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301 | TO WILLIAM BLOUNT, LORD MOUNTJOY 7 fauore quo vsus esses in illi subditos. ciationis. Basileam veni post tannunGermania tanto honore me excepit vt propemodum puderet. Nunc inclusus aestuariis Germanicis curo aedendas nugas meas, non minus tumultuans in hoc negocio quam Caesar in expugnandis Venetis. Reditum maturabo quantum licebit. Faxit Deus vt vos omnes offendam incolumes. Basileae. rmx Cal. Septemb. [Anno millesimo quingentesimo decimoquinto. | 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. Credimus 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 ‘ nupervime’ (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 University, 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 + ot on
