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distinctio.
Nullus emendatorum apud me
codicum est, nullas vnquam feci
felicissime.
Epistole ad Erasmum f°. 2. vo.
Freiburg.
11 October 1514.
en
309. 16. partes LB: pte MS.
his career he aimed at printing books
which should promote the cause of
good learning; and this enthusiasm he
transmitted to his sons, and to his
partner Froben, who joined him in
1500 and carried on the high traditions
(cf. CPR. p. 27) of his press. His
ambition was to publish worthily the
four Doctors of the Church (ef. Iv. 256
seq.). Ambrose appeared in 1492,
Augustine in 1506, and Jerome he
lived to see well on the way to com¬
pletion. His will was signed on
Tuesday, 13 Dec. 1513 (Basle MS. C. VI.
gofin.). The date of his death is given
in a family inscription, in the hand of
25. perfecimus scripsi : pfeci9 MS.
his son Boniface (Basle MS. D. IV. 7.
P. 423) : ‘ Vixit Pater Ann. LXXXIII, 0B.
ineuntis anni m.D.xIIIL vur Kl. Ian.,
which is undoubtedly to be understood
of a year beginning at Christmas.
Beatus Rhenanus’ draft for this inserip¬
tion (Basle MS. KA. ©. 1. 2. 1.14; see
BRE. 161) differs from Boniface’s in
almost all its dates, but is clearly of
less value. See ©. O. Bernoulli in Basler
Biichermarken, 1895, pp. xiv, xv; EE.;
and ADB. A large quantity of his
correspondence is preserved in the
Basle University Library. A speci¬
men of his vigorous Latinity is printed
in EHR. xxii, 742.