Kircher Correspondence Manuscripts

Correspondence and Manuscripts of Athanasius Kircher not included in APUG 555-568

A preliminary checklist

Compiled by Michael John Gorman and Nick Wilding, supplemented by Iva LelkovaUpdated: August 4 2010

1. Correspondence and manuscripts of Athanasius Kircher arranged according to location

Augsburg, Staats- und Stadtbibliothek

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Spizel, Gottlieb, 11 July 1671, Augsburg, Staats- und Stadtbibliothek.Call Number: 2o Cod. Aug. 408 fol. 171-172Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 155.

Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Voit von Salzburg, Melchior Otto Prince bishop, 2 May 1646, Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek.Call Number: Mss. misc. 70/20d

Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 155.

Basel, Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Buxtorf, Johann, 6 January 1638, Basel, Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität.Call Number: to be checkedNotes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 153

2. ———. Letter to Buxtorf, Johann, 2 January 1639, Basel, Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität.Call Number: to be checkedNotes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 153

3. ———. Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 17 October 1661, Basel, Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität.Call Number: to be checkedNotes: Published in H. A. Langenmantel, Fasciculus, pp. 26-30. Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152

4. ———. Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 22 July 1662, Basel, Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität.Call Number: to be checkedNotes: Published in H. A. Langenmantel, Fasciculus, pp. 1-3 (Langenmantel gives as the recipient Lukas Schroek the Elder). Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152

Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Darmstaedter Dokumentensammlung

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Hevelius, Johann, 22 February 1653, Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Darmstaedter Dokumentensammlung.Call Number: F. 2.c 1646 (1)Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 154

2. ———. Letter to Hevelius, Johann, 30 January 1655, Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Darmstaedter Dokumentensammlung.Call Number: F. 2.c 1646 (1)Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 154. Published in J.E. Olhoff, Excerpta, p. 19. C.G. von Murr, ed., Journal, XVII (1789) 315

Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to to be checked, to be checked, Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz.

Call Number: Depot Breslau 17Notes: From Kristeller, Iter italicum

2. ———. Letter to to be checked, to be checked, Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz.Call Number: Autographensammlung Darmstaedter, exact shelf mark to be checkedNotes: From Kristeller, Iter italicum

Carpentras, Bibliothèque de Carpentras

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Ferrand, Jean, 4 June 1633, Carpentras, Bibliothèque de Carpentras.Call Number: Mss. de Peiresc, II. f. 402Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 153

Castiglione, Archivio di Castiglione delle Stiviere

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Gonzaga, Ferdinando Giovanni di, 6 July 1659, Castiglione, Archivio di Castiglione delle Stiviere.Call Number: Busta 241, cartella XLIII, no. 2, ff. non-num.Notes: Italian, Autograph. Cartella labelled: "Lettere delli PP Olderico Gheringo, et Atanasio Kircher Giesuiti supremo Professore di Matematica. 1659-1670". Also contains ms. list of Kircher's printed works. Information and photocopy from Guido Rebecchini

2. ———. Letter to Gonzaga, Ferdinando Giovanni di, 26 July 1659, Castiglione, Archivio di Castiglione delle Stiviere.Call Number: Busta 241, cartella XLIII, no. 3, ff. non-num.Notes: Italian, Autograph. Cartella labelled: "Lettere delli PP Olderico Gheringo, et Atanasio Kircher Giesuiti supremo Professore di Matematica. 1659-1670". Also contains ms. list of Kircher's printed works. Information and photocopy from Guido Rebecchini

3. ———. Letter to Gonzaga, Ferdinando Giovanni di, 19 November 1659, Castiglione, Archivio di Castiglione delle Stiviere.Call Number: Busta 241, cartella XLIII, no. 4, ff. non-num.Notes: Italian, signature autograph. Cartella labelled: "Lettere delli PP Olderico Gheringo, et Atanasio Kircher Giesuiti supremo Professore di Matematica. 1659-1670". Also contains ms. list of Kircher's printed works. Information and photocopy from Guido Rebecchini

