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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 diligenter¬
5 que curat solicitusque est mirum in modum ad ornandam euehen¬
damque 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 iu¬
20 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 attend¬
1517; 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 posi¬
pointed Bp. of Cordova, where he tion as Councillor; cf. Ep. 370. 18 n.