ds_, Duerer noted in late
August 1520: 'I have taken Erasmus of Rotterdam's portrait once more',
but he does not say when he took his first portrait. The earlier work is
assumed to have been done one month before, and to be identical with the
drawing in the Louvre (Pl. XXX). This drawing is mentioned by Erasmus
himself in a letter to Pirckheimer of 1525 (p. 240); in an earlier
letter to the same friend (1522) he says that Duerer had started to paint
him in 1520. The second portrait drawing is lost; hence it cannot be
proved that this second portrait was made in metal point--as is usually
assumed--and not in charcoal, or that the engraving here reproduced was
based on it.

XXXII. TERMINUS. Erasmus's device. Pen and ink drawing by Hans Holbein.
Basle, Oeffentliche Kunstsammlung (Print Room). _Facing p. 247_

_Frontispiece_: DECORATIVE PORTRAIT OF ERASMUS WITH HIS DEVICE,
TERMINUS. Engraving by Hans Holbein, 1535.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

For help in the collection of illustrations we are specially indebted to
M. Daniel van Damme, Curator of the Erasmus Museum at Anderlecht and
author of the _Ephemeride illustree de la Vie d'Erasme_, published in
1936 on the occasion of the fourth centenary of Erasmus's death. For
photographs and permission to reproduce we have to thank also the Frick
Collection, New York (Pl. iv), the Oeffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basle (Pl.
X-XI, XIV, XXV, XXIX, XXXII), the Library of Basle University (Pl.
V-VI), and the Warburg Institute, University of London (Pl. iii). The
photographs for Pl. II, VII, XVIII-XX and XXVI are by M. Mauhin,
Anderlecht, those for Plates VIII and XVII by Dr. F. Stoedtner,
Duesseldorf, and that for Plate IX by Fiorentini, Venice.

INDEX OF NAMES

Adrian of Utrecht, Dean, later Pope, 55, 131, 162

Agricola, Rudolf, 7

Albert of Brandenburg, archbishop of Mayence, 140, 145

Aldus Manutius, 63, 64, 81, 207

Aleander, Hieronymus, 64, 124, 147, 149, 171, 184, 187

Alidosi, Francesco, 214n.

Amerbach, Bonifacius, 176, 186, 223n.

Amerbach, Johannes, 83, 90

Ammonius, Andrew, 37, 58, 67, 79, 80, 81, 83, 86, 90, 93, 94, 119, 123,
134

Andrelinus, Faustus, 21, 25, 26, 29, 47

Anna of Borselen, Lady of Veere, 27, 28, 35, 37, 38, 55, 62, 200-1

Asolani, Andrea, 64

Ath, Jean Briard of, 131, 133, 134, 135, 137, 229

Aurelius (Cornelius Gerard of Gouda), 11, 13, 14, 33, 44

Badius, Josse, 57, 60, 79, 81, 82, 83, 90, 133, 208, 219n.

Balbi, Girolamo, 20