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Letter #4844

Ioannes DANTISCUS to Ermland (Warmia) Chapter
Heilsberg (Lidzbark), 1543-09-13

English register:

Dantiscus is displeased that a woman [Anna Schilling] who has been banned from residing within the bishop’s domain has now moved to estates belonging to the chapter. He fears that she may lead one of the canons astray, as she has already done with one of them, the recently deceased [Nicolaus Copernicus]. Although the decision to permit anyone to reside on chapter estates belongs to the chapter, in his opinion it is better to stay away from a person who, as they know, has brought disgrace upon the diocese.




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. 532, p. 140-141 (Polish register)
2Kopernik na Warmii No. 572, p. 519-520 (Polish register)
3RC No. 508, p. 215 (English register)
4NCG 6/1 No. 198, p. 365-366 (in extenso; German translation)

 

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Venerabiles Domini, fratres sincere dilecti.

Quod Anna Schilling ⌊illaAnna Schilling ⌋, cui dicio nostra est interdicta, ad Fraternitates Vestras se contulerit quibuscumque etiam de causis, non admodum probamus, verendum enim est, ne, quibus modis dementavit 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)⌊illumNicolaus 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)⌋, qui paulo ante e vivis cessit, quempiam alium e Fraternitatibus Vestris occupet. Quod, si illi apud vestrates commorationem concedere statuerint, in Fraternitatum Vestrarum est arbitrio, satius tamen esse putaremus longius arcere, quam admittere eiusmodi pestis contagionem, quae quantum decori Ermland (Warmia, Varmia), diocese and ecclesiastical principality in northeastern Poland, 1466-1772 within the Kingdom of Poland, Royal Prussia⌊ecclesiae nostraeErmland (Warmia, Varmia), diocese and ecclesiastical principality in northeastern Poland, 1466-1772 within the Kingdom of Poland, Royal Prussia⌋ obfuerit, Fraternitatibus Vestris non est incognitum.

Quas feliciter valere optamus.