» CORPUS of Ioannes Dantiscus' Texts & Correspondence
Copyright © Laboratory for Source Editing and Digital Humanities AL UW

All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording or any other information storage and retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publisher.

Letter #3906

[Ioannes DANTISCUS] to [Stephanus TOBIE?]
Heilsberg (Lidzbark Warmiński), 1543-11-09

English register: Ioannes Dantiscus, through a servant of the Bishop of Kulm [Tiedemann Giese], sends the friars 8 Marks as alms, to be used to buy a barrel of herring to feed the friars during Advent. He asks the addressee and his fellow friars to pray for him and his deceased near and dear; he sends special greetings to the addressee’s predecessor, Friar Petrus.


Manuscript sources:
1rough draft in Latin, autograph, AAWO, AB, D. 7, f. 15r (t.p.)

 

Text & apparatus & commentaryPlain textText & commentaryText & apparatus

 

AAWO, AB, D. 7, f. 15r

Relligiose Frater in Christo nobis dilecte.

Mittimus vobis in elemosinam superinscribed⌈in elemosinamin elemosinam superinscribed⌉ per hunc reverendissimi domini Culmensis episcopi superinscribed⌈episcopiepiscopi superinscribed⌉ puerum consignatas marcas octo, ut vas piscium, quos alec vocant, pro instante Adventu fratribus in usum et victum fratrum habere possitis. Pro qua parva benevolentiae nostrae significatione, nihil aliud a vobis petimus, quam ut dominum Deum pro nobis, proque superinscribed⌈queque superinscribed⌉ ... illegible⌈...... illegible⌉ animabus fidelibus defunctis on the margin⌈fidelibus defunctisfidelibus defunctis on the margin⌉, quibus nos debitores sumus, orare non desinatis.

Bene valete et superinscribed⌈etet superinscribed⌉ praedecessorem vestrum fratrem Petrum fratresque omnes nostro more salutabitis.

Dat(ae) or Dat(um)⌈Dat(ae)Dat(ae) or Dat(um)⌉ ex arce nostra Heilsberg, IX Novembris MDXLIII.