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Letter #2193

Ioannes DANTISCUS to Tiedemann GIESE
Heilsberg (Lidzbark Warmiński), 1539-07-16

English register:

Dantiscus’ messenger [Mauritius] has returned from the court, bringing correspondence and “Melanchthon’s letter to the Venetian Senate”, and other texts. Giese will learn of the events and news from the enclosed letters.

Dantiscus does not feel responsible for the belated dispatch of the [Prussian councillors’] memo to the King [Sigismund I Jagiellon] regarding filling the office [of Castellan of Elbing (Elbląg)]. He thinks everyone could have proceeded individually on the matter.

He awaits Giese’s precise instructions on how he should support his cause.

He sends Giese the King’s letter to the Council of Royal Prussia with a request that he pass it on.




Manuscript sources:
1fair copy in Latin, autograph, BCz, 245, p. 207-210

Auxiliary sources:
1register in Polish, 20th-century, B. PAU-PAN, 8249 (TK 11), f. 119

Prints:
1CEID 1/2 No. 75, p. 265-266 (in extenso; English register)

 

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Reverendissimo in Christo Patri et Domino, domino Tidemanno Dei gratia episcopo Culmensi, fratri et amico carissimo ac honorando

Reverendissime in Christo Pater et Domine, frater et amice carissime et honorande.

Salutem et fraternam commendationem.

Heri is nuntius meus rediit et adiunctas ex aula retulit, ex quibus, quae aguntur et in novis habentur, intelliget. Est et „Epistula Melancthonis ad senatum Venetum”, et nescio quae alia nondum a me lecta.

Quod tardius ad maiestatem regiam de dignitatum distributione relatum est, illi, qui ambiebant, sibi imputent. Non sum debitor meis impensis cuipiam procurare honores, cum ipsi sibi defuerint. Non est, quod mihi impingant serius a me esse ad aulam missum, nimirum cum miserim postero die, quo mihi communes a dominis redditae fuerant litterae.

Si quem eo allegare de suis, ut statuit, Dominatio Vestra Reverendissima voluerit, mature fieri potest. Acceleratione res non eget, priusquam Dominatio Vestra Reverendissima de rebus suis nuper per cancellarium mihi communicatis, quid petendum aut agendum, commode dispexerit. Ea, quae per me vel scribi, vel fieri volet, oportune atque propense aderunt. Litteras regias ad dominos consiliarios palatino alicui transmittendas aliis Dominatio Vestra Reverendissima mittet.

Quam diutissime felicissimeque valere summopere cupio et aveo.

Ex Heilsberg, XVI Iulii MDXXXIX.

Reverendissimae Dominationis Vestrae frater integerrimus Ioannes episcopus Varmiensis etc. scripsit