4. ———. Letter to Gonzaga, Ferdinando Giovanni di, 28 October 1660, Castiglione, Archivio di Castiglione delle Stiviere.Call Number: Busta 241, cartella XLIII, no. 5, ff. non-num.Notes: Italian, autograph. Cartella labelled: "Lettere delli PP Olderico Gheringo, et Atanasio Kircher Giesuiti supremo Professore di Matematica. 1659-1670". Also contains ms. list of Kircher's printed works. Information and photocopy from Guido Rebecchini


6. ———. Letter to Gonzaga, Ferdinando Giovanni di, 2 May 1661, Castiglione, Archivio di Castiglione delle Stiviere.Call Number: Busta 241, cartella XLIII, no. 7, ff. non-num.Notes: Italian, autograph. Cartella labelled: "Lettere delli PP Olderico Gheringo, et Atanasio Kircher Giesuiti supremo Professore di Matematica. 1659-1670". Also contains ms. list of Kircher's printed works. Information and photocopy from Guido Rebecchini

7. ———. Letter to Gonzaga, Ferdinando Giovanni di, 12 September 1664, Castiglione, Archivio di Castiglione delle Stiviere.Call Number: Busta 241, cartella XLIII, no. 8, ff. non-num.

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Notes: Italian, autograph. Cartella labelled: "Lettere delli PP Olderico Gheringo, et Atanasio Kircher Giesuiti supremo Professore di Matematica. 1659-1670". Also contains ms. list of Kircher's printed works. Information and photocopy from Guido Rebecchini

8. ———. Letter to Gonzaga, Ferdinando Giovanni di, 14 March 1665, Castiglione, Archivio di Castiglione delle Stiviere.Call Number: Busta 241, cartella XLIII, no. 9, ff. non-num.Notes: Italian, autograph. Cartella labelled: "Lettere delli PP Olderico Gheringo, et Atanasio Kircher Giesuiti supremo Professore di Matematica. 1659-1670". Also contains ms. list of Kircher's printed works. Information and photocopy from Guido Rebecchini

9. ———. Letter to Gonzaga, Ferdinando Giovanni di, 16 January 1666, Castiglione, Archivio di Castiglione delle Stiviere.Call Number: Busta 241, cartella XLIII, no. 10, ff. non-num.Notes: Italian, autograph. Cartella labelled: "Lettere delli PP Olderico Gheringo, et Atanasio Kircher Giesuiti supremo Professore di Matematica. 1659-1670". Also contains ms. list of Kircher's printed works. Information and photocopy from Guido Rebecchini

10. ———. Letter to Gonzaga, Ferdinando Giovanni di, 28 January 1668, Castiglione, Archivio di Castiglione delle Stiviere.Call Number: Busta 241, cartella XLIII, no. 11, ff. non-num.Notes: Italian, signature autograph. Cartella labelled: "Lettere delli PP Olderico Gheringo, et Atanasio Kircher Giesuiti supremo Professore di Matematica. 1659-1670". Also contains ms. list of Kircher's printed works. Information and photocopy from Guido Rebecchini

11. ———. Letter to Gonzaga, Ferdinando Giovanni di, 18 January 1670, Castiglione, Archivio di Castiglione delle Stiviere.Call Number: Busta 241, cartella XLIII, no. 12, ff. non-num.Notes: Italian. Cartella labelled: "Lettere delli PP Olderico Gheringo, et Atanasio Kircher Giesuiti supremo Professore di Matematica. 1659-1670". Also contains ms. list of Kircher's printed works. Information and photocopy from Guido Rebecchini

12. Kircher, Athanasius, and Uldarico Gheringo. Letter to Gonzaga, Ferdinando Giovanni di, 6 December 1659, Castiglione, Archivio di Castiglione delle Stiviere.Call Number: Busta 241, cartella XLIII, no. 13, ff. non-num.Notes: Italian, signature autograph Much illegible on photocopy due to ink bleed-through. Cartella labelled: "Lettere delli PP Olderico Gheringo, et Atanasio Kircher Giesuiti supremo Professore di Matematica. 1659-1670". Also contains ms. list of Kircher's printed works. Information and photocopy from Guido Rebecchini

