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Letter #1895

Ioannes DANTISCUS to Tiedemann GIESE
Heilsberg (Lidzbark Warmiński), 1538-08-04

English register:

Dantiscus has read the copy of Giese’s letter to the King [Sigismund I Jagiellon] and himself intends to write in a similar tone. If the King intervenes with the Pope [Paul III] on the matters in question, this will at least benefit their successors.

Dantiscus does not expect to recoup the costs incurred so far, but he hopes the money will not serve the swindlers well. In his opinion, Giese should not delude himself that his letter will shame [Wojciech Kijewski].

Dantiscus will make sure the vestments of which he wrote are made according to the measurements sent, and he also offers Giese gloves and a ring. He will notify him of the date when the ceremony is to be celebrated once he reaches the cathedral [in Frauenburg (Frombork)]. Felix [Reich] and Doctor Copernicus think the cathedral will not be a good venue for the consecration, and therefore Dantiscus proposes that it take place in Heilsberg (Lidzbark Warmiński).


            received 1538-08-06

Manuscript sources:
1fair copy in Latin, autograph, address in secretary's hand, BCz, 245, p. 53-56

Prints:
1SIKORSKI 1968 No. 421, p. 106 (Polish register)
2Kopernik na Warmii No. 450, p. 496 (Polish register)
3RC No. 399, p. 172-173 (English register)
4NCG 6/1 No. 121, p. 237-239 (in extenso; German translation)
5CEID 1/2 No. 20, p. 114-115 (in extenso; English register)

 

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BCz, 245, p. 56

Reverendissimo Domino Tidemanno Gise, confirmato Culmensi, fratri et amico carissimo ac honoran(do) or honoran(dissimo)⌈honoran(do)honoran(do) or honoran(dissimo)⌉

BCz, 245, p. 53

Reverendissime Domine, frater et amice carissime et honoran(de) or honoran(dissime)⌈honoran(de)honoran(de) or honoran(dissime)⌉.

Salutem fraternique amoris commendationem plurimam.

Legi exemplum litterarum ad serenissimam maiestatem regiam, quod placuit. Illi me scribendo accurate accomodabo eritque, si in iis maiestas regia cum Ro(mano) pontifice expostulare dignabitur, non nobis, sed fortassis posteris nostris aliquando usui.

De iactura, quam fecimus in hoc vasto Harpyiarum pelago, non est, quod ad nos redditurum speremus, fore tamen auguror, ut paulopost gliscente hoc tempore evomant, quod haec monstra avidius hauserunt etc. Iampridem depuduit ille, quem sui spectatorem litteris suis Dominatio Vestra Reverendissima efficere existimat, hinc etenim sibi magis placebit, nimirum quod tam acutum cernenti imposuerit, verum a sui similibus, quod suo sors feret tempore, quae meretur, accipiet.

Ad mensuras eas, quas Dominatio Vestra Reverendissima misit, curabo, ut fiant illa, de quibus scripsi, neque, si placebunt, deerunt chirotecae cum annulo. Tempus, quando iis rebus intendere queamus, sciet, cum apud ecclesiam meam fuero, quod pro iis absolvendis caeremoniis non actuosa eget celeritate.

Fuit hic pauloante venerabilis dominus Felix cum doctore Nicolao, cum quibus contuli. Iis visum est actum hunc non commode apud ecclesiam posse fieri. Hic igitur Deo bene favente fiat, non tamen extra Dominationis Vestrae Reverendissimae arbitrium.

Quae diutissime in diuturnitate felici valeat.

Ex Heilsberg, IIII Augusti MDXXXVIII.

Reverendissimae Dominationis Vestrae frater integerrimus Ioannes episcopus Varmiensis etc. scripsit