CIDT&C Corpus of Ioannes Dantiscus' Texts & Correspondence

Letter #5774

Nicolaus COPERNICUS to Ioannes DANTISCUS
Frauenburg (Frombork), 1541-06-27

Manuscript sources:

1	fair copy in Latin, autograph, GStA PK, Sammlung Darmstaetder, J. 1530
2	copy, 18th-century, BK, 222, No. 65, p. 213
3	copy in Latin, 18th-century, BCz, 58 (TN), No. 55, p. 263
4	copy in Latin, 19th-century, B. PAU-PAN, 3308, f. 91v

Auxiliary sources:

1	register in Polish, 20th-century, B. PAU-PAN, 8249 (TK 11), f. 338

Prints:

1	Crelle 29 2 p. [1] unnumbered after p. 184 (facsimile)
2	COPERNICUS 1854 p. 593 (in extenso; Polish translation)
3	HIPLER 1857 p. 298 (in extenso)
4	Kopernikijana No. 17, p. 86-87 (Polish translation)
5	Spicilegium No. 21, p. 206 (in extenso)
6	Autografi Tav. IX (bottom of page) (facsimile)
7	PROWE 1884 p. 168 (in extenso)
8	DARMSTAEDTER p. 6 (German translation; facsimile)
9	DE VOCHT 1961 No. DE, 425, p. 339 (in extenso)
10	SIKORSKI 1968 No. 489, p. 126-127 (Polish register)
11	Kopernik na Warmii No. 525, p. 510-511 (Polish register)
12	RC No. 465, p. 197 (English register)
13	DREWNOWSKI 1978 No. 14, p. 238 (in extenso; Polish translation)
14	COPERNICUS 1992 Rękopisy No. XV.27-28, p. 16 (facsimile)
15	Españoles part II, No. 85, p. 263-264 (Spanish translation)
16	NCG 6/1 No. 168, p. 314-316 (in extenso; German translation)
17	COPERNICUS 2007 p. 192-193 (in extenso)
18	COPERNICUS 2007 p. 201 (Polish translation)

Reverendissime in Christo Pater et Domine, domine clementissime.

Accepi cf. Ioannes DANTISCUS to Nicolaus COPERNICUS shortly before 1541-06-27, CIDTC IDL 6834, letter lost⌊litterascf. Ioannes DANTISCUS to Nicolaus COPERNICUS shortly before 1541-06-27, CIDTC IDL 6834, letter lost⌋ Reverendissimae Dominationis Vestrae humanissimas et admodum familiares, quibuscum etiam non dedignata est mittere ad lectorem probably Nicolaus Copernicus, De revolutionibus orbium caelestium, Nuremberg, 1543 ⌊librorum meorumprobably Nicolaus Copernicus, De revolutionibus orbium caelestium, Nuremberg, 1543 ⌋ cf. In Copernici libellum epigramma shortly before 1541-06-27, CIDTC IDP 57⌊epigrammacf. In Copernici libellum epigramma shortly before 1541-06-27, CIDTC IDP 57⌋ elegans sane et ad rem, non meis meritis, sed Reverendissimae Dominationis Vestrae benevolentia singulari, qua studiosos prosequi solet. Ipsum igitur Reverendissimae Dominationis Vestrae titulum probably Nicolaus Copernicus, De revolutionibus orbium caelestium, Nuremberg, 1543 ⌊operiprobably Nicolaus Copernicus, De revolutionibus orbium caelestium, Nuremberg, 1543 ⌋ meo in fastigio praeponam, si modo dignum sit opus, quod a Reverendissima Dominatione Vestra exornari tantopere mereatur. Quod tamen dictitant me doctiores esse aliquid, quibus obsequi decet. Ego vero singularem benevolentiam et affectum erga me paternum, quo me prosequi non cessat Reverendissima Dominatio Vestra, quantum in me est, promereri eique in omnibus, quibus possum, uti debeo, servire et obsequi cupio.