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301 | TO WILLIAM BLOUNT, LORD MOUNTJOY 7
fauore quo vsus esses in illi subditos.
ciationis.
Basileam veni post tannun¬
Germania tanto honore me excepit vt propemodum
puderet. Nunc inclusus aestuariis Germanicis curo aedendas nugas
meas, non minus tumultuans in hoc negocio quam Caesar in ex¬
pugnandis Venetis. Reditum maturabo quantum licebit. Faxit
Deus vt vos omnes offendam incolumes.
Basileae. rmx Cal. Septemb. [Anno millesimo quingentesimo decimo¬
quinto. |
302,0; From JAMES WIMPFELING.
Strasburg.
1 September 1514.
Gouda MS. 1323, f. 24 v° (a).
De Copia f. 73.
[This letter, which was written by Wimpfeling in the name of the Strasburg
Literary Society after Erasmus’ departure for Basle, has survived by reason of
its answer. The best text for both letters is in the Gouda manuscript (App. 9).
They were printed first in Schürer’s edition of the De Copia, Dec. 1514 (8); and
subsequently in many editions of that work. I have collated Schurer's of
Oct. 1516 (y) and Froben’s of April 1517 (6). The date assigned is clearly
correct. |
DESIDERIO ERASMO IACOBVS WIMPHELINGVS.
Tvwenro nonnunquam ineptiori manticae et sarcinae imponuntur ;
sic et mihi veterano minusque idoneo Sodalitas literaria apud
Argentoracum id oneris imposuit, vt te omnium nomine saluum
iubeam, tibi bene esse exoptem, tuas literas quae status tui nos
certiores efficiant, ad nos propediem mittendas expostulem. Credi¬
mus autem te a Basiliensi gymnasio humaniter exceptum atque
perbenigne foueri inter doctos doctissimum. Praecipue vero in
conuentu illo philosophico nihil tibi, quod iucunditatem possit
praestare, Beatum Rhenanum, qui te alioqui amat, colit, obseruat,
speramus negaturum.
Commendat sese tibi vniuersa nostra Sodalitas literaria, inque tua
commoda omnia deditissimam sese offert: Sebastianus Brantus,
301. 50. Anno . . . decimoquinto add. H. 3802. TIT. WIMPHELINGVS a:
VVIMPHELINGYS SELETSTANVS NOMINE SODALITATIS LITERARIAE ARGENTINEN. B.
6. autem te a: te quoque £. 8. conuétu illo a: conuictu £. 9. alioquin
colit, amat 6. 11. inque tua . . 12. offert om. B.
301. 44. subditos] at Tournehem ; 302. 2. Sodalitas] A very similar
cf. Ep. 266. 5 n.
annunciationis] 25 March, which
is impossible. Assumptionis, 15 August,
is the easiest correction. On 2 Sept.
Erasmus is said to have arrived ‘ nuper¬
vime’ (BRE. 40): but he had certainly
reached Basle some time before the
end of August (Ep. 300 introd.).
45. Germania] Cf. Epp. 302, 305.
list of this society in 1516 occurs in
BRE. 54.
12. Brantus] (ce. 1457—10 May 1521).
From 1475-1500 he was at Basle Uni¬
versity, first as a fellow-student of
Reuchlin, later as Dean of the Faculty
of Law. His interest in the classics
induced him to write much poetry,
and also to correct many of Froben’s
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