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Letter #1492

Matthias, Abbot of the Cistercian monastery in Koronowo to Ioannes DANTISCUS
Koronowo, 1536-06-24

English register: Matthias, Abbot in Koronowo, upholds his statement that Matthias, the guardian [of the Franciscans] in Kulm who died at his convent, did not indicate any perpetrator of his injuries; in the only statement he made at the time, he assured that not even all the medicines in existence could treat his illness (infirmitas mea est valde mirabilis et si omnes apothecas una semel gluttirem, non iuvarent sanare meam infirmitatem). Therefore the Abbot cannot give any other testimony.
            received [1536]-06-26

Manuscript sources:
1fair copy in Latin, autograph, AAWO, AB, D. 4, f. 81

 

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Reverendissimo in Christo Patri et Domino, domino Iohanni Dei gratia episcopo Culmensi, patri et domino gratiosissimo

Reverendissime in Christo Pater et Domine, domine mihi multum gratiosissime.

His litteris placuit invisere sanitatem Paternitatis Vestrae Reverendissimae, quam ex animo faveo Paternitati Vestrae Reverendissimae tamquam mihi ipsi.

Cerno aliqualem mihi difficultatem incumbere in negotio piae memoriae fratris Mathiae guardiani Culmensis, sed cur vel quare, penitus ignoro. Nam et ore tenus, et scriptis fassus sum, quod nihil percaleo de occisione eiusdem fratris, quia piae memoriae frater nullam fecit protestationem contra aliquem de suis percussionibus, solum hoc, quod interrogatus aiebat, quod „infirmitas mea est valde mirabilis et, si omnes apothecas una semel gluttirem, non iuvarent sanare meam infirmitatem”.

Ex quo clare patet, quod nihil aliud testari possum, nisi hoc solum, quod est mortuus et sepultus in nostro monasterio, et si talem difficultatem praesensissem, aliter mecum cogitassem, ne in hac causa defendere videar aliquam partium et amittere favorem gratiamque Paternitatis Vestrae Reverendissimae, domini mei gratiosissimi.

Cuius eidem gratiae et favori consuetis me commendo.

Datum in Corona, ipso die Iohannis Baptistae anno ab orbe redempto 1536.

Frater Mathias abbas Coronoviensis