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Letter #5148

Ioannes DANTISCUS to Joachim von WATT (VADIANUS)
Freiburg, 1518-12-17


Manuscript sources:
1fair copy in Latin, autograph, VSSG, Ms 30, f. 46
2copy in Latin, 18th-century, ZB, Simlerische Sammlung, MS, vol. 3c, No. 40
3register in Latin, 18th-century, ZB, Simlerische Sammlung, Reg., Vol. 1, f. 125.b

Prints:
1ARBENZ 1913 30a No. 7, p. 11-12 (in extenso; German register)

 

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VSSG, Ms. 30, f. 46v

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VSSG, Ms. 30, f. 46r

Ioannes Dantiscus etc. Ioachimo Vadiano etc. salutem.

Cum nuper peregrinandi, ut nostri dicunt, causa per The Swiss ⌊HelvetiosThe Swiss ⌋, ubique Te quaerebam, irem, nemo fuit, qui, ubi esses aut ageres, me edocere potuit. Pro summo meo in Te amore, quo Te plus quam dici potest prosequor, Te libenter convenissem. Quocumque igitur me verti et alicuius litteraturae hominem offendi, primum, quod loqui incoepi, Vadianus fuit. Sed nullus per hoc iter, quis esses, scivit. Postremo huc diverti repperique quosdam meos comites, viros nobilissimos, qui superioribus annis una mecum in Syria⌊SyriamSyria⌋ navigarunt. Illorum opera familiaritatem cum viro eruditissimo expertissimoque domino Peter Falk (*ca. 1468 – †1519)⌊Petro FalconePeter Falk (*ca. 1468 – †1519)⌋, huius urbis praefecto, contraxi, cum quo dum pro illius in me humanitate facerem verba plurima, Tui obiter incidit mentio. Quamgratum mihi fuerit, quod homo iste candidissimus Te noverit, explicare nequeo. Unde dum eum intentum viderem, ut sciret, quis essem, remisi eum ad commentaria Tua in Titus Pomponius Mela (Pomponius Mela) (†ca. 45 AD), Roman geographer, author of "De situ orbis libri tres"⌊Pomponium MelamTitus Pomponius Mela (Pomponius Mela) (†ca. 45 AD), Roman geographer, author of "De situ orbis libri tres"⌋, quae a Te dono acceperat.

Multum Tibi debere, carissime Vadiane, quamdiu in vivis sum, fatebor, quod tam amico iudicio me doctissimis Tuis scriptis immortalem reddideris. Dabitur vicissim a me opera, si olim quicquam ingenio hoc meo, qualecumque est, eniti possum, non, ut dici solet, mulus mulum etc., quo Tibi ex vero et sincero de Te iudicio non ingratus videbor. Sed haec hactenus. Ut scias, quae me causa huc coegerit: ingressus sum iter in ultimas Spain (Hispania)⌊HispaniasSpain (Hispania)⌋ ad Santiago de Compostela (Compostella)⌊sancti Iacobi sarcophagumSantiago de Compostela (Compostella)⌋[1] et spero

Freta deo virtus fortunam vincet iniquam
Duraque post faciet mitia fata mihi.

Tu interea absens absentem memori sub pectore conde. Sis memor ipse mei, contra memor ipse manebo. Si quandoque feliciter, quod Deus Optimus Maximus faxit, rediero, Te non viso nequaquam ab The Swiss ⌊HelvetiisThe Swiss ⌋ solvam. Vale et Dantiscum Te plurimum diligentem et observantem ama.