Copenhagen, Kongelige Bibliothek

1. Kircher, Athanasius. "De Artis Magneticae.", Copenhagen, Kongelige Bibliothek.Call Number: Thott 217Notes: Cited in Kristeller, Iter Italicum

Copenhagen, Rigsarkivet, Tyske Kancellis Udenrigs-Afdeling, almindelig del, 3: Diverse sager vedrørende hele tiden til 1770, nr. 56-59. Breve fra udenlandske universitetre og "Laerde maend" ca. 1530-1690

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Danish king Frederik III, 14 January 1654, Copenhagen, Rigsarkivet, Call Number: Tyske Kancelli, Udenrigske Afdeling, Breve fra udenlandske universiteter og lærde mænd 1530-1770, parcel 3-057, F-L [i.e. German Chancery, Foreign Department, Letters from foreign universities and learned men 1530-1770, parcel 3-057, letters from persons alphabetized from F to L].Notes: Cited in Kristeller, Iter Italicum. Many of the letters published in Andreas Schumacher, Gelehrter Maenner Briefe an die Koenige von Daenemark, vom Jahre 1522 bis 1663, 3 parts, Copenhagen and Leipzig, 1758-59.

2. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Danish king Frederik III, 18 March 1655, Copenhagen, RigsarkivetCall Number: Tyske Kancelli, Udenrigske Afdeling, Breve fra udenlandske universiteter og lærde mænd 1530-1770, parcel 3-057, F-L [i.e. German Chancery, Foreign Department, Letters from foreign universities and

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learned men 1530-1770, parcel 3-057, letters from persons alphabetized from F to L].

3. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Danish king Christian V, 6 June 1675, Copenhagen, RigsarkivetCall Number: Tyske Kancelli, Udenrigske Afdeling, Breve fra udenlandske universiteter og lærde mænd 1530-1770, parcel 3-057, F-L [i.e. German Chancery, Foreign Department, Letters from foreign universities and learned men 1530-1770, parcel 3-057, letters from persons alphabetized from F to L].

Dijon, Bibliothèque Municipale

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Angles, Bernard d', 2 March 1654, Dijon, Bibliothèque Municipale.Call Number: Bibliothèque Municipale ms. 844Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152

2. ———. Letter to La Mare, Philibert de, 2 March 1654, Dijon, Bibliothèque Municipale.Call Number: Ms. 844Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 154

Dresden, Staatsarchiv, Geheimarchiv, Handschriften1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Prince elector Johann Georg I. Von Sachsen, 19 December 1653

Call Number: 10024 Geheimer Rat (Geheimes Archiv), Loc. 7208/45, 1571ff: page 191

2. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Prince elector Johann Georg II. Von Sachsen, 15 June1663Call Number: 10024 Geheimer Rat (Geheimes Archiv), Loc. 9992/01, 1521ff: page 316

3.Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Johann Georg II. von Sachsen, 1665? Date to be checked, Dresden, Staatsarchiv, Geheimarchiv, Handschriften.Call Number: 10024 Geheimer Rat (Geheimes Archiv), Loc. 08562/01

4. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Johann Georg III. Von Sachsen, date unknown Call Number: 10024 Geheimer Rat (Geheimes Archiv) Loc. 08571/05,

Edinburgh, University Library

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to unknown, 17 September 1673, (1678 letter to corrector of his works in Jansson press? Fletcher, A.K. and the Distribudion of His Books, s. 117), Edinburgh, University Library.Call Number: La II 653/42Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 155.

Florence, Archivio di Stato

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Ferdinando II dei Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 12 June 1658, Florence, Archivio di Stato.Call Number: ASF Med 1026, f.4Notes: autograph, ItalianKircher sent Ferdinando II the Itinerarium Exstaticum (1656) on 15th June, 1656, with the accompanying letter BNCF Ms. Gal. 275, f.43 (a copy is at APUG 561, 58r), printed in Mirto, pp. 153-4.

