. Wessel Gansfort, life and writings . desired book by a student was a not unusual thing. Evenafter printed books had come somewhat into use, we readof Zwingli making with his own hand a copy of the PaulineEpistles from Erasmus recently issued edition of the NewTestament. This he did that he might have the letters inthe original, and in a portable form. It was an indicationof Wessels scholarly interest and industry that he earlyformed the habit of making extensive excerpts fromthe authors that he read. His training as a copyist in theschools of the Brethren, doubtless, rendered this task thele
. Wessel Gansfort, life and writings . desired book by a student was a not unusual thing. Evenafter printed books had come somewhat into use, we readof Zwingli making with his own hand a copy of the PaulineEpistles from Erasmus recently issued edition of the NewTestament. This he did that he might have the letters inthe original, and in a portable form. It was an indicationof Wessels scholarly interest and industry that he earlyformed the habit of making extensive excerpts fromthe authors that he read. His training as a copyist in theschools of the Brethren, doubtless, rendered this task theless irksome to him. While at Cologne he began a collec-tion of miscellaneous quotations, with comments of hisown. It contained passages from Greek and Latin authors,especially the Fathers, and from later philosophicalwriters. The collection grew with the years, and Wesselcarried its many volumes about with him when he was an armory from which he took the weapons neededin his forensic encounters. Half humorously he called it. ;{>;A^ -1 v^..-y One of the Many Gates to Mediaeval Groningen Youth 57 The Great Sea as if it were formed of streams from alllands. Not least among the accomplishments of his years atCologne was the acquaintance which he there gained withthe Greek and the Hebrew languages. There were at thetime no facilities for such studies offered by the was however able to obtain tutors. Turkishinvasion was already driving Byzantine scholars intoEurope. Two such refugees, Greek monks, had foundasylum at Cologne; and it was from them that he acquiredhis first knowledge of the Greek tongue. Hebrew helearned from some educated Jews in Cologne or its vicin-ity. The knowledge of Greek and Hebrew was such anunusual thing at the time that it constituted its possessora marked man, and in Wessels case it provoked manyincredible tales as to his wonderful linguistic accomplish-ments, tales that suggest Borrows pretentious title:Metrical Translati
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