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Letter #1479

Nicolaus COPERNICUS to Ioannes DANTISCUS
Frauenburg (Frombork), 1536-06-08
            received [1536]-06-09

Manuscript sources:
1fair copy in Latin, autograph, BCz, 2713, p. 1-2
2copy in Latin, 18th-century, BCz, 54 (TN), No. 93, p. 311
3copy in Latin, 18th-century, BCz, 284, No. 56, p. 170
4register with excerpt in Latin, English, 20th-century, CBKUL, R.III, 32, No. 599

Auxiliary sources:
1register in Polish, 20th-century, B. PAU-PAN, 8248 (TK 10), f. 238

Prints:
1NIEMCEWICZ 4 p. 64-65 (Polish translation)
2COPERNICUS 1854 p. 584 (in extenso; Polish translation)
3HIPLER 1857 p. 297 (in extenso)
4Kopernikijana No. 7, p. 79 (Polish translation)
5Spicilegium No. 10, p. 198-199 (in extenso)
6PROWE 1884 p. 158-159 (in extenso)
7DE VOCHT 1961 No. DE, 329, p. 270 (in extenso)
8SIKORSKI 1968 No. 375, p. 96 (Polish register)
9Kopernik na Warmii No. 395, p. 489 (Polish register)
10RC No. 355, p. 159 (English register)
11DREWNOWSKI 1978 No. 5, p. 230-231 (in extenso; Polish translation)
12COPERNICUS 1992 Rękopisy No. VII.11-12, p. 15 (facsimile)
13Españoles part II, No. 82, p. 261 (Spanish translation)
14NCG 6/1 No. 100, p. 194-196 (in extenso; German translation)
15AT 18 No. 206, p. 236-237 (Polish register)
16KOESTLER 2002 p. 175-176 (excerpt in Polish translation)
17COPERNICUS 2007 p. 186 (in extenso)
18COPERNICUS 2007 p. 197 (Polish translation)
19WASIUTYŃSKI 2007 p. 380 (Polish translation)

 

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BCz, 2713, p. 2

Reverendissime in Christo Pater et Domine, domine clementissime.

Accepi litteras Reverendissimae Dominationis Vestrae humanitatis plenas et gratiae. Quibus me admonet illius familiaritatis et gratiae, quam adhuc in iuventute cum Reverendissima Dominatione Vestra contraxi, quam adhuc tamquam florentem apud se durare intelligo. Sicque me inter suos familiares connumerando invitare dignata est ad nuptias cognatae suae. Equidem, reverendissime domine, obtemperare debebam Reverendissimae Dominationi Vestrae et aliquando me praesentare tanto meo domino et patrono. Nunc vero in negotio occupatus, quod mihi Mauritius Ferber (*1471 – †1537), doctor of both canon and civil law; from 1507 Canon of Ermland (Warmia) and Lübeck; from 1514 Canon of Trier; 1512-1515 parish priest of the Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Gdańsk (Danzig); from 1516 Custos of Ermland and parish priest of the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Gdańsk; from 1519 Canon of Dorpat; from 1523 Canon of Revel; 1523-1537 Bishop of Ermland (KOPICZKO 2, p. 71-72; SBKW, p. 59-60)⌊reverendissimus dominus VarmiensisMauritius Ferber (*1471 – †1537), doctor of both canon and civil law; from 1507 Canon of Ermland (Warmia) and Lübeck; from 1514 Canon of Trier; 1512-1515 parish priest of the Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Gdańsk (Danzig); from 1516 Custos of Ermland and parish priest of the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Gdańsk; from 1519 Canon of Dorpat; from 1523 Canon of Revel; 1523-1537 Bishop of Ermland (KOPICZKO 2, p. 71-72; SBKW, p. 59-60)⌋ iniunxit, abesse nequeo. Quapropter boni consulere dignetur ipsam absentiam meam et servare antiquam illam de me opinionem quamvis absentis, cum plus esse consuevit animorum coniunctio, quam etiam corporum. Reverendissimam Dominationem Vestram in omni felicitate, cui servitia mea commendo, perpetuo valero cupio.

Nicolaus Copernicus (Mikołaj Kopernik) (*1473 – †1543), humanist, physician and astronomer, doctor of canon law; nephew of Łukasz Watzenrode, Bishop of Ermland; 1497-1543 Canon of Ermland (Warmia); 1511-1513, 1520, 1524-1525, 1529 Chancellor of the Ermland Chapter; 1523 General Administrator of the bishopric after the death of Fabian von Lusian (Luzjański) (KOPICZKO 2, p. 161; SBKW, p. 123-124)⌊Nicolaus CopernicusNicolaus Copernicus (Mikołaj Kopernik) (*1473 – †1543), humanist, physician and astronomer, doctor of canon law; nephew of Łukasz Watzenrode, Bishop of Ermland; 1497-1543 Canon of Ermland (Warmia); 1511-1513, 1520, 1524-1525, 1529 Chancellor of the Ermland Chapter; 1523 General Administrator of the bishopric after the death of Fabian von Lusian (Luzjański) (KOPICZKO 2, p. 161; SBKW, p. 123-124)⌋