This volume of the Amsterdam edition of the Latin texts of Erasmus deals with education and learning, and the mastery of Latin. It presents a critical edition of the Latin texts of De pueris instituendis, De ratione studii, De conscribendis epistolis and Ciceronianus. The Latin text is clarified by introductions and notes in French, which offer linguistic, historical and philological background information clarifying the text.

Volumes V, 4 and V, 5 of the Amsterdam edition offer a critical edition of the Latin text of Erasmus' Instruction of Preaching. The volume presents a critical edition of the Latin text of books 3 and 4 and an introduction and commentary notes in French that provide the reader with useful philological, theological, linguistic and historical background information, elucidating the text and identifying Erasmus' sources.

Ordo II comprises the work that made Erasmus famous, namely the Adagia (Proverbs) some of which were extended into essays. This first volume of the Adages in the Amsterdam edition of the Latin texts of Erasmus gives a general introduction to the Adages in German, as well as a critical edition of the Latin text of the first half of the first thousand Adages. The text is accompanied by notes, also in German, that trace Erasmus' sources and give linguistic, historical, philological and, where necessary, theological background information that helps to...