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Letter #972

Gdańsk Town Council to Ioannes DANTISCUS
Gdańsk (Danzig), 1533-07-08
            received 1533-08-12

Manuscript sources:
1fair copy in German, in secretary's hand, BCz, 1624, p. 77-78
2office copy in German, APG, 300, 27, 13, f. 986

Auxiliary sources:
1register in Polish, 20th-century, B. PAU-PAN, 8247 (TK 9), f. 316

 

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Erwirdigster in / Goth, / genediger herre. /

Unser boreidtwillige und g <e> flissene dinste / szeint Ewer Gnaden / allewege bevoran entpholen. /

Genediger herre. /

Ewer Gnaden cf. Ioannes DANTISCUS to Gdańsk Town Council Löbau (Lubawa), 1533-07-04, CIDTC IDL 4325brieffcf. Ioannes DANTISCUS to Gdańsk Town Council Löbau (Lubawa), 1533-07-04, CIDTC IDL 4325 / ufm schlosse Löbau (Lubawa, Lubavia), town in northern Poland, Kulm Land (Ziemia Chełmińska), ca. 67 km E of Graudenz (Grudziądz), the main seat of the bishops of Kulm (Chełmno)LobawLöbau (Lubawa, Lubavia), town in northern Poland, Kulm Land (Ziemia Chełmińska), ca. 67 km E of Graudenz (Grudziądz), the main seat of the bishops of Kulm (Chełmno) / am vierden Iulii / gegeben / haben wir / mit zcimlicher reverentz entphangen / und den inhalt / mit beschwerten gemutte / vorleszende / eingenommen / und mussen (Eeimes Goth) lawterer mehnunge / der ergangenen fewers, / strof, schmertz und grosze mitleidunge tragen. / Goth der Almechtige welde dys leyth / in gelugselige wolfart und frewde (des wir Ewer Gnaden von hertzen wunschen und gonnen) geruchen zu wandelen. /

Was wir aber, Genediger Herre, / Ewer Gnaden hier bey uns / in seinem Gdańsk (Danzig, Dantiscum), city in northern Poland, on the Bay of Gdańsk at the mouth of the Vistula, on the Baltic, the biggest and wealthiest of the three Great Prussian Cities (Gdańsk, Thorn (Toruń), and Elbing (Elbląg)) with representation in the Council of Royal Prussia; a member of the Hanseatic LeaguevaterlandeGdańsk (Danzig, Dantiscum), city in northern Poland, on the Bay of Gdańsk at the mouth of the Vistula, on the Baltic, the biggest and wealthiest of the three Great Prussian Cities (Gdańsk, Thorn (Toruń), and Elbing (Elbląg)) with representation in the Council of Royal Prussia; a member of the Hanseatic League seinde / zcun ehren / bewisen / haben wir dasselbige / mith unsern geflissenen und angenehmigen dinsten / williglich und gerne gethoen. / Wolde Goth, / so wir mehr wolgefallens / aws zcugetanem unserm gemute Ewer Gnaden hetten ertzeiget / sulde uns zcur beszundern frewde galangen. / Dan es wel Ewer Gnade zu uns der ungeczweifelten und trostlichen zcuvorsicht sein, / wo wir / mith unsern krefften Ewer Gnaden wilfehrig unde angenehmigk <eit> sein konnen ader mogen / sal an uns / kein fleis, / muhe / ader arbeit / hintergelossen werden. /

Mith hulffe des Almechtigen / deme wir Ewer Gnaden lange geszunth mith vormehrunge vil gelugszeligen zcunehmens / mit fleis / befehlen. /

Ewer Gnaden dinstwillige und unvordrossene Gdańsk Town Council burgermeister und rathman der stadt DantczigkGdańsk Town Council

Postscript:

Die copien genediger herre / der legation etc. / haben wir unlangst / an die Thorn Town Council erszamen von ThornThorn Town Council / geschickt, / welche hinfurder / dieselbigen / an die Elbing Town Council ersamen von ElbingeElbing Town Council / zufertigen werden. / Domit sie als denne / an unsern genedigen hern / Mauritius Ferber (*1471 – †1537), doctor of both canon and civil law; from 1507 Canon of Ermland (Warmia) and Lübeck; from 1514 Canon of Trier; 1512-1515 parish priest of the Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Gdańsk (Danzig); from 1516 Custos of Ermland and parish priest of the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Gdańsk; from 1519 Canon of Dorpat; from 1523 Canon of Revel; 1523-1537 Bishop of Ermland (KOPICZKO 2, p. 71-72; SBKW, p. 59-60)bisschoff zcu ErmelanthMauritius Ferber (*1471 – †1537), doctor of both canon and civil law; from 1507 Canon of Ermland (Warmia) and Lübeck; from 1514 Canon of Trier; 1512-1515 parish priest of the Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Gdańsk (Danzig); from 1516 Custos of Ermland and parish priest of the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Gdańsk; from 1519 Canon of Dorpat; from 1523 Canon of Revel; 1523-1537 Bishop of Ermland (KOPICZKO 2, p. 71-72; SBKW, p. 59-60) / awfs furderlichste / zcukommen mogen. /

Datum ut in litteris.