Athenaeum Library, Deventer, Holland

I, 91 (101 G 6)

• MrT 12.4 f. 207v

  Copy of More's verses on pictures of Erasmus and Peter Gilles (Tabella loquitur, beginning Quanti olim fuerant Pollux et Castor amici, and Ipse loqvor Morvs, beginning Tu quos aspicis, agnitos opinor), in a copy of More's letter to Gilles, 7 October [1517].

  The handwriting of this MS is designated Hand B in Opus epistolarum Des. Erasmi Roterdami, ed. P.S. Allen, I (Oxford, 1906), p. 605. Facsimile of ff. 207r-8r in Yale, Vol. 3, Part II, after p. 299. Formerly cited in IELM, I.ii (1980) as MrT 14.

  An epigram on paintings, with a lengthy introduction beginning Verus in tabulam duplicem.... First published in Desiderius Erasmus, Auctarium selectarum aliquot epistolarum (Basle, 1518). Bradner & Lynch, pp. 120-1. Yale, Vol. 3, Part II, pp. 298-300, with English translation.

  Sir Thomas More, Epigrammata. 276. Tabula loqvitur ('Quanti olim fuerant Pollus et Castor amici')