On the Provenance of a Prague Copy of Copernicus's De Revolutionibus

Rosen Edward , “In defense of Tycho Brahe”, Archive for history of exact sciences, xxix (1981), 257–65.

Gingerich Owen , An annotated census of Copernicus’ De revolutionibus (Nuremberg, 1543 and Basel, 1566) (Leiden 2002).

Horský Zdeněk (ed.), Nicolai Copernici De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri sex (editio Basileensis) cum commentariis manu scriptis Tychonis Brahe (Editio Cimelia Bohemica, xvi; Prague, 1971).

Rosen , op. cit. (ref. 1), 257.

Rosen , op. cit. (ref. 1), 264.

rendered Rosen ‘Capitaneatum’ as ‘magistracy’ (on the authority of Birkenmajer, see Rosen, op. cit. (ref. 1), 264, footnote 54). Yet, Capitaneus/Landeshauptmann being a historical position/office of king's chief representative in a land, it seems that ‘reeve’ might be a better translation, although Moorhouse and Davies (cf. Roger Moorhouse and Norman Davies, Microcosm: Portrait of a central European city (London, 2002), 143) render this term as “the office of ‘Regional Governor’”.

Rosen , op. cit. (ref. 1), 264.

Markgraf Hermann and Frenzel Otto (eds), Breslauer Stadtbuch Enthaltend die Rathslinie von 1287 ab und Urkunden zur Verfassungsgeschichte der Stadt (Codex Diplomaticus Silesiae, xi; Breslau 1882).

Ibid., 53.

Ibid., 53–9.

Ibid., 56.

Ibid., pp. XXXVIII-XLI, espec. p. XL.

See e.g. Schellenberg Alfred , Schlesisches Wappenbuch, i (Goerlitz, 1938), col. 60.

Blazek Conrad , J. Siebmacher's grosses und allgemeines Wappenbuch, vi/8,: Der Abgestorbene Adel der Preussischen Provinz Schlesien, Part 2 (Nürnberg, 1890), 54.

Steinberg Nicolaus , Elegia in sacrum nuptiale viri nobilis et magnifici Dn. Abrahami Ienckvvicii … ac Nobiliss. & præstantissimæ fœminæ Annæ Heugelin … (Wrocław, 1593).

Pusch Oskar , Die Breslauer Rats- und Stadtgeschlechter in der Zeit von 1241 bis 1741, ii (Dortmund, 1986), 320.

Clusius Correspondence Online. media.leidenuniv.nl/legacy/clusius_correspondence_database.pdf. Accessed 16 October 2013.

Rosen , op. cit. (ref. 1), 264.

Blazek , op. cit. (ref. 16), 54.

Rosen , op. cit. (ref. 1), 265.

Ibid., 264.

Currently in progress.

Rosen , op. cit. (ref. 1), 257.

cf. e.g. Moorehouse and Davis, op. cit. (ref. 7) or Pusch, op. cit. (ref. 18), 320; also Schlesische Lebensbilder (Breslau, 1931), iv, 115–16. Interestingly enough Karl Gustav Heinrich Berner, Schlesische Landesleute (Leipzig, 1901) gives no information about Jenckwitz either.

Although it is known that during his youth (i.e. in the 1550s) Jenckwitz was quite closely associated with Carol Clusius (see Clusius Correspondence Online), Johannes Crato von Krafftheim, Hubert Languet, and Thomas Rehdiger, see e.g. Johann Franz Albert Gillet, Crato von Crafftheim und seine Freunde (Frankfurt/Main, 1860), i, 47.