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307 | TO ULRICH ZASIUS 27 Quod moliris in ius Caesareum illustrandum, precor vt Musae bene fortunent; scis, opinor, Budaeum Parisiensem tale quiddam 45 esse conatum; et Cutbertus Tonstallus, Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi cancellarius, vir vtriusque literaturae callentissimus, innumeros habet locos annotatos. Quod in tuis commentariis nostri mentionem facis meque paras immortalem reddere, magnopere gratum est laudari a viro omnium laudatissimo. Vnum illud a te rogo, ne posthac tam 50 inuidiosis titulis oneres Erasmum, ne quam nasutulis irridendi mei praebeas ansam. Quis enim non rideat Erasmum magnum appellari, qui nulla non parte minimus sit? ad haec felicem, cui nihil est quod fortunae possit acceptum ferre? Bonifacium, iuuenem iuxta modestum atque eruditum, quaeso ne graueris meo nomine salutare. Resalutat te Gerardus Listrius noster ex animo, vt tui studiosissimus, ita dignus profecto quem tu mutuo, sicut facis, diligas. Bene vale. Basileae. nono Calendas Octob. mM D.XIII. or or 308; To (GREGORY REISCH). Basle MS. G. IT. 133. 47. (Basle. (September 1514.) [An original letter, in Erasmus’ autograph throughout, except for the address, which he left to be added by another hand ; probably in these early days having heard of Reisch’s attainments without gathering his name. But even so the address is not completed. From the fact that all the points on which Erasmus consults Reisch occur at the beginning of the first volume of Jerome in the 1516 edition (Ep. 396), and that Erasmus was already at work on his scholia at this time (Epp. 307 and 313), it is clear that the date given by the Deventer MS. for Ep. 309 is correct. Gregory, sometimes wrongly George, Reisch (fo May 1525) of Balingen in the Wurtemberg Schwarzwald, matriculated at Freiburg 25 Oct. 1487 and became B.A. 1488, M.A. 1489. Subsequently he seems to have studied at Heidelberg, where he composed his Margarita philosophica, a kind of encyclopaedia for the purposes of catechetical instruction ; first printed by John Schott at Freiburg, c. 13 July 1503. Before that time he had entered the Carthusian house of the Mount of St. John Baptist, near Freiburg, where John Eck was one of his pupils (Eck, Epist. de rat. studiorum suorum); and in 1502 had risen to be Prior. Later he became Visitor of the Carthusians in the province of the Rhine, a title which is given to him in his Priwilegia ordinis Cartusiensis, Basle, To. Amorbach, 15 Jan. 1510. An edition of Geiler’s Nawicula Penttentie, Augsburg, J. Otmar, c. 8 Sept. 1511, is dedicated to him by his pupil James Otther ; who in his preface, r5 Nov. rs1o, speaks of the friendship subsisting between Reisch and Geiler. For his interest in Jerome at this time see p. 211. He was confessor to Maximilian, to whose deathbed he was summoned at Wels in 1519. He died at Freiburg during the Peasants’ Revolt. The Hebrew dictionary and 44. vt Musae bene E: Musae bonae a. 45. E : Bariscensem a. 46. Cutbertus Tonstallus 7: ut Bertus Donstanus (cf Epp. 207. 22 ef 471 prooem.) a. 50. a ante te add. E. 56. Listrius add. P. ex animo vt a: , ex animo vt E: ,vtexanimo H. 58. M D.XIII. add, E. 45. Budaeum] Annot. in Pandectarum 46, Tonstallus] His work on this Libros, Paris, J. Badius, 17 Nov. 1508. subject does not seem to survive.
