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Letter of Calvin

Calvin → Viret

4 January 1551 (Genevae pridie nonas Ianuar. 1551)
Geneva
Lausanne
lat
Calvin
Calvin
V
Viret

Incipit & Explicit

Incipit:

Quid dicemus, mi Virete, nisi homines istos spiritu Dei privatos desipere?

Correspondent Details

Author / Sender Calvin
Recipient Viret

Date

Date 4 January 1551
Date as marked Genevae pridie nonas Ianuar. 1551

Places

Origin (place of writing) Geneva
Origin as marked Genevae
Destination Lausanne
Destination as marked Lausannensis

Language

Language(s) lat

Manuscript & Print Witnesses

Autograph Letter Signed Geneva BPU Ms. lat. 107a, fol. 40
CO
14 no 1429
B III 61, p. 84 S
Bern StA
P
Viret, Epistolae
S
Geneva BPU
Ms. lat. 111, fol. 246
S
Zürich ZB

Additional Metadata

Translation Bonnet 2 no 271 (p. 289-91); Schwarz 2 no 307 (p. 536-37)
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