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46 LETTERS OF ERASMUS [naz et Italos longissimo interuallo praecedens, sis cum antiquitate atque vetustis litteratorum nominibus comparandus connumerandusque, Proinde hoc vnum te rogo, vt ita palam te Germanum declares tuis scriptis, ne vllo modo aut Angli aut Galli, gens in suam laudem satis 15 effusa, possint de te superbire aut suum te ciuem immodice gloriari. Vale, vir doctissime, atque patere me aequo animo incultis te litteris obtundere, cum ex summa in te obseruantia et admiratione proueniant, Iterum vale. Ex Tubingha 20. die Ianuar. 1515. 322 s06, 359 LO WILLIBALD PIRCKHEIMER. British Museum MS. Arundel 175 f. 17 (a). Basle. P. p. 267: 0% p.152: Lond. xxx. 21: LB. App. 48. 24 January (1515), [The earliest source for this letter is a manuscript volume in the British Museum which contains some miscellaneous writings by Pirckheimer. Some of these are autographs, including the De Bello Eluetico and the autobiography edited by Rück (p. 40) ; others are written by a late sixteenth-century hand, including a copy of the De Bello Eluetico, four letters of Erasmus to Pirckheimer (this ; Ep. 362 ; Lond. xxx. 41, LB. 740; and one unprinted) and two draft titlepages. From a comparison of these with the title-page of P it seems probable that their owner, Jobn Imhof, a great-grandson of Pirckheimer, intended to include these papers in that edition of his ancestor’s works, and that they were in fact prepared for that purpose. The manuscript has therefore good authority for these letters, which were perhaps copied from the originals; and the text which it gives for the three published in P is certainly the better. The contents of the volume, which is described in detail by Riick, clearly formed at one time part of the Pirckheimer papers, most of which are now in the Town Library at Nuremberg. In 1636 some of the papers were sold to Thomas, Earl of Arundel, from whom they passed, by channels described in the British Museum catalogue, into that institution, This letter, which is in effect an answer to Ep, 318, must be dated 1515, because the Adagia (Ep. 269) are still in progress, On 24 Jan. (1515) Lister, who was assisting at the printing, wrote to Boniface Amerbach expressing a hope that they would be finished by 2 Feb. (Basle MS. G. II. 20. f. 220).] ERASMYS BILIBALDO SVO S. D, | Tax PRIDEN ardebam desiderio tui, neque mediocrem amoris in te | flammam e tuis conceperam lucubratiunculis, in quibus mihi visus sum Bilibaldi mei velut expressum simulacrum agnouisse, hominis vel potius herois cuiuspiam incomparabilis, in quo vicissim et 5 fortunae splendorem ornarent litterae et litteras illustraret fortunae splendor, vtrumque commendaret morum integritas, et haec pari ingenii comitate suauitateque cumulata. Accendit ardentem, et iuxta Graecorum prouerbium 7îp èrì mp addidit Beati Rhenani, quo 321. 13. vnum corr. Erasmus pro vnicum, 322. 5. illustraret a ; ornaret P. 321. 13. Germanum] For the French Cf.also a note on Ep. 529. In the Nowum desire to claim Erasmus cf. BRE. 24; Instrumentum (ii. 555) he says: ‘(GerErasmus asserts his adhesion to Ger- mani) censentur hodie qui Germanice many in Ep. 269. 38 and elsewhere. loquuntur.’
