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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 completion. 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 inseription (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 specimen of his vigorous Latinity is printed in EHR. xxii, 742.
