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40 LETTERS OF ERASMUS [1514 verba vsurpem), factis ingentior, quomodo non omnibus sis numeris celebrandus ? in quo celebrando iam numerus non erit numerus, iam mensura, iam pondus a suis terminis excurrent. 25 Sed iam sistendum est, quia ad ff. veteris lectionem vado. Caetera pluribus, quia tecum confari, tanquam cum Eudaemone, ex animo delector. Vale, anima mea, decus meum, imo decus philosophiae et philosophiae encyclicae ; parce si parum ex iusto graecissaro, homo in talibus peregrinus. 30 Ex Fryburgo vii idus Nouemb. Anno 1514. Tuus Zasius, Bonifacius ille tuus, imo noster, quando fulgure tuo praestrictus manum scribere) non audet, rogare non cessat se tibi commendem, te suo nomine salutem. Quod equidem, quando semel factus sum 35 impudens illotas meas ad te dandi, lubens facio; et vt sim gnaue impudens, et vt morem geram ei amico quo mihi hic Fryburgi nil est dulcius. Ergo verba salutis nomine Bonifacii a distincto isto vernula suscipe. 818. From WILLIBALD PIRCKHEIMER To BEAT BILD OF RHEINAU. Deventer MS. gt, f. 143. Nuremberg. LB. App. 15. 9 December 1514. [Evidently on the occasion of Erasmus’ first visit to Basle. Of. also Epp. 322 and 3264, Willibald Pirckheimer (5 Dec. 1470—22 Dec. 1530) was born at Eichstadt : and after beginning his education there was in Italy, 1490-7, studying Greek at Padua and law at Pavia. On returning to Germany he settled with. his father at Nuremberg, of which town he soon became councillor. In this capacity he | attracted the notice of Maximilian, who made him an Imperial Councillor and | consulted him about literary matters. He served N uremberg till 1522, when he resigned his office in consequence of local Jealousies, and gave himself up to learned leisure. He had been left a widower in 1504 with five young daughters. whom he educated carefully, and who afterwards became as famous for learning as the daughters of Sir Thomas More. ` His writings include translations from Lucian and Plutarch, a description of Germany, and a history of the Swiss wars. His wealth and position enabled him to assist less fortunate men of learning, one of whom was Diirer, who illustrated some of Pirckheimer’s works Of these a collected edition (P) was printed in 1610. A See his Autobiography, printed with his De Bello Eluetico e Rück i 1895) from the British Museum MS.; and ADB. XXVI. ae dei ro | Nuremberg and Dr. Reimann of Berlin are editing his correspondence The latter has made some detailed researches into the history of the Pirckheimer family, in which the fate of Willibald’s library is traced. For Pirckheimer’s previous interest in Erasmus cf, BRE. 422 (autumn r51g).] 25. Caeteri MS.: corr. LB. 33. Post manum deesse videtur verbum aliquod | in fine versus; admouere add. Riegger. Cf. tamen Epp. 21 5 è | cesset MS. PP. 319: 3, 376. 28. cessat LB: 25_ff.] The accepted abbreviation origin is uncertain, but it i f s thought for the Digest; cf. Ep. 319. 41n, Its tobea corruption of PP. for micro
