by Erasmus is made by the
xvili°. editor to t; but e seems clear.
3. Diptych of Erasmus and Gilles; from the originals by Quentin
Metsys, in the collections of Count Grégoire Stroganoff and
thestaniofRadnor ‘> con fi vil gii A I Snia JE LG
4. Deventer Letter-book, f. 211, written by Hand B and corrected
by Erasmus, with the numeration of Hand C or D in the top
right-hand corner ; Ep. 588 x y $ 3 p o
Erasmus’ obliterations are usually intensified with a finer pen
by the xvilie, editor; who in ll. land 10 alters i into j, and in
1. 10 adds the accent over Erasmus’ correction a.
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