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[1515 Vehementer enim scire cupio Dignus est cui morem Romam auolamus. Cum eum agimus idem. 14. genealogiam] On pp. 19-31 of Reuchlin’s Rudimenta Hebraica, Pforzheim, Anshelm, 27 March 3506. It is compounded of the two given for Joseph in Matt. r and Luke 3; and follows the latter, vv. 31-8, from Adam to David, and 24-7, from Shealtiel to Matthat, the former, vv. 6-12, from David through Solomon to Shealtiel. The pseudo-Philo’s Brewiarium de Temporibus, which was printed in Latin at Rome and Venice in 1498 and at Paris in 1510 and 1512 in a small collection of writers on chronology, perhaps forged by their first editor, Annius of Viterbo, repregents the seed of Solomon as being cut off and one of the descendants of Nathan as carrying on the line; thus agreeing with Luke. Reuchlin’s genealogy makes Matthat the father of Jehoiakim (whose name he states on the authority of the same Brewiarium to be equivalent to the Heli who in Luke is the father of Joseph) and Jehoiakim the father of Mary. He uses it merely as a convenient instrument for teaching Hebrew letters and syllables ; and states in his prefatory remarks that his readers will have heard it ‘saepe in ecclesia, licet Reuchlin on behalf of an English theologian ; see his Resp. ad Annot, Lei, Basle, Froben, 21 July 1520, p. 73 (LB. ix. 160 4). But ifso, his memory was at fault in the details. 27. Romam] Mr. Nichols proposes to read statim, on the ground that Erasmus could hardly have been contemplating a journey to Rome so shortly before he actually went to England ; but Ep. 323. 21 shows that he had fixed 1 March as the date of his departure for Italy ; for the motive of the journey see Ep. 328. 36n. From Ep. 322 it appears that he was hesitating between Italy and England. 28. tuorum laborum] Pellican (CPR. pp. 38,9) states that in 1508 he began at John Amorbach’s request to revise the Hebrew passages in Jerome ; and that Reuchlin had already done the same for the Greek. But in view of RE. tog and RE. p. 360 Pellican’s date should probably be 1509. In JulyAug. 1510 Reuchlin visited Basle to give further assistance with the Hebrew (MHE. i. 1). See also iv. 260 and RE. In 1509 Conrad Leontorius (RE. pp. 360,1) and in 1512 Sapidus (Basle MS. G. II. go. 178. 4) also took some part in the work. 31. Hebraicis literis] In the Jerome Erasmus had help from the Amorbachs for the Hebrew (Adag. 2001 fin. and
