08-02-2016, 08:34 AM
What really happened remains uncertain, but one can at least differentiate between what's right and what's wrong.
That 600 ducats would have been an impossible amount is clearly wrong, as the records tell us.
That Marci was in the last stages of senile dementia in August 1665 is at best unproven, and almost certainly wrong. By January 1667 this was a different story.
That Dr.Raphael could not have witnessed the sale is also not correct, if it happened late in Rudolf's reign. In any case it is not relevant, as he certainly had access to, and great interest in Rudolf's manuscripts. He writes this clearly in his 1630 letter to Ferdinand II:
hab viel mühe und zeit in diesem allem von iugendt
auf, wohl über die dreissig iahr zugebracht, emssig [?]
in allen authoribus so ie fürkhummen nachgeschlagen, auch viel in manuscriptis, in charakteribus
et Cifris Rudolphi Imperatoris gelesen, viel desgleichen auch in Bibliothecis Monasteriorum
insonderheit dess Abtn von Brumau und Crembsmünster befunden, aber solche fundamenta und rationes
potentissimas, wie Sendivogius hatt, nie gehört weder gelesen.
That 600 ducats would have been an impossible amount is clearly wrong, as the records tell us.
That Marci was in the last stages of senile dementia in August 1665 is at best unproven, and almost certainly wrong. By January 1667 this was a different story.
That Dr.Raphael could not have witnessed the sale is also not correct, if it happened late in Rudolf's reign. In any case it is not relevant, as he certainly had access to, and great interest in Rudolf's manuscripts. He writes this clearly in his 1630 letter to Ferdinand II:
hab viel mühe und zeit in diesem allem von iugendt
auf, wohl über die dreissig iahr zugebracht, emssig [?]
in allen authoribus so ie fürkhummen nachgeschlagen, auch viel in manuscriptis, in charakteribus
et Cifris Rudolphi Imperatoris gelesen, viel desgleichen auch in Bibliothecis Monasteriorum
insonderheit dess Abtn von Brumau und Crembsmünster befunden, aber solche fundamenta und rationes
potentissimas, wie Sendivogius hatt, nie gehört weder gelesen.