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304 | FROM MARTIN VAN DORP IL
In £? I have collated the variants and about half the text, and find that with
the few exceptions recorded here it invariably follows 81.
Jortin (ii. p. 336) prints this letter ‘from Von der Hardt,’ but I have not
been able to discover in which work of that voluminous writer he found it.
It is not in the Hist. literaria Reformationis, 1717, from which Jortin cites his next
letter ; nor in several other of Von der Hardt’s publications. The text given is
go corrupt that its variations are not worth recording, but on the whole it agrees
with y.
The date is given by the reference in ll. 156-9 to the Opuscula (Ep. 298).
Martin Bartholomew van Dorp (1485—31 May 1525) of Naaldwyk in Holland,
was a nephew of James Hoeck, Dean of Naaldwyk, the friend of Wessel of
Groningen. After completing his course at the Collége du Lis in Louvain
University, 1504, he became professor of philosophy in that College. He spent
some years in teachine, during which he superintended the performance of
Plautus’ Aulularia, 3 Sept. 1508, and subsequently of the Miles Gloriosus ; and
c. 1509 he was appointed University Lecturer (BRE. 126). On receiving a benefice
(cf. 1. 161 n.) he began the study of theology, and in this his later years were
spent. He was elected member of the council of the University 28 Feb. 1510.
Im 1515 on taking his Doctor’s degree in theology he received a Professorship in
that faculty and the accompanying Canonry in St. Peter’s church; and in
September of the same year he was elected President of the Collége du Saint¬
Esprit. He resigned this office on 14 Noy. 1519, but remained at the University ;
of which he was Rector Feb.—Aug. 1523. He worked with Martens and wrote
verses and prefaces for many of the books issued by him ; see yan Iseghem. His
own writings include a sermon on the Assumption, delivered 15 Aug. 1510; an
Oratio in laudem Aristotelis, 3 Dec. 1510; an Oratio de laudibus sigillatim cuiusque
disciplinarum, delivered r Oct. 1513 at the opening of the autumn session;
a Dialogue on the temptation of Hercules (c. 1514); and an Oratio in praelectionem
epistolarum diwi Pauli, delivered in 1516 (Ep. 438). On this and subsequent occa¬
sions he was instigated by the theologians of Louvain (for whose intentions, as
reported-by Reuchlin at this time, seo RE. 198) to attack Erasmus ; but in spite
of-temporaty disagreements (cf. Ep. 474) their relations remained cordial, and
at Dorp’s death Erasmus wrote an epitaph for him.
See Nève, Mém. sur le Collège des Trois Langues and Renaissance en Belgique,
pp. 174-92; Val. Andreas, Fast. Acad. Louan. ; BRE. ; EE. ; and BN.]
MARTINVS DORPIVS ERASMO ROTERODAMO SACRAE THEOLOGIAE
PROFESSORI VNDECVNQVE DOCTISSIMO SALVIEM DICIT PLVRIMAM.
Cave credas, mi Erasme (nam hoc solum nomen ita nune est
doctrinae excellentiaeque nomen, vt nihil sit adiiciendum)—caue,
inquam, credas vllum esse omnium amicorum tuorum, quos sane
pro ista eruditione omniiuga istisque tam candidis moribus habes
plurimos, vbique ferme qua patet ditio Christiana sparsos, qui te
synceriore complectatur amore quam ego, primum olim tibi familia¬
rissimus, deinde nuper qum hic esses, humanissime abs te iussus
accersi pene solus ; postremo, quod non in extremis habendum puto,
conterraneus eciam tuus, vt ne dicam tantus admirator ingenii
praecoque gloriae tuae quantus nemo alius. Proinde quicquid ad te,
quamuis libere, scribam, id ex amicissimo tibique deditissimo pectore
proficisci persuadeas tibi, vt tuo nomini honorique consulatur.
3. quos tu sane By. 4. omniiuga om. By. 8. non... habendum a: in
prima parte By. tI. tibique deditissimo om. By. 12. honorique
om. By.
6. olim] For this intimacy ef. Ep. 337. 6, 7; it was presumably in 1502-4.
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