2. ———. Letter to Ferdinando II dei Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 8 November 1659, Florence, Archivio di Stato.Call Number: Mediceo del Principato, 1026, f.149Notes: autograph, Italian

3. ———. Letter to Ferdinando II dei Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 15 November 1659, Florence, Archivio di Stato.Call Number: ASF, Mediceo del Principato, 1026, f.150Notes: 15th November, 1659, Rome autograph signaturela Cassetta del Artifizio delle lingueletter referred to in the postscript to APUG 556, 63r-64v (18th November, 1659), from Ferdinando

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II to Kircher.

4. ———. Letter to Medici, Giovanni Carlo de', 16 April 1661, Florence, Archivio di Stato.Call Number: ASF Med, 5338, f.1

5. ———. Letter to Ferdinando II dei Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 21 June 1663, Florence, Archivio di Stato.Call Number: ASF, Mediceo del Principato, 1206, f.515Notes: autograph signaturemisplaced in volume as 21st June, 1664.PolygraphiaReply from Ferdinando II is at APUG 555, 69r-70v.see also BNCF Ms. Gal. 276, f.201, sent to Leopoldo de' Medici the same day.

6. ———. Letter to Ferdinando II dei Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 7 July 1666, Florence, Archivio di Stato.Call Number: ASF Med, 1026, f.677Notes: not autographMirto, p157, & n.1, reproduces APUG 555, 125 (renumbered as 115r) which offers the Obelisci aegyptiaci, 1666 to the 'Gran Principe', i.e. Ferdinando II. This is the draft of the current letter, although the wording differs slightly, the sent version being fuller.Another letter sends the same book to the 'Seren.mo Principe' (i.e. Leopoldo?) - BNCF Aut. Palat., IV, 49 (3rd July, 1666), reproduced in Mirto, pp164-5.

7. ———. Letter to Ferdinando II dei Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 10 February 1672, Florence, Archivio di Stato.Call Number: ASF Med, 3940, f.4Notes: is this the right recipient? When does Ferdinando II die??

8. ———. Letter to Cosimo III dei Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 29 November 1675, Florence, Archivio di Stato.Call Number: ASF Med. 1114, f.8

9. ———. Letter to Cosimo III dei Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 20 December 1675, Florence, Archivio di Stato.Call Number: ASF Med 3942 f.1

10. ———. Letter to Cosimo III dei Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 30 October 1678, Florence, Archivio di Stato.Call Number: ASF Med, 1115, f.6

11. ———. Letter to to be checked, to be checked, Florence, Archivio di Stato.Call Number: Archivio Mediceo del PrincipatoNotes: Cited in Kristeller, Iter, V, p. 546a.

Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurentiana

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Redi, Francesco, 27 October 1668, Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurentiana.Call Number: Laur. Redi 224 f. 215Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 155.

2. ———. Letter to Redi, Francesco, 12 December 1671?, Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurentiana.Call Number: Laur. Redi 224 f. 216Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 155. Check date

3. ———. Letter to Redi, Francesco, 29 June 1675?, Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurentiana.Call Number: Laur. Redi 203 f. 289Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 155. Check date

Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale5

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to unknown (Leopoldo de' Medici), March 1641-31 October 1641, Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale.Call Number: BNCF, Aut. Pal. IV, 41-53Notes: Sixteen letters. Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 156.

