1630

Original Calendar: Unknown.

(As Marked: [1630?] [beginning of the year?]) (uncertain)

Authors

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

Recipients

Mentzel, Abraham, d.1637

Mentions

Andreae, Johann Valentin, 1586-1654

Lochar, Václav, 1582-1656

Mentzel, Abraham, d.1637

Origin

Leszno, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland

(inferred, uncertain)

Abstract

Comenius writes his first letter to Mentzel this year because it is not easy to send a letter to his place. He is sending the letter through brother Lochar. He sends New Year’s wishes to Mentzel and the whole Church. Comenius had a good start into the new year. Schools are reforming for quite some time. These attempts go on well and the golden age promised by prophets is close. Comenius asks Mentzel to pray for his and others endeavour. J. V. Andreae brings lot of light and inspiration to Comenius. However the chief leader is Christ.

Language

Latin

Incipit

Ad M. Abrahamum Mencelium. IESUS lux nostra. Primas ad Te (Vir Cl. frat. honorande) hoc anno meas en tandem! Langventisne amoris indices? Absit, pressi potius [et] in flammam iterum erumpentis, argumentum. Silentio tam diu indulsisse ne mireris.

Excipit

Ipsum proinde, ut omnis nostrae harmoniae inq[ve] ea radicatae beatitudinis, fundamentum [et] centrum unicum, exorare ne intermittamus. [etc.]

Versions (originals, copies, etc)

• Printed copy
  • Printed edition details: ‘Jana Amosa Komenského correspondence’, ed. Adolf Patera (Prague, 1892), no. 4.
• Printed copy
  • Printed edition details: ‘Die pädagogische Reform des Comenius in Deutschland bis zum Ausgange des XVII Jahrhunderts’, ed. Jan Kvačala, in, ‘Monumenta Germaniae Paedagogica’, 26 and 32 (Berlin, 1903-04), no. 8.
• Scribal copy
  • Repository: Knihovna Národního muzea

    City: Praha

    Country: Czech Republic

  • Shelfmark: VIII F 23, ff 1b-2a
  • Paper type or watermark: f. 2a traces
  • Paper size: 209x160
  • Number of pages of document: 3
  • Number of pages of text: 3

Related Resources

‘J. A. Komenský: Soupis rukopisů’, ed. Mirjam Bohatcová (Prague, 1957), p. 30.

‘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. 37.

Comments

• Entry based on: manuscript copy
• Initials of person who compiled entry: MK
• Varia/Notes (incl other copies): Includes Greek words. Exemplar is a model for scribal copy in KNM VI E 11, ff.2b-3b; date and place according to Kvačala, Reform I, 8 (Patera places it to the letters from year 1630]; closing and sign is missing
• Provenance: Archive of the Unity of Brethren, Leszno