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126 LETTERS 27 August 1515. 12. Quintilianum] Cf. MHE. ii. 35. The Institutiones Oratoriae were published,with notes by Badiusand others, by Badius and Petit, 13 Jan. 1516. codice] The Codex Vallensis (Parisinus 7723) ; cf. Peterson’s edition of Inst. Orat. Lib. X, pp. lxxiii, iv. Badius preface, dated 13 Jan, 1516, states that the edition was prepared from a MS. lent by Remigius Ruffus of Aquitaine, which was stolen, however, just when the printing was beginning; and that Valla’s was found to take its place. Some verses which follow the Tabula to Quintilian show that Valla’s MS. was brought to France by Peter Sylvius, physician to Charles VIII. 347. 8. ex Basilea] This promise is not specifically made in Ep. 337, the nearest approach to it being in ll. 20-2. More in citing the same passage (LB. 1892 ¥) confirms Dorp: ‘quibus tibi breuiter, vtpote fessus ex itinere atque adeo in eodem adhuc itinere occupatus, satisfacit; copiosius idem se facturum professus, quum Basileam delatus esset’.