2. ———. Letter to Medici, Leopoldo de', 29 January 1650, Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale.Call Number: BNCF: Ms. Gal. 275 f.23Notes: Consulted 2/5/1995. Check also Mirto, Alfonso. Le lettere di Athanasius Kircher della Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Firenze. Atti Mem. Accad. Toscana Sci. Lett. Colombaria. 1989; Vol. 54(n. s. 40): pp. 129-165 for this and other letters in Florence

3. ———. Letter to Medici, Leopoldo de', 31 May 1655, Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale.Call Number: BNCF Aut. Pal. II. 70Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 154. Copy in Aut. Pal. IV. 40

4. ———. Letter to Grand Duke of Tuscany, 15 June 1656, Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale.Call Number: BNCF: Ms. Gal. 275 f.43rNotes: Consulted 2/5/1995. Check also Mirto, Alfonso. Le lettere di Athanasius Kircher della Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Firenze. Atti Mem. Accad. Toscana Sci. Lett. Colombaria. 1989; Vol. 54(n. s. 40): pp. 129-165 for this and other letters in Florence

5. ———. Letter to Viviani, Vincenzo, 16 April 1661, Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale.Call Number: BNCF Ms. Gal. 161, f.312

6. ———. Letter to Medici, Leopoldo de', 21 June 1663, Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale.Call Number: BNCF Ms. Gal. 276, f.201Notes: Printed in Mirto, pp.142-3

7. ———. Letter to Medici, Leopoldo de', 3 December 1667, Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale.Call Number: BNCF Ms. Gal. 278 ff.103r-vNotes: Consulted 4/5/1995. See transcription in Kircher file. There is a copy (sketch) of this letter in APUG 564 f. 138r

8. ———. Letter to Landucci, Ambrosio Bishop, undated (c, 1663), Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale.Call Number: BNCF Aut. Pal. IV 49-51Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 154

9. Viviani, Vincenzo. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale.Call Number: BNCF Ms. Gal. 157, f.118Notes: Italian

10. – Letter to Medici, Leopoldo de´, 26 October 1675 Romae Call Number: Aut. Pal. IV Notes: John Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher and the Distribution of His Books, s. 116.

Forlì, Biblioteca Comunale

1.Kircher, Athanasius to unknown, 19 June 1644, Forlì, Biblioteca Comunale.Call Number: BcFo, Racolte Piancastelli, Sez. Aut. Secc. CII-XVIII, Busta 29, ad vocem Kircher Athanasio

2. Kircher, Athanasius to unknown, no date, Forli, Biblioteca Comunale. Call Number: BcFo, Racolte Piancastelli, Sez. Aut. Secc. CII-XVIII, Busta 29, ad vocem Kircher Athanasio

Fulda, Hessische Landesbibliothek

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Wiegand, Melchior, 7 December 1664, Fulda, Hessische Landesbibliothek.Call Number: Ser. B. VIII.8Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 155.

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Geisa (Rhön), Pfarrarchiv

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Witzel, Konrad, January 1664-31 January 1664, Geisa (Rhön), Pfarrarchiv.Call Number: to be checkedNotes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 155.

2. ———. Letter to Witzel, Konrad, 7 May 1665, Geisa (Rhön), Pfarrarchiv.Call Number: to be checkedNotes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 155.

Göttingen, Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 23 June 1670, Göttingen, Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek.Call Number: Cod. Philos. 138 m. VI.56Notes: Published in Leibniz, Philosophischer Briefwechsel herausgeben von der Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR, Erster Band, 1663-1685. Akademie-Verlag Berlin, 1987. pp. 48-49

2. ———. Letter to unknown, 15 June 1675, Göttingen, Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek.Call Number: Cod. Philos. 138 m. II 31Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 156.

Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Supellex Epistolica

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to unknown, 30 May 1672, Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek - Carl von Ossietzky.Call Number: Sup. ep. 4, 47Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 156.

2. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Johannes Monrath , 12. Februarx1675, Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek - Carl von Ossietzky. Call Number: Sup. ep. 26, 234Notes: Nilüfer Krüger (Hg.): Supellex epistolica Uffenbachii et Wolfiorum. Katalog der Uffenbach-Wolfschen Briefsammlung. Erster Teilband. Katalog der Schreiber AA bis J. G. Musculus. (Katalog der Handschriften der Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg, Bd. VIII, Erster Teilband). Hamburg 1978, here page 484.

3. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Kaspar Schott, 9.April 1660 , Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek - Carl von Ossietzky. Call Number: Sup. ep. 13,233Notes: Nilüfer Krüger (Hg.): Supellex epistolica Uffenbachii et Wolfiorum. Katalog der Uffenbach-Wolfschen Briefsammlung. Erster Teilband. Katalog der Schreiber AA bis J. G. Musculus. (Katalog der Handschriften der Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg, Bd. VIII, Erster Teilband). Hamburg 1978, here page 484.

Hannover, Schloss Harburg

1. Kircher, Athanasius. "Magnes.", Hannover, Schloss Harburg.Call Number: II 3, 4o 64Notes: This collection may now be in Augsburg, Universitätsbibliothek.3 letters. From Kristeller, Iter italicum

Harvard University, Houghton Library

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Mersenne, Rome 23 December 1639, Call Number: Fms. Lat. 306. 1 (3) Notes: Findlen 2004, p. 258.

Innsbruck, Universitätsbibliothek

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1. Kircher, Athanasius. "Vita a Semet Ipso Conscripta.", Innsbruck, Universitätsbibliothek.Call Number: ms. 684Notes: Cited in Kristeller, Iter Italicum

Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek

1. Kircher, Athanasius. "Institutiones Mathematicae. De Arithmetica, Computu Ecclesiast:, Geometria, Alijsque Scientijs Mathematicis. Auctore R.P. Athanasio Kircher Societatis IESU. Sacerdote, In Alma Universitate Herbipolensi Professore Matheseos, Ethicae, Ac Sacrae Lingua, Ordinario. Anno Domini 1630."1630. Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek.Call Number: Badische Landesbibliothek, St. Blasien 67Notes: Discussed with illustrations in Dieterle, Reinhard; Fletcher, John; Reiss, Wolfgang Römer , Christel; Römer, Gerhard; Scharlau, Ulf. Universale Bildung im Barock: Der Gelehrte Athanasius Kircher. Ein Ausstellung der Stadt Rastatt in Zusammenarbeit mit der Badischen Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe. Rastatt: Stad Rastatt; 1981 pp. 70-5

Leeuwarden, Rijksarchief in Friesland

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Vegelin van Claerbergen, Ernst Philip, September 1671, Leeuwarden, Rijksarchief in Friesland.Call Number: Archives of "Familie Vegelin van Claerbergen" no. 67Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 155.

Leipzig, Karl-Marx-Universitätsbibliothek

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Monrad, Johan, 12 February 1675, Leipzig, Karl-Marx-Universitätsbibliothek.Call Number: Rep. IV. 47Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 154. Copy in Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Hamburg

Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Sammlungen des Regierenden Fürstem von Liechtenstein

1. Kircher, Athanasius. "Mathematica Curiosa."1645. Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Sammlungen des Regierenden Fürstem von Liechtenstein.Call Number: 2-4-17 (originally 41-4-5)Notes: Cited in Kristeller, Iter Italicum.

London, British Library

1. Kinner, Cyprian. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 20 May 1648, London, British Library.Call Number: BL Sloane ms. 649 ff. 17r-18rNotes: Transcribed by Nick Wilding. Other letters from Kinner to Hartlib and others in same vol. Answer to Kircher - Kinner 7 Nov. 1648 (check dates) publ. in Dülmen. There is another copy of this letter in the Hartlib papers, 1/33/36A

2. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Doni, Giovanni Battista, 19 October 1647, London, British Library.Call Number: BL Egerton ms. 22, fol. 40Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 153. A copy in Biblioteca Marucelliana, Florence, Cat. A, 289-290, c. 352

3. ———. Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 20 January 1677, London, British Library.Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 2rNotes: Italian. BL Add 22,804: numbered by letter rather than folio. Title: Lettere XVII Italiane scritte ad Alessandro Segni ed una di Elio Loreti al sudetto. 4to. 1677 & 1678 on paper.

