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Letter #2282

Andrzej GÓRKA to Ioannes DANTISCUS
Cracow (Kraków), 1540-03-08
            received Guttstadt (Dobre Miasto), 1540-03-23

Manuscript sources:
1fair copy in Latin, in secretary's hand, author's signature, BCz, 1597, p. 957-960

 

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BCz, 1597, p. 957

Reverendissime in Christo Pater, domine et amice observantissime.

Post officiosissimam mei commendationem.

Ago Reverendissimae Dominationi Vestrae gratias, quod me litteris suis salutaverit. Fuit mihi iucundum simul etiam de Reverendissimae Dominationis Vestrae fausta et incolumi valetudine intelligere. Exposuit mihi nobilis dominus superinscribed⌈dominusdominus superinscribed⌉ Mikołaj Płotowski (†after 1548-07-27), royal courtier and owner of estates in Vistula Lowlands (Żuławy Wiślane); burgrave of Seeburg (Zybork, today Jeziorany) (AT 18, p. 229)⌊Nicolaus PlotowskiMikołaj Płotowski (†after 1548-07-27), royal courtier and owner of estates in Vistula Lowlands (Żuławy Wiślane); burgrave of Seeburg (Zybork, today Jeziorany) (AT 18, p. 229)⌋ servitor Reverendissimae Dominationis Vestrae negotium, quod illi est permolestum, cum quodam improbioris notae Alexander Sculteti (Scholtcze) (*ca. 1485 – †1570), doctor of canon law, cartographer, historian and friend of Copernicus; accused by Dantiscus and Stanisław Hozjusz (Hosius) of Sacramentarian heresy, in 1540 banished by King Sigismund I Jagiellon; in 1541 imprisoned by the Inquisition in Rome; after release from prison in 1544 he stayed in Rome for the rest of his life; 1509-1516 notary at the Roman Curia; 1519-1541 Canon of Ermland (Warmia), 1530-1539 Chancellor of the Ermland Chapter; 1536-1538 administrator of the komornictwo of Mehlsack (Melzak, today Pieniężno) (KOPICZKO 2, p. 299; SBKW, p. 219-220)⌊canonico ecclesiae eiusAlexander Sculteti (Scholtcze) (*ca. 1485 – †1570), doctor of canon law, cartographer, historian and friend of Copernicus; accused by Dantiscus and Stanisław Hozjusz (Hosius) of Sacramentarian heresy, in 1540 banished by King Sigismund I Jagiellon; in 1541 imprisoned by the Inquisition in Rome; after release from prison in 1544 he stayed in Rome for the rest of his life; 1509-1516 notary at the Roman Curia; 1519-1541 Canon of Ermland (Warmia), 1530-1539 Chancellor of the Ermland Chapter; 1536-1538 administrator of the komornictwo of Mehlsack (Melzak, today Pieniężno) (KOPICZKO 2, p. 299; SBKW, p. 219-220)⌋. Qua in re praestiti operam meam, quam potui maiorem, ut Reverendissimae Dominationis Vestrae conceptae de me opinioni et in hoc, et in multo maioribus officiis responderem.

Commendo me Reverendissimae Dominationi Vestrae et opto illam diutissime incolumem valere.