Note 1 — Chapter XIII · JOHN CALVIN A STUDENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ORLEANS. (1527-1528.)
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'Jurisconsultorum Gallorum princeps.'—Bezæ Vita Calvini.
[2] 'Jam dedisti nomen inter rei litterariæ professores.'—Calvinus Chemino, Berne MSS. This letter will be found in the Letters of John Calvin, published in English at Philadelphia, by the learned Dr. Jules Bonnet, to whom I am indebted for the communication of the Latin manuscripts.
[3] 'In ea natus es dexteritate, quæ nihil imprudenter præjudicare soleat.'—Calvinus Chemino.
[4] 'Mi Chemine! amice mi! mea vita charior!'—Calvinus Chemino.
[5] 'Vide ne desidem te faciat tuus pudor!'—Ibid.
[6] Le Maire, Antiquités d'Orléans, i. p. 388.—Theod. Beza von Baum, i. p. 27.
[7] 'Ille quasi stella matutina in medio nebulæ et quasi sol refulgens emicuit.'—Bimbenet, Histoire de l'Université des Lois d'Orléans, p. 357.
[8] Ibid. pp. 354-357.
[9] 'Hæretici divina primum vindicta, post etiam ... ultione plectendi.'—Justiniani Codicis lib. i. tit. i.: De summa Trinitate, et ut nemo de ea publice contradicere audeat.
[10] 'Publicum crimen, quia quod in religionem divinam committitur in omnium fertur injuriam.'—Ibid. tit. v.: De Hæreticis.
[11] The Justinian code dates from 529 A.D., just a thousand years before the time of Calvin's studies; but the greater part of the laws contained in it were of older date.
[12] Bimbenet, Hist. de l'Univ. des Lois d'Orléans, p. 30.
[13] Bimbenet, Hist. de l'Univ. d'Orléans, p. 358. The prefecture now occupies the site of Bonne Nouvelle.
[14] Ibid. pp. 40, 41, 51, 52, 358.
[15] This maille was probably the gold florin of Florence. The giglio fiorentino is the badge of this city, and John the Baptist its patron.
'La lega suggellata del Batista,'
says Dante in the Inferno, xxx. 74.
[16] M. Bimbenet, chief greffier to the Imperial Court of Orleans, gives this tradition in his Hist. de l'Univ. d'Orléans, pp. 161, 162, 179-358.
[17] Hist. de l'Univ. d'Orléans, pp. 173, 176, 179.
[18] 'Ut patris voluntati obsequerer, fidelem operam impendere conatus sum.'—Calv. in Psalm.
[19] 'Singularem ingenii alacritatem,' &c.—Flor. Rémond, Hist. de l'Hérésie, liv. vii. ch. ix.
[20] 'Longa consuetudine diuturnoque usu.'—Bezæ Vita Calvini.
[21] 'Läusige Kappe.'
[22] Remarques sur la Vie de Calvin, Hérésiarque, by J. Desmay, vicar-general, p. 43.
[23] 'Saluta matrem, uxorem, sororem Franciscam.'—Calvinus Danieli, Berne MSS.
[24] 'De Coiffartio quid aliud dicam, nisi hominem esse sibi natum?'—Calvinus Danieli, Geneva MSS.
[25] Calvin's Letters, Philadelphia, i. p. 32.
[26] Wolmar, Commentaire sur l'Iliade.
[27] Beza, Vie de Calvin et Histoire des Eglises Réformées, i. p. 67.
[28] 'Quam liberaliter paratus fueris te mihi officiaque tua impendere.'—Calv. in 2ᵃᵐ Ep. ad Cor.
[29] 'Præ cæteris discipulis diligere ac magnifacere eum cœpit.'—Flor. Rémond, Hist. de l'Hérésie, liv. vii. ch. ix.