2 April 1664

Original Calendar: Unknown.

Authors

Komenský, Jan Amos, 1592-1670 Moravian pedagogue and pansophist

Recipients

Redinger, Johannes Jacob, 1619-1688 Swiss pedagogue

Mentions

Drabík, Mikuláš, 1587-1671

Frederick V, Elector Palatine, 1596-1632 Frederick V, Count Palatine of the Rhine and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire; Frederick I, King of Bohemia (1619-20)

Hoburg, Christian, 1607-1675 German Mystic

Kotter, Christoph, 1585-1647

Kregel, Johann visionary

Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715 King of France

Melisch, Stephan, d.1676 Visionary

Rupert, Prince and count palatine of the Rhine, 1619-1682 Prince and count palatine of the Rhine and duke of Cumberland; royalist army and naval officer; son of Frederick V (1596-1632), elector palatine of the Rhine, and his wife, Elizabeth (1596-1662)

Ulrich, Johann Jacob, 1602-1668 professor of theology, Zurich

Origin

Amsterdam, North Holland, (United Provinces) Netherlands

Destination

Frankenthal, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, (Holy Roman Empire)

Abstract

Comenius sends additional prophecies of Drabicius, Meliš, Kotter and Kregel as well as the beginning of Hoburg's “Regenspurgischer Herold” in a number of copies. Addressee should not deal with the French king on his own. God woke up an excellent man in England, a Catholic, who will hand over the prophecies in person. The success of the edition of revelations on the mainland as well as in England is considerable.

Language

Latin

Incipit

Dilecte in Deo amice, Tuae 10 Martij (st. novo) datae redditae mihi sunt 21 ejusdem: ad quas hodie rescribendi subita occasio datur.

Excipit

Quando fatis destinata veniunt tempora, omnia se disponunt ipsamet. Vale (nec [e]n[im] ad alia, quae scribis, respondere nunc vacat) Raptim, 2 april. (21 Martij) 1664. M. nota.

Postscript

Melischii ultima fuerat 5 Martij...Nihil nisi suspiro: et tu mecum. V.

Versions (originals, copies, etc)

• Letter
  • Repository: Staatsarchiv des Kantons Zürich

    City: Zürich

    Country: Switzerland

  • Shelfmark: A 24.1
• Printed copy
  • Printed edition details: ‘Korrespondence Jana Amosa Komenského’, ed. Jan Kvačala (Prague, 1898), vol. 1. , no. 243.
• Printed copy
  • Printed edition details: ‘Joh. Jak. Redinger und seine Beziehungen zu Johann Amos Comenius. Eine historisch-pädagogische Skizze aus dem XVII. Jahrhundert’, ed. Friedrich Zollinger (Zürich, 1905), appendix no. 1, Korrespondenz des Comenius mit Redinger, no. 1, pp. 157-158.

Related Resources

‘Přehled korespondence Jana Amose Komenského’, ed. Mirjam Bohatcová, Marta Bečková, Marie Kyralová and Josef Hejnic, in ‘Časopis Národního muzea: řada historická’, 147, 1-2 (1978), p. 49.

Comments

• Entry based on: manuscript copy