Aliquot epistole sane q[uam] elegantes Erasmi Roterodami
Subtitle: & ad hunc aliorum eruditissimoru[m] hominum antehac nunq[uam] excusae praeter vna[m] & alteram : quarum titulos i[n] proxima pagella lector rep[er]ies
Series: Books printed in the Low Countries before 1601 -- roll 439, item 5
Publisher: Apud Theodoricum Martinum
Published: 1517
Place of publication: Lovanii
Language: lat
Number of pages: 132
Subjects: Correspondence
Other titles: Aliqvot epistole sane quam elegantes Erasmi Roterodami; Aliquot epistolae sane quam elegantes Erasmi Roterodami
Work titles: Correspondence
Notes: Imprint from colophon.

Signatures: a⁶ b-q⁴.

Title within woodcut architectural border.

Woodcut printer's device on p. [132].

The letter to Hadrianus Barlandus (leaves n1r-n3r) is considered the first catalog of Erasmus's works.

Adams, E-847

Nijhoff-Kronenberg, 819

Purchase; E.P. Goldschmidt; 6 October 1944; A.R. Sheldon fd.

Purchase; Jammes; 16 July 2004; 2004-185; Amy Lowell Fund ; Bayard Livingston Kilgour and Kate Gray Kilgour Fund; Bought with *2004-180-186.

Ownership inscription on front flyleaf: John Burns September 1924.

From the library of Benoît Le Court, with his arms stamped in silver in center of each cover.  Le Court has annotated the letter to Barlandus by noting in ms. "Erasmi opuscula" at the foot of leaf n1r.

Imperfect: title page border slightly cropped at bottom.

Bound in recent brown calf, edges gilt, by Rivière and Son.

Ms. inscription on front pastedown, "Emptus. xiiii β. vi δ".

No. 6 in a volume with 5 other early 16th-century tracts and 1 incunable.

Bound in 16th-century blind-stamped dark brown calf over wooden boards, gilt fleurons at corners of the inner panel, arms of Benoît Le Court stamped in silver in center of each cover; the edges of each tract have been colored alternately yellow, red, purple, or uncolored.  Blank leaf wanting, lower blank margin of 7₆ has been cut away; in case, 22 cm.