Calvin advises her to retire to Geneva.
Below you will find four versions of this letter: the original manuscript, the 1854 edition by Jules Bonnet, a modern French version and a Spanish translation that you can browse and compare. Just click on the buttons to open (or close) the drawers or change the sections’ order. Here is a link to the English translation made by the Gutenberg Project in 2014.
Facsimiles 21-24 : from John Calvin to Mistress de Budé
Library record (complemented by the catalog record)
Ms. lat. 107
Title : Lettres de John Calvin to divers correspondants (années 1545-1564)
Date(s) : 1545-1564
Sender(s) : Calvin, John
Description : 335 x 230 mm (size of largest letters) - (I-III) front flyleaves + 188 folios + (IV-VI) back flyleaves - foliation of letters in red ink, 1 to 180, noted at the top of folios (followed here); foliation in pencil, noted at the bottom of folios; shift of one digit between the two foliations for f° 9-17 - the pencil foliation was established by the editors of the Calvini Opera, who use it as a reference foliation in their edition of Calvin's Correspondence
Binding : The letters are mounted on tabs and the whole set of documents was bound at the beginning of the twentieth century in green half-chagrin on hardback boards covered with marbled paper - 5 raised bands - inscriptions on the spine in gilded letters, at the top : LETTRES DIVERSES / 1545-1593, in the middle: M. L . 107, and at the bottom: BIBLIOTHÈQUE / PUBLIQUE - fragment of an old binding glued on the front flyleaf III recto
Presentation of the contents : Autograph letters and copies of letters addressed by John Calvin to various correspondents, dating from the years 1545 to 1564; two letters dating from 1592 and 1593 have been added at the end of the volume. See the detailed table below on f° 181-188, table of contents entitled: "Ancienne table des matières ou liste des pièces contenues dans le Ms. 1. 107 jointe au présent volume en novembre 1911" On the back flyleaves, chronological table of the letters.
BACKGROUND : All the documents currently distributed in Latin manuscripts 106 to 120 were recorded in the 17th century in the Inventory of works then kept "En la Garderobbe". This inventory was drawn up around 1667: the documents of the Latin Mss. 106-120 were grouped together in "bundles of letters" (cf. Arch. BPU, Dk 3, f° 190r°-194r°; B. Gagnebi n. p. 110-113). This inventory listed the manuscripts acquired or received by the Library during the 17th century, and mainly those concerning the Registres du Consistoire, the Registres de la Compagnie des Pasteurs, the correspondence of the Church of Geneva, the acts of the synods of France, and the manuscripts given by the Waldensians of Piedmont.
Identifier : ark:/17786/vta332abcd074a0858f
Date(s) : 1545-1564
Sender(s) : Calvin, John
Description : 335 x 230 mm (size of largest letters) - (I-III) front flyleaves + 188 folios + (IV-VI) back flyleaves - foliation of letters in red ink, 1 to 180, noted at the top of folios (followed here); foliation in pencil, noted at the bottom of folios; shift of one digit between the two foliations for f° 9-17 - the pencil foliation was established by the editors of the Calvini Opera, who use it as a reference foliation in their edition of Calvin's Correspondence
Binding : The letters are mounted on tabs and the whole set of documents was bound at the beginning of the twentieth century in green half-chagrin on hardback boards covered with marbled paper - 5 raised bands - inscriptions on the spine in gilded letters, at the top : LETTRES DIVERSES / 1545-1593, in the middle: M. L . 107, and at the bottom: BIBLIOTHÈQUE / PUBLIQUE - fragment of an old binding glued on the front flyleaf III recto
Presentation of the contents : Autograph letters and copies of letters addressed by John Calvin to various correspondents, dating from the years 1545 to 1564; two letters dating from 1592 and 1593 have been added at the end of the volume. See the detailed table below on f° 181-188, table of contents entitled: "Ancienne table des matières ou liste des pièces contenues dans le Ms. 1. 107 jointe au présent volume en novembre 1911" On the back flyleaves, chronological table of the letters.
BACKGROUND : All the documents currently distributed in Latin manuscripts 106 to 120 were recorded in the 17th century in the Inventory of works then kept "En la Garderobbe". This inventory was drawn up around 1667: the documents of the Latin Mss. 106-120 were grouped together in "bundles of letters" (cf. Arch. BPU, Dk 3, f° 190r°-194r°; B. Gagnebi n. p. 110-113). This inventory listed the manuscripts acquired or received by the Library during the 17th century, and mainly those concerning the Registres du Consistoire, the Registres de la Compagnie des Pasteurs, the correspondence of the Church of Geneva, the acts of the synods of France, and the manuscripts given by the Waldensians of Piedmont.
Identifier : ark:/17786/vta332abcd074a0858f
Provenance : 
Facsimiles 215-220
Library record
Title : Lettres de John Calvin : lettres françaises. T. 1 / recueillies pour la première fois et publ. d'après les ms. originaux par Jules Bonnet
Author : Calvin, John (1509-1564). Author of the text
Publisher : (Paris)
Date of edition : 1854
Contributor : Bonnet, Jules (1820-1892). Scientific editor
Overall Record: : http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb30188089q
Type : printed monograph printed monograph
Language : French
Format : 2 volumes (XXXIX-451-600 p.): facsimile; in-octavo 2 volumes (XXXIX-451-600 p.): facsimile; in-octavo
Description : Correspondence Correspondence
Rights : Searchable online
Identifier : ark:/12148/bpt6k209248w
Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France
Provenance : Bibliothèque nationale de France
Date of online publication : 15/10/2007
