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Letter #4842

Ioannes DANTISCUS to Ermland (Warmia) Chapter
Cracow (Kraków), 1543-05-16

English register:

Dantiscus has learned that the canons have seen the papal privileges by which Jan Loitz was admitted as coadjutor to Nicolaus Copernicus. He adds his vote and support for this candidacy and requests that Loitz be installed as a canon, provided that this accords with the law.




Manuscript sources:
1fair copy in Latin, in secretary's hand, GStA PK, XX. HA Hist. StA Königsberg, HBA, C 1a, K. 497

Prints:
1SIKORSKI 1968 No. 521b, p. 137 (Polish register)
2Kopernik na Warmii No. 561, p. 517 (Polish register)
3RC No. 497, p. 211 (English register)
4NCG 6/1 No. 191, p. 354-355 (in extenso; German translation)
5BONK 1912 No. 95, p. 187-188 (in extenso; German register)

 

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Venerabiles Domini, fratres sincere dilecti.

Accepimus Fraternitates Vestras diplomata vidisse apostolica, quibus venerabili domino Nicolaus Copernicus (Mikołaj Kopernik) (*1473 – †1543), humanist, physician, and astronomer; doctor of canon law; nephew of Łukasz Watzenrode, Bishop of Ermland (Warmia); 1497–1543 Canon of Ermland; 1511–1513, 1520, 1524–1525, and 1529 Chancellor of the Ermland Chapter; 1523 capitular administrator of the Ermland bishopric after the death of Fabian von Lusian (Łuzjański) (KOPICZKO 2, p. 161; SBKW, p. 123-124)⌊Nicolao CoppernickNicolaus Copernicus (Mikołaj Kopernik) (*1473 – †1543), humanist, physician, and astronomer; doctor of canon law; nephew of Łukasz Watzenrode, Bishop of Ermland (Warmia); 1497–1543 Canon of Ermland; 1511–1513, 1520, 1524–1525, and 1529 Chancellor of the Ermland Chapter; 1523 capitular administrator of the Ermland bishopric after the death of Fabian von Lusian (Łuzjański) (KOPICZKO 2, p. 161; SBKW, p. 123-124)⌋, canonico Varmiensi, fratri sincere nobis dilecto, admissus est in coadiutorem honestus Jan Loitz (Loisse, Lewsze) (*1531), cousin of Nicolaus Copernicus; 1543-1562 Ermland Canon (SBKW, p. 153)⌊Ioannes LeusseJan Loitz (Loisse, Lewsze) (*1531), cousin of Nicolaus Copernicus; 1543-1562 Ermland Canon (SBKW, p. 153)⌋, quem et nos accedentibus votis Fraternitatum Vestrarum praesente hoc nostro suffragio, quantum de iure licet, admittimus et a Fraternitatibus Vestris admitti postulamus.

Quae feliciter valeant.