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quae vel non scripsimus vel non emendauimus. Bene vale, lector
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BASILEAE. III. CALENDAS ÅVGVSTI. M.D. XV.
} 342. From NICHOLAS GERBELL.
Deventer MS. 91, f. 129 v°. Strasburg.
LB. App. 42. (August init.) 1515.
{Not long before Ep. 343.
Nicholas Gerbell of Pforzheim (c. 1485—c. 20 Jan. 1560) was studying at
Cologne, whence he corresponded with Trithemius in June 1507 (TE). In 1508
he was M.A. at Tübingen and in r510 was studying Aquinas in the Dominican
he edited a number of books for Vietor and Singren and the Alantsees. In I514
| he went to Italy, where he visited Aldus and met Gesner at Venice, and on
| 2 Oct. was made Doctor of Canon Law at Bologna (MHE. ii. 30; not Vienna, as
| Pellican). In 1515 he came to Strasburg and began to work for Schürer ;
interrupting this by a short visit to Basle in the autumn (cf. Epp. 358.5 n. and
The remainder of his life was spent at Strasburg, where he.became legal adviser
to the Bishop and the Cathedral Chapter, and 1541-3 was Public Reader in
History. He sympathized with the Reformers, and at one time was closely
connected with them ; but subsequently his literary interests reasserted them¬
selves and he published many historical and geographical works. . In March
1521 he edited the New Testament in Greek, Hagenau, T. Anshelm.
See C. Varrentrapp in Strassburger Festschrift zur xlvi. Versammlung Deutscher Philo¬
logen, 1901 ; Aschbach, Wiener Univ., ii; ADB ; and for a trace of his papers HE. ar. ]
NICOLAVS GERBELLIVS ERASMO IN CHRISTO IESV SALYTEM P.
Qvam molestus mihi fuerit abitus tuus nec dicere ausim nec scribere,
videlicet ne rursum in os mihi obiicias, linguam me velle exercere vel
eloquentiam ; in quibus quam sim egenus quamque ieiunus, ego
5 teste sit opus. Vtcunque feras tamen, hoc nec volo nec possum dis¬
simulare, nunquam mihi cum quouis homine necessitudinem fuisse
gratiorem, nullius vnquam me praesentia plus oblectatum, aut cuius¬
quam penitius gauisum colloquio affatuquo plusquam humano, plus¬
quam suaui, plus quam dici potest iucundo, quam Erasmi mei: cui
sunt mihi vniuersa in Erasmo, gaudium meum numeris absolutum
praedicarem omnibus; neque vlla re, quantumuis magna, me per¬
fectius beatum esse posse quam si familiaritas nostra, qualiscunque
sit haec, Erasmo non vndequaque displiceret.
15 Scio quid nune facis, rides ; Scio quid cogites, ex ore me illa loqui,
342, Ir. gadium MS.
342. 1. abitus] This word suggests a resid
; ence of some length, not a mere
| passing through; cf. Ep. 337 introd.