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Jakob Fehr: Epistola ad Henricum Bullingerum

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This letter is from Jakob Fehr, a minister in a city under threat from the emperor, to Heinrich Bullinger, chief minister of the Zurich church. Fehr reports that Paul of Kempten, on his recent return, praised Bullinger’s kindness to him. Now Johannes, the bearer, is setting out for Zurich, and Fehr takes the opportunity to tell Bullinger of their troubles: the imperial forces threaten to besiege and destroy their city and have prepared exquisite torments for them, but the citizens have so far stood firm. The emperor has granted a truce of twelve days, after which, unless they consent and submit to his Interim, it will be all over with them.

They pray earnestly that their Father in heaven will look upon the threats and hear the blasphemous words of Sennacherib, trusting in his help so that they care nothing for the thunder and lightning of the papists. The letter, about 260 words, conveys the fear and defiance in the south German Protestant cities as the Augsburg Interim was enforced in 1548.

About this edition. The Latin text comes from Corpus Corporum, the Latin text repository of the University of Zurich (edition: Institut für Schweizerische Reformationsgeschichte, Institut für Computerlinguistik, Universität Zürich. The online edition is based on the cited book…), reused with attribution for non-commercial purposes (CC BY-NC-SA). Every word has been analyzed with LatinCy, a neural language model for Latin — click or tap any word for its dictionary form, part of speech, and complete morphology, together with the full entry from Lewis & Short’s A Latin Dictionary.

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Epistola ad Henricum Bullingerum
Jakob Fehr · every word parsed
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Gratiam et pacem a domino per Iesum Christum.
Doctissime Hainrice, Paulus Campidonensis tuam erga se humanitatem summopere michi commendauit nuper rediens, sciscitans, num quid interim accidisset, quod Tiguri egisset, compertaque rerediit ad suos 21. Interea optato uenit ad me Iohannes noster praesentium lator indicans se itineri sese accinxisse Tigurum uersus. Nacta itaque oportunitate nolui te latere, in quibus erumnis uersemur; minantur Cesareani obsidionem et euersionem urbis nostre, nobis autem exquisitissima tormenta parata, nostrates uero hactenus inconcussi perstant. Inducie duodecim dierum a Cesare statute, quibus euolutis ni consentiamus ac suo Interim nos subdamus, actum de nobis esse inquiunt. Nos ardentissimis precibus patrem nostrum in celis precamur, respicere in minas eorum uelit et audire omnia uerba Senacherib blasphemantem se, cuius auxilio freti ne pili facimus tonitrua, fulmina, coruscationes papisticas. Maior est, qui in nobis est, quam qui in mundo. Spero, optime uir, nos haudquaquam flectendos, sed duraturos in finem precibus ecclesie tue fulti, cui causam nostram commendari maximopere cupimus. Preterea uobis consultum iri optamus, ne Hispanicis technis aereque proditorio adobruti similibus casibus inuoluamini. In Excubiis, uir bone, crede mihi, uobis standum. Tenduntur uobis insidie; admonitos uos uelim.
Paratur exercitus contra uos idque clam; uigilandum profecto. Perpendite, quid Ißprugii in uos moliatur, quid princeps non longe ab Argentina, quid copie circumcirca.
Ferunt Cesaris filium ingentissimas copias secum allaturum. mentem tenes; calamo non omnia commitenda enim.
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Uale, mi Hanrice, et saluta meo ac uxoris mee nomine uxorem tuam et Theodorum Bibliandrum conterraneum et fratres in domino singulos.
Tuus ex animo Iacobus Fer.
Lindauie 14. iulii anno 48.
Pietate ac multiiuga erudicione prestanti domino Hainrico Bullingero, ecclesie Tigurine antistiti, amico suo charissimo.
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Text: Perseus Digital Library, licensed CC BY-SA. Dictionary: Lewis & Short (Perseus, CC BY-SA). Morphology: LatinCy — machine parsing, corrected against the AGDT & PROIEL treebanks and Morpheus.
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