Page 608 [608]
OCR
LETTERS OF ERASMUS 585. From ANTONY CLAVA. Deventer MS. 91, f. 104. Ghent. LB. App. 402. 4 June (1517). [1517, because Erasmus is at Antwerp. ] ANTO. CLAVA DOMINO ERASMO S. D. Er valeo, Erasme doctissime, et te valere gaudeo. Caesar noster nudius est duodecimus quo ad Caesarem a nobis abiit vna cum Leopoldo Caesaris filio. Expectamus eum speramusque propediem ad nos rediturum. D. Petrus Barberius bona fide res tuas diligenter5 que curat solicitusque est mirum in modum ad ornandam euehendamque dignitatem tuam. Magnus ille Cancellarius, tametsi multis et arduis variisque quotidie negociis distringitur, de te tamen quoties mentio incidit, quod quidem non admodum raro fit, libentissime audit teque fauore non vulgari prosequitur, propensusque admodum ro est, quantum coniicere possumus, si qua vel occasio vel fortuna letior oportune arriserit, omnibus modis tibi gratificari. Vtinam Clauae tuo talis adesset facultas qualis eius in te vel voluntas vel amor vel obseruantia vel studium dignitatis tuae ! Quas commemorasti epistolas nusquam vidi : eas videre legereque 15 percupio. Accipies ex Barberii litteris quae in rem tuam nobis visa sunt conducere. Itaque speramus celerem aduentum ad nos tuum, simul ac petimus vt nusquam alio deflectas quam ad aedes Clauae tui. Habebis hospitem et letum et tibi obsequentissimum. Interim vale et charissimum mihi Petrum Aegidium, hospitem tuum iu20 cundissimum, nomine meo saluere plurimum iube. Ex Gandauo Pridie Nonas Iunias. 586. To DUKES FREDERICK AND GEORGE OF SAXONY. Basle MS. Antwerp. Suetonius (1518) f°. a?: Gouda MS. 1324, f. 17. 5 June 1517. N. p. 1198: Lond. xxviii. 16: LB. 318. [The preface to Suetonius as edited by Erasmus in the Historiae Augustae Scriptores. The earliest source is a manuscript, in the box which holds Epp. 338,9, 517,18, ete., written by Hand D of the Deventer Letter-book (a!) 1. Caesar) See Epp. 175introd. and greatly enriched the structure of the 525 introd. cathedral and held the see until his 3. Leopoldo] of Austria (c. 1504— death. See Van den Gheyn in Annales 27 Sept. 1557), a natural son of Maxi- de la Soc. d Hist. et d Archéol. de Gand, viii milian. With de Keysere he accom- (1907), pp. 97,8. panied his father to Maestricht, but 4. Barberius] See p. 283. He was parted with him there, 31 May—1 Juno evidently with Le Sauvage in attend1517; de Keysere taking the oppor- ance on the Court; cf. Ep. 584. 29 n. tunity to offer to the Emperor his 14. epistolas| Probably C', which book entitled De nuptiis Leopoldi (cf. was dedicated to Clava; see App. II. p. 451). In 1540-1 Leopold was ap- 16. aduentum] In view of his posipointed Bp. of Cordova, where he tion as Councillor; cf. Ep. 370. 18 n.
