For Revelations he was dependent on a single copy borrowed from Reuchlin, which lacked the last six verses...For Revelations read Revelation, a common mistake.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Wednesday, December 03, 2025
Singular, Not Plural
E.J. Kenney (1924-2019), The Classical Text: Aspects of Editing in the Age of the Printed Book (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974), p. 76 (he = Erasmus):