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10 LETTERS OF ERASMUS [1514 5 sacratiora tua adyta temeritate aliqua impiarem? Sed Bonifacii adulescentis optimi suasu fidentior factus, qui tuam singularem humanitatem praedicare non cessat, haec rurestria ad te dedi; tantum precatus me non quidem clientibus tuis (nec enim me tali dignor honore), sed mediastinis certe seruitiis adscribas. Ero enim ita tibi toa pedibus, ab atriis, a pauimento, a verriculis, a scopis seruus, vt reiectaneorum nihil sim abominaturus, dum vel vestibula tua mihi verrere concedatur. Vale, decus orbis, non dico Germani, sed omnium viuentium splendor. Nos in iure ciuili, quod profitemur, mendicula quaedam 15 pro veris intellectibus contra aliorum communia sensa meditamur ; in quibus mihi, vt mortalibus Deus, praedicaris. Denuo vale. Ex Fryburgo vii idus Septemb. 1514. Tuus Vdalricus Zasius, Legum et doctor et ordinarius in Achademia Fryburgensi. 304,,, From MARTIN van Dore. Gouda MS. 1324, f. 51 v°. Louvain. Enarratio in Ps. 1, fo. H5. vo. {c. September 1514.) Brussels MS. 4850-7, f. 68. [This letter was not at hand (cf. Ep. 356) when Erasmus’ reply was printed by Froben in A, August 1515. The best text of it (a) is supplied by one of the Gouda manuscripts (App. 9). It was first published in Martens’ reprint of Erasmus’ Enarratio in primum Psalmum, Oct. 1515 (68`), and afterwards by Badius, with Ep. 337, in the Moria, 24 June 1524 (8). The Bibliothèque Royale at Brussels has a manuscript copy (y) in the volume written by Martin Lypsius (ef. Ep. 296 introd.) ; which was probably made from the printed book like some of Lypsius’ other extracts in the same volume. There is also a xvii® manuscript copy in the University Library at Utrecht (No, 843, f. 83) by the hand of Arnold Buchelius (1565-1641); but as some specimen readings, with which Prof. van Someren has kindly furnished me, agree uniformly with BI, it may be inferred that the manuscript was probably copied either directly or indirectly from the printed book. 14. mendicula scripsi : inedicula MS.: modicula Riegger. Cf. Ep. 380. 26 n. 15. contra Riegger, cf. Ep. 319. 42n : ceu MS. 16. mortalibus scripsi : mortales MS.: mortalis Riegger. praedicaris scripsi secundum Ep. 307. 49, cf. Ep. 319. 19: praedicatis MS, 5. Bonifacii] Amerbach. See Ep. 408. 15. pro veris intellectibus] His Intellectus Singulares (Opera, vol. v), which contain such headings as ‘Intellectus verus. . . contra communes opiniones ; . . contra omnes doctores; ... contra doctorum sententiam.’ They were first published by Cratander at Basle, Jan. 1526. 16. praedicaris] I cannot find any reference to Erasmus in the Intellectus, but he is mentioned in Zasius’ Oratio de laudibus legum (Opera, v. 168,9); ‘sicuti Erasmo Roterodamo magno illo dicente, littora validius communiri solent quae vehementissimis fluctibus impelluntur.’ It was Zasius’ custom to deliver an oration at the opening of term after the summer vacation, and this one, which was delivered by him as ‘ordinarius,’ may possibly belong to this year. I cannot trace the words quoted in it from Erasmus.
