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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 mul¬
torum 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’ con¬
jectures 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 Amor¬
bach 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