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Letter #1667

Alexander SCULTETI to Ioannes DANTISCUS
Frauenburg (Frombork), 1537-07-11
            received [1537]-07-15

Manuscript sources:
1fair copy in Latin, autograph, AAWO, AB, D. 4, f. 127

Auxiliary sources:
1register in German, 20th-century, B. PAU-PAN, 8248 (TK 10), f. 500

 

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AAWO, AB, D. 4, f. 127v

Reverendissimo in Christo Patri et Domino, domino Ioanni Dei gratia <episcopo> Culmensi et administratori Pomezaniensi, domino meo observandissimo et gratioso

AAWO, AB, D. 4, f. 127r

Humili commendatione cum obsequiorum meorum exhibitione praemissa.

Reverendissime in Christo Pater et Domine, domine colendissime.

Iniunctum fuit mihi nudiustertius munus legationis obeundae in Cracow (Kraków, Cracovia), city in southern Poland, Małopolska, on the Vistula river, from 1038 capital of the Kingdom of PolandCracoviamCracow (Kraków, Cracovia), city in southern Poland, Małopolska, on the Vistula river, from 1038 capital of the Kingdom of Poland, quod tametsi viribus meis accomodum non est, detrectare tamen nequivi. Statui itaque hinc ire 1537-07-18XVIII huius Iulii1537-07-18 recta ad Dominationem Vestram Reverendissimam in 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)LubaviamLöbau (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) concessurus, ita ut ibi sum 1537-07-19feria quinta1537-07-19 ad vesperam atque de omnibus, quae in rem Dominationis Vestrae Reverendissimae erunt, latius locuturus.

Quam haec pro officio et studio meis erga Dominationem Vestram Reverendissimam nolui celare

Me eidem interim sinceriter commendando.

Eiusdem Reverendissimae Dominationi Vestrae deditissimus 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)Alexander ScultetiAlexander 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)