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Letter #5775

Nicolaus COPERNICUS to Ioannes DANTISCUS
Frauenburg (Frombork), 1537-09-28
            received [1537]-09-29

Manuscript sources:
1fair copy in Latin, autograph, BCz, 1619, p. 99-100

Auxiliary sources:
1register in Polish, 20th-century, B. PAU-PAN, 8249 (TK 11), f. 147

Prints:
1SZULC 1857 p. 783 (in extenso)
2PRZEŹDZIECKI 1869 p. 138-139 (in extenso; Polish translation)
3Kopernikijana No. 18, p. 87-88 (Polish translation)
4Spicilegium No. 18, p. 204 (in extenso)
5Autografi Tav. VIII (facsimile)
6SIKORSKI 1968 No. 501, p. 129-130 (Polish register)
7Kopernik na Warmii No. 537, p. 512-513 (Polish register)
8RC No. 477, p. 202-203 (English register)
9DREWNOWSKI 1978 No. 15, p. 239 (in extenso; Polish translation)
10COPERNICUS 1992 Rękopisy No. XVI.29-30, p. 16 (facsimile)
11NCG 6/1 No. 178, p. 334-336 (in extenso; German translation)
12COPERNICUS 2007 p. 193 (in extenso)
13COPERNICUS 2007 p. 202 (Polish translation)

 

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Reverendissimo in Christo patri et domino, domino Ioanni Dei gratia episcopo Varmiensi, domino suo clementissimo

Reverendissime in Christo pater et domine, domine clementissime.

Petiit nuper ex me Reverendissima Dominatio Vestra, ut epitaphium quondam Lucae episcopi, antecessoris Reverendissimae Dominationis Vestrae avunculi mei, quod olim a se factum mihi miserat, remitterem Reverendissimae Dominationi Vestrae. Mitto igitur eius exemplum, quoniam de manu propria Reverendissimae Dominationis Vestrae apud me non exstat. Doleo equidem, quod ad usum destinatum non pervenerit, cum iam antea aliud quoddam sepulcro fuisset insculptum parum habens odoris saporisque minus, sed quod procuratum sic erat et paratum illi adhuc in humanis volenti. Cupio et precor Reverendissimae Dominationi Vestrae longaevam valetudinem ad incrementum ecclesiae suae et suorum consolationem, cui servitia mea devoveo.

Ex Gynopoli, XXVIII Septembris Olimpiadis DLXXIX anno primo.

Eidem Reverendissimae Dominationi Vestrae devotissimus Nicolaus Copernicus