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TO GREGORY REISCH 29 308] initium, Nihil Christiano etc., torquet nos locus de filiis Ionadab, quos ait in Psalmo scriptos, quod primi sustinuerint captiuitatem. De his lego apud Hieremiam; apud Psalmographum non memini quicquam esse. In epistola ad Nepotianum que incipit, Petis @ me, torquet nos locus, Testudineo Grunnius incedebat gradu, versibus aliquot maxime ibi, Hic bene nummatus etc. In epistola ad Letham offendit locus, Quibus corax, niphus, miles. Multa diuinauimus, omnia non possumus. Rursum in eadem, Cibus eius olusculum sit et simila, caroque et pisciculi, diuino legi debere, Cibus eius olusculum sit) et e simila garoque pisciculi. Sunt et alia; quid enim ibi non deprauatum ? Sed non est ocium Bene vale, pater optime. Erasmus tuus per omnia. Frib(urgi). o A 45 de singulis scribere. Venerabili patri ac domino D. 308309. FROM GREGORY REISCH. Deventer MS. 91, f. 171 v°. LB. App. 12. F. GREGORIVS, PRIOR CARTVSIAE, DOMINO ERASMO ETERNAM IN DOMINO CONSEQVI SALVTEM. Freiburg. 4 October 1514. Hvmanissme ac doctissimo Erasmo, gaudeo plurimum peruulgatam tuam auctoritatem Hieronymo nostro accessisse ; credo diuinitus ita factitatum, vt praeconceptus labor non prius in publicum prodiret, donee exercitatissimum ingenium tuum ea quae vel manca vel detruncata et erroribus obfuscata haud dubium semper manerent, 5 castigationis lima illustraret ac restitueret. Placet quam maxime vt quae falso Hieronymo tribuuntur, similiter et adulterina, ab aliis quae vere illius sunt segregentur. Ordinem meum, quinimmo Ammerbachii senioris feliciter defuncti, si immutaueris, iudicio multorum iacturam non paruam vendentibus facies, forte non minorem 10 legentibus; nam confuse valde epistolae cum libris et tractatibus 309. o. feliciter LB : felicitato MS. 808. 36.Ionadab] In the scholia (1516, f. 19) Erasmus explains this difficulty by reference to the Lxx. title of Ps. 71. 39. Nepotianum] A wrong reference. These passages also are in the Epistola ad Rusticum (1516, f. 22 v°); and are explained in the scholia on ff. 19 v°, 20 with allusion to Grunnius Corocotta. Cf. Ep. 222. 37,8. 42. Quibus corax] For Erasmus’ conjectures see f. 24 of the 1516 edition; the text is on f. 25 v°. 43. Cibus] Erasmus prints his emended version in the text (f 27) and gives the corrupt reading in his notes (f. 25). In 1526 (f. 57) he reads raroque. 309. 9. Ammerbachii] John of Amorbach in Lower Franconia (c. 1430— 25 Dec. 1514), the famous Basle printer. After taking his M.A. at Paris he returned to Germany, and became corrector in Kobergers press at Nuremberg. About 1475 he set up his own press in Basle, and his first book was published in 1478. Throughout
