This article discusses the origins and development of the Collected Works of Erasmus series, a project to translate the vast majority of the Dutch humanist Erasmus of Rotterdam’s Greek and Latin writings into English. A unique partnership between the University of Toronto Press and a team of Canadian and international scholars, the series is roughly 70 percent complete. Sixty of the projected eighty-six volumes have been published. Conceived by the late Ron Schoeffel, a long-serving editor at the Press, the series is expected to be complete by 2030. Cet article examine les origines et le développement de la collection Collected Works of Erasmus, consistant en la traduction anglaise de la plupart des écrits en grec et latin de l’humaniste néerlandais Érasme de Rotterdam. Grâce à un partenariat unique entre les Presses de l’Université de Toronto et une équipe internationale de chercheurs canadiens et étrangers, la collection est maintenant terminée à 70 pourcent. Ce sont soixante des quatre-vingt-six volumes projetés qui ont été publiés. La collection, conçue par Ron Schoeffel, éditeur de longue date aux Presses de l’Université de Toronto, devrait être complétée d’ici 2030.

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Original publication: Crane, Mark. "Forty Years of the Collected Works of Erasmus." Renaissance and Reformation 37 (4): 2015. 71-80. DOI: 10.33137/rr.v37i4.22640. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Renaissance and Reformation. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Renaissance and Reformation under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.