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610] FROM JOHN CAESARIUS 25 puerascere, partim quia ita occupati sunt suis neniis, quarum innumeros habent libros, vt interim vacare huic rei minime possint. Dominus meus, Noue Aquile Comes illustris, et ego non raro de te loquimur, et maximopere tuum probamus propositum in bonis litteris in lucem reuocandis, et tui socii esse cuperemus, modo tam feliciter res nobis succedere posset. Vale optime. Coloniae 13 Cal. Augusti. Tilmanno meo et tuis conterraneis Magistro Georgio, viro probissimo, et Iacobo, adolescenti studiosissimo, salutationem tuo nomine, vt imperasti, annunciaui. Nihil illis aut gratius aut charius esse potuit, teque proinde non tam eodem iure quam ex debito resalutari 5 iusserunt. 611. FROM ULRICH VON HUTTEN. Deventer MS. 91, f. 212 v° (a). Bamberg. LB. App. 153. 20 July 1517. [As in Epp. 559, 574, 601, the copyist, Hand B, has been frequently corrected by a contemporary hand. Its present siglum a is therefore sometimes subdivided into a! and a2. For confirmation of the date and illustration of Hutten’s experiences, see HE. ] HVLDERICHVS DE HVTTEN EQ. ERASMO ROTERODAMO THEOLOGO SALVTEM P. D. SI eorum que mihi interim, dum a te absum, euenerunt, historiam narrando tibi contexere velim, Erasme doctissime, nullus tam longus est dies qui mihi satis fuerit ; ita varie iactatus sum. Capita tamen narrationis huius fere sie habent. Romam vt veni, tuo nomine salutaui Paulum ; qui mihi quoties postea occurrit (occurrit autem 610. 42. raro non MS.: transposuit LB. 611. 3. varie a. 610. 47. Tilmanno]Graviusora Fossa his children. Cervicornus speaks of (? vom Graben), born 1474 (?), matri- him asa patron and praises his library. culated at Cologne 27 Sept. 1496. From ME. 6280, 14 July 1557, is perhaps ad1512 to 1544 his name occurs as Secre- dressed to him. See Ennen, Gesch. d. tary to the Chapter of Cologne Cathe- Stadt Köln, iv, pp. 111, 466; and Varrendral; and in that position he was trapp, Herm. von Wied, 1878, pp. 90-1. intimate with the Bp., Hermann of Georgio] ¡Geo. Johannis of RotWied. By 1527 he was father of eight terdam. He matriculated at Cologne children, one of whom was for a time 9 June 1504, and in 1512 was a memin Erasmus’ household in 1533 (EE. ber of the Bursa Corneliana. In 1513 196,7) and gave his father much he entered the Council of the Arts trouble (Zs, d. berg. Geschichtsvereins, xxx, Faculty, and in 1514 was an examiner. 1894, p. 202). In 1535 Tilmann con- After the mention in Ep. 615. 1 nothing templated taking orders (HE. 224). seems to be known of him. See ButzErasmus dedicated to him Lactantius’ bach, Heft 2, 1875, pp. 26,7. de Opificio, Basle, H. Froben and J. 48. Iacobo] Probably Jas. Teyng of Herwagen, March 1529; and John Hoorn (Ceratinus) ; cf. Ep. 622. 3n. Oldendorp, the jurist, a treatise De 611. r. absum) Cf. Ep. 365. iure et aequitate, Cologne, J. Gymnich, 5. Paulum] Bombasius ; cf. Ep. 210 1541, with a preface lauding him and introd. 40 45 n
