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Letter #3262

[Ioannes DANTISCUS] to Johann HANNAU Jr
Heilsberg (Lidzbark), 1547-11-18

English register:

Dantiscus has offered sufficient reply to the addressee’s news regarding Alexander [Sculteti] in the letter of 16 November, conveying what had been written to him on this matter from the court of King [Sigismund I Jagiellon]. The addressee will learn from that letter that the situation is quite different from what Alexander’s allies are circulating.

It was no trouble for Dantiscus to write to Johann von Werden regarding the matter of the house in Gdańsk (Danzig) held by the addressee and his brothers [Kaspar, Simon, Valentin]. If Werden exerts effort in this matter for Dantiscus’ sake, Dantiscus will be pleased. He assures the addressee that he will continue to assist him and his brothers.

Dantiscus does not mind that Valentin, the addressee’s brother, is looking after his health by using the services of a physician [Andreas Peltzer]. He only wishes that the physician were able to restore him to much-desired health.




Manuscript sources:
1rough draft in Latin, in secretary's hand, AAWO, AB, D. 70, f. 333v (t.p.)

Auxiliary sources:
1register in Polish, 20th-century, B. PAU-PAN, 8250 (TK 12), f. 498

 

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Ioanni Hannovio

Venerabilis etc.

Quae Fraternitas Vestra de Alexandro scripsit, ad ea XVI huius sufficienter communicando illi, quae ex aula regis de eadem causa ad nos scripta erant, respondimus. Unde facile intelliget rem longe secus se habere, quam fautores Alexandri iactitant.

Nec fuit molestum nobis in causa , quam Fraternitas Vestra cum suis fratribus Gedani ratione aedium habet, ad dominum Ioannem a Werdenn scribere. Qui utinam nomine nostro non gravatim operam suam causae illi, quod eum facturum esse non dubitamus, impenderet, esset hoc nobis profecto gratissimum. Et si posthac Fraternitati Vestrae et eiusdem fratribus in multis prodesse poterimus, non sumus illis operam nostram denegaturi.

Quod Valentinus, frater Fraternitatis Vestrae, valetudinis suae curam gerit et opera medici utitur, nobis non displicet, modo eam sanitatem, quam cupit, illi medicus restituere posset.

Fraternitatem Vestram bene valere cupimus.

Datae ex arce nostra Heilsberg, XVIII Novembris MDXLVII.