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Letter #1619

[Ioannes DANTISCUS] to UNKNOWN
Löbau (Lubawa), 1537-04-07

English register: Dantiscus apologizes to the addressee that he cannot send the horses requested for the latter’s journey, but he has none that are good enough. For his own journey to Cracow, he borrowed horses from the Warmia bishop (Maurycy Ferber). He sent the majordomo to Kashubia to get horses, but the man did not manage to buy any.


Manuscript sources:
1rough draft in Latin, autograph, BCz, 244, p. 209

Prints:
1CEID 1/1 No. 23, p. 199-200 (in extenso; English register)

 

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Magnifice Domine, Amice carissime et honorande. Salutem et omnem felicitatem.

Non possum non quodammodo pudefieri, quod postulatis Magnificentiae Vestrae, cui in quibus possum non gravate gratificari velim, satisfacere ad praesens nequeam, quandoquidem equorum, qui boni dici deberent, penuriam ipse patior. Acceperam in mutuum a reverendissimo domino Varmiensi pro novissima mea Cracoviam profectione tres canterios, quos huc rediens remisi. De reliquis non est, quod ratione amicitiae , quae mihi est cum Magnificentia Vestra, et quod ad hoc iter, cui intendit, mittere valeam. Si equum darem minus bonum, ut sunt fere mei omnes, et mihi foret dedecori, et Magnificentiae Vestrae gratus atque utilis esse non posset. Quapropter, ut hanc meam amicam excusationem boni consulat, rogo plurimum. Pauloante ad Casszubas marschalcum meum misi, ut unum aut duos bonos mihi coemeret, verum re infecta rediit. Voluntas profecto gratificandi Magnificentiae Vestrae mihi non deest, deest vero facultas, [cuius] defectus merito reprae[h]endi non potest. Eandem Magnificentiam Vestram quam diutissime bene valere opto ex animo.

Ex castro meo Lubaviensi, VII Aprilis MDXXXVII