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Letter #5626

Leonard NIEDERHOFF to Ioannes DANTISCUS
Frauenburg (Frombork), 1537-10-09
            received [1537]-10-18

Manuscript sources:
1fair copy in Latin, autograph, AAWO, AB, D. 68, f. 156

Auxiliary sources:
1register in German, 20th-century, B. PAU-PAN, 8248 (TK 10), f. 612

 

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Reverendissime in Christo Pater et Domine, domine clementissime.

Plurimum gratiosas cf. Ioannes DANTISCUS to Leonard NIEDERHOFF before 1537-10-09, CIDTC IDL 6426, letter lost⌊litterascf. Ioannes DANTISCUS to Leonard NIEDERHOFF before 1537-10-09, CIDTC IDL 6426, letter lost⌋ Reverendissimae Dominationis Vestrae novissime recepi, quibus nil aliud, nisi me {me} Reverendissimae Dominationi Vestrae dedo, respondeo.

Ceterum et hoc Reverendissimam Dominationem Vestram scire non indignam puto me ex Rome (Roma), city in central Italy, on the Tiber river, seat of the Holy See⌊UrbeRome (Roma), city in central Italy, on the Tiber river, seat of the Holy See⌋ nuper certificatum in haec verba: expeditionibus episcopatuum, nullo etiam dempto, coguntur esse contenti cum dimidietate fructuum etc. Ita et Cologne diocese (dioecesis Coloniensis)⌊episcopatus ColoniensisCologne diocese (dioecesis Coloniensis)⌋ obtentus fuit, ac ego Reval⌊RevaliensemReval⌋ ante mensem expeditum hic accepi. Praeterea, cum apud me persuasum habeo Reverendissimam Dominationem Vestram nuntium suum et Cracow (Kraków, Cracovia), city in southern Poland, Małopolska, on the Vistula river, from 1038 capital of the Kingdom of Poland⌊CracoviamCracow (Kraków, Cracovia), city in southern Poland, Małopolska, on the Vistula river, from 1038 capital of the Kingdom of Poland⌋, et Rome (Roma), city in central Italy, on the Tiber river, seat of the Holy See⌊RomamRome (Roma), city in central Italy, on the Tiber river, seat of the Holy See⌋ missurum, supplico Reverendissimam Dominationem Vestram, ut has adiungi demandare dignetur alligatas.

Reverendissimam Dominationem Vestram Deus Maximus diu felicissimam ser{c}vet, exoro.

Reverendissimae Dominationis Vestrae Leonard Niederhoff (*ca. 1485 – †1545), doctor of both canon and civil law, friend of Nicolaus Copernicus and executor of his will; studied in Cracow, Leipzig and Rome, where he obtained a doctoral degree; from 1511 parish priest of St. Bartholomew's Church in Gdańsk (Danzig); from 1515 Canon of Ermland (Warmia), and from 1519 Canon of Dorpat; from 1532 Dean of the Ermland Chapter; he also had a canonry in Kulm from which he resigned in 1533. In 1530, after Dantiscus' resignation, became a parish priest of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Gdańsk (KOPICZKO 2, p. 231; SBKW, p. 175)⌊Leonardus NiderhofLeonard Niederhoff (*ca. 1485 – †1545), doctor of both canon and civil law, friend of Nicolaus Copernicus and executor of his will; studied in Cracow, Leipzig and Rome, where he obtained a doctoral degree; from 1511 parish priest of St. Bartholomew's Church in Gdańsk (Danzig); from 1515 Canon of Ermland (Warmia), and from 1519 Canon of Dorpat; from 1532 Dean of the Ermland Chapter; he also had a canonry in Kulm from which he resigned in 1533. In 1530, after Dantiscus' resignation, became a parish priest of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Gdańsk (KOPICZKO 2, p. 231; SBKW, p. 175)⌋ deditissimus servitor