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XXIV ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA P. 384. For MSS. owned by J. Faber of Deventer see Jortin ii. 712. P. 443, 1. 18. Read accompanied Pueci’s nephew, Antony. P. 488, Ep. 243.60n. Rimaclus’ preface to his Palamedes (Ep. 411 introd.) praises Griphus because ‘alimentarios per Anglie achademias ab iniuria subleu(at) inedie?, 514, Ep. 263 is reproduced in an admirable facsimile by M. Renouard, Badius, vol. i. p. 288. D Pa P. 520, Ep. 268. There is now a copy of Pynson’s edition, London, 28 July 1513, in the British Museum ; and Dr. Bruno Claussen, now of Rostock, has drawn my attention to one in the library of Freiburg University. P. 521. Read, 1. at, patriae. . 28, Aeginita. . 25, verum etiam lima emendatius. . 26, idipsum. P. 557, Ep. 291 introd. J. Reygersberch, op. cit., f°. B, calls Becar ‘Ioannes Beecker Borsalus’. 1. ro of introd. For the Bp. of Utrecht read John of Bergen (Ep. 737). P. 608, l. 25: For 43 read 42. 1. 26: For 51 read 52. A note among Dr. Knaake’s papers has supplied the clue to solve the question of Leclere’s relation to the Breslau MS. Rehdiger 254. In 1684 John Fecht, the Director of the Ducal school at Durlach in Baden, published in his Hist. ecclesiasticae seculi xvi supplementum, bk. viii, a collection of 53 letters. Of these 44 are addressed to Erasmus and 1 is concerned with him: of the remainder 4 are addressed to Nicholas Gerbell (Ep. 342 introd.), 2 to Wolfgang Musculus, 1 to Nicholas Episcopius, and 1to John Papp. In his ‘Apparatus’ (p. 164) Fecht says that he had received them from the library of Matthias Bernegger, the celebrated Strasburg scholar (1582-1640), ‘qui aliunde acceptas fideliter conseruauit.’ After the last letter he prints (p. 877) a colophon: ‘ Praecedentes epistolas Robertus Robertinus ex autographis plerasque descripsit, a Ioanne Pappo mecum communicatis, qui Nicolai Gerbelii (cuius e bibliotheca haec veniunt) neptem vxorem habet. 1629. mense Martio.? The correspondence of Bernegger printed by Dr. Reifferscheid (Briefe G. M. Lingelsheims, M. Berneggers und ihrer Freunde, 1889, 265, 268, 293; and pp. 831, 844, 908-9) shows that the young Prussian scholar, Robert Roberthinus (1600-1648 ; see ADB), was staying with him in his house at Strasburg in the winter of 1628-9; and thus it is clear that Bernegger was the author of the colophon quoted, and that it was to him that John Papp (perhaps a son of the John Papp, 1549-1610, who was the leader of the Lutherans at Strasburg) lent the MSS. The history of the Rehdiger MS. may thus be traced down to the present day. Clearly Gerbell (+1560) had acquired it from Erasmus or his heirs. In March 1629 it was in the hands of Gerbell’s granddaughter at Strasburg: by 1645 one of the Rehdigers had purchased it and placed it in the Town Library at Breslau, where it still is; the agent in the transaction being perhaps Roberthinus, who probably made the Rehdigers’ acquaintance in 1622 (Reifferscheid, op. cit. 97. 72). The relation of Leclere’s appendix to Fecht’s book remains to be considered. In quantity they are identical. Each has 43 letters from the Rehdiger MS. (one of Leclerc’s is in the body of the work, 1098) and 2 (LB. App. 325, 375) from some other source. In both many of the letters are abridged, to exactly the same extent. Leclerc’s text, too, apart from inevitable depravations and one conjectural amplification of a heading, appears to agree with Fecht’s. The asterisk which he adds to these letters merely denotes that they had not been included in earlier editions of Erasmus’ letters. The inference seems therefore to be plain that Leclere derived them, not from the originals, but from Fecht’s book; and further that the abridgment of the letters was done by Roberthinus. It is noticeable that some of Gerbell’s papers were accessible to the Durlach circle at about the same time; cf. J. H. Maius’ Vita Reuchlini printed there in 1687, p. 253 (quoted in HE. er). P. 609, 1. 27. For 13 read 14; and after 325 insert 328. 1. 28. Delete nearly. un
