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12. Quintilianum] Cf. MHE. ii. 35.
The Institutiones Oratoriae were pub¬
lished,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, how¬
ever, just when the printing was begin¬
ning; 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 occu¬
patus, satisfacit; copiosius idem se
facturum professus, quum Basileam
delatus esset’.