A New Witness for Erasmus' Letter 1887 in the Antwerp University Library.

With the intention of dissuading an unidentified monk from leaving his monastery, Desiderius Erasmus in October 1527 wrote a letter about the blessings of the monastic condition. This letter was last published as Ep. 1887 in volume 7 of P.S. Allen's edition of Erasmus' collected letters. The Antwerp...

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Publicado en:Quaerendo Vol. 45; no. 3/4; pp. 240 - 253
Autor principal: De Keyser, Jemen
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Brill Academic Publishers 2015
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Sumario:With the intention of dissuading an unidentified monk from leaving his monastery, Desiderius Erasmus in October 1527 wrote a letter about the blessings of the monastic condition. This letter was last published as Ep. 1887 in volume 7 of P.S. Allen's edition of Erasmus' collected letters. The Antwerp University Library, in its Special Collections, contains a hitherto overlooked manuscript witness for this letter, which helps in establishing the relationships among all extant witnesses and allows for a reconstruction of Erasmus' original letter.