4. ———. Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 30 January 1677, London, British Library.Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 3rNotes: Italian

5. ———. Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 6 February 1677, London, British Library.Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 4r

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6. ———. Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 13 February 1677, London, British Library.Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 5rNotes: Italian


8. ———. Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 27 March 1677, London, British Library.Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 7rNotes: Italian

9. ———. Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 1 May 1677, London, British Library.Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 9rNotes: Italian

10. ———. Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 20 June 1677, London, British Library.Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 10rNotes: Italian


12. ———. Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 17 July 1677, London, British Library.Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 12rNotes: Italian

13. ———. Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 21 August 1677, London, British Library.Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 13rNotes: Italian

14. ———. Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 14 September 1677, London, British Library.Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 14rNotes: Italian, poor hand.


16. ———. Letter to Segni, Alessandro, undated, London, British Library.Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 17rNotes: Italian

17. ———. Letter to Segni, Alessandro, undated (late December 1677?), London, British Library.Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 15rNotes: Italian, poor hand.

18. Kircher, Athanasius, and Elio Loreto. Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 17 April 1678, London, British Library.Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 18rNotes: Italian

Lucca, Archivio di Stato

1. – Letter to G.B. Orsucci, 14 May 1666, Call Number: ASLu: n. 47, let. n. 164, c.417.

2. - See Kirchers letter “dopo poco piu di un messe” Call Number: ASLu., G.B. Orsucci, n. 47, let. n. 169, c. 432

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Notes: Busti in Lo Sardo 2001, p. 350

3. - ASLu:G.B. Orsucci, n.47, lt. n. 280, c. 742 Notes: Findlen 2004, p. 98.

4. - Letter to G.B. Orsucci, 15 December 1668, Call Number: ASLu n. 47, let. n. 269, c. 683. Notes: Busti in Lo Sardo 2001, p. 350. .

Montecassino, Biblioteca della Badia

1. Kircher, Athanasius. "Arithmologia, Sive De Numeris.", Montecassino, Biblioteca della Badia.Call Number: cod. 855Notes: Cited in Kristeller, Iter italicum

Montpellier, Ecole de Médicine

1. Dal Pozzo, Cassiano. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 28 November 1647, Montpellier, Ecole de Médicine.Call Number: H270 f. 295rvNotes: Cit. Anna Nicolo, Il Carteggio di Cassiano dal Pozzo: Catalogo, Florence: Olschki, 1991, p. 8

2. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Dal Pozzo, Cassiano, 15 August 1637, Montpellier, Ecole de Médicine.Call Number: H268 f. 9rvNotes: Cit. Anna Nicolo, Il Carteggio di Cassiano dal Pozzo: Catalogo, Florence: Olschki, 1991, p. 3

3. ———. Letter to Dal Pozzo, Cassiano, 18 September 1647, Montpellier, Ecole de Médicine.Call Number: H270 fol. 291Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 153. Cit. Anna Nicolo, Il Carteggio di Cassiano dal Pozzo: Catalogo, Florence: Olschki, 1991, p. 8

4. ———. Letter to Dal Pozzo, Cassiano, 27 November 1647, Montpellier, Ecole de Médicine.Call Number: H270 ff. 292r-293vNotes: Cit. Anna Nicolo, Il Carteggio di Cassiano dal Pozzo: Catalogo, Florence: Olschki, 1991, p. 8

Munich, Bayerische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Gronovius, Johann Friedrich, 2 November 1652, Munich, Bayerische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek.Call Number: Ms. 617, fol. 100r-100vNotes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 153

2. ———. Letter to Almichoven, Theodor, 2 September 1678, Munich, Bayerische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek.Call Number: Collectio Camerariana Cod. lat. 10383/134Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Beziehungen, p. 152

3. ———. "Vita a Semet Ipso Conscripta.", Munich, Bayerische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek.Call Number: Cod. Lat. 8295 folio numbers to be checkedNotes: Cited in Fletcher, AK und ..., who states that this is a seventeenth century copy

Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale

1. Kircher, Athanasius. "Andreae Cirkner (i.e. Athanasii Kircher) Vetus Aegyptiorum Theologia Ex Obeliscis, Pyramidibus Saxis Et Columnis Aegyptiorum.", Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale.Call Number: V G 49Notes: Cited in Kristeller, Iter italicum

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Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to unknown, 31 December 1678, Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum.Call Number: Kircher, A. 1678Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 155.

Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale

1. Charpentier, François. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 15 October 1648, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN NAF 6262, f.30rv

2. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Ferrand, Jean, 4 June 1633, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN FF 9362 f.16rvNotes: Note: Copy, Latin. See Fletcher 'Kircher & Peiresc'

3. ———. Letter to Gassendi, Pierre, 10 July 1633, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN NAL 1637 ff. 73r-74v.Notes: Published in Gassendi, Petri Gassendi Diniensis, Ecclesiae Praepositi, et in Academia Parisiensi Matheseos, Regii Professoris EPISTOLAE, Lugduni: Sumptibus Laurentii Anisson, 1658. Tom. 6, pp. 413-4

4. ———. Letter to Pereisc, Nicholas Claude Fabri de, 9 August 1633, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN FF 9538 f. 227r-228v (6. September 1633? Findlen 2004, p. 146)Notes: Consulted BN 22/6/1995 (microfilm)

5. ———. Letter to Peiresc, Nicholas Claude Fabri de, 14 November 1633, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN FF 9538 ff. 230r-232v Notes: Autograph, Latin, damaged, sometimes illegible.

6. ———. Letter to Gassendi, Pierre, 23 September 1634, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN NAL 1637 ff. 57r - 58vNotes: Published in Gassendi, Petri Gassendi Diniensis, Ecclesiae Praepositi, et in Academia Parisiensi Matheseos, Regii Professoris EPISTOLAE, Lugduni: Sumptibus Laurentii Anisson, 1658. Tom. 6, pp. 426-7.

7. ———. Letter to Peiresc, Nicholas Claude Fabri de, 8 February 1635, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN FF 9362 ff. 13-16Notes: Copy of BN NAF 5173 ff. 25r-27v

8. ———. Letter to Peiresc, Nicholas Claude Fabri de, 8 February 1635, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN NAF 5173 ff. 25r-27v. Notes: Autograph, Latin. Copy at BN FF 9362, ff.13r-16r

9. ———. Letter to Peiresc, Nicholas Claude Fabri de, 3 December 1636, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN FF 9538 f. 236r-238v Notes: Autograph, Latin & Arabic.

10. ———. Letter to Peiresc, Nicholas Claude Fabri de, 22 December 1636, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN FF 9538 f.239rv Notes: Latin, Autograph

11. ———. Letter to Peiresc, Nicholas Claude Fabri de, 7 January 1637, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN FF 9538 f.240rvNotes: Latin, Autograph

12. ———. Letter to Gassendi, Pierre, 2 July 1639, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN NAL 1637, ff. 109r-110vNotes: Published in Gassendi, Petri Gassendi Diniensis, Ecclesiae Praepositi, et in Academia Parisiensi Matheseos, Regii Professoris EPISTOLAE, Lugduni: Sumptibus Laurentii Anisson, 1658. Tom. 6, pp. 436-7.

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13. ———. Letter to Gassendi, Pierre, 13 February 1642, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN NAL 1637 ff. 36r-37v Notes: Published in Gassendi, Petri Gassendi Diniensis, Ecclesiae Praepositi, et in Academia Parisiensi Matheseos, Regii Professoris EPISTOLAE, Lugduni: Sumptibus Laurentii Anisson, 1658. Tom. 6, p. 446

14. ———. Letter to Mersenne, Marin, 10 March 1648, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN NAF 6204, f. 105Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 154

15. ———. Letter to Hevelius, Johann, 20 June 1649, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN NAL 1635 f.109Notes: Autograph, Latin

16. ———. Letter to Billy, Jacques de, 21 February 1660, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN Lat. 8600, f.29r 30v. Notes: Autograph, Latin.

17. ———. Letter to Hevelius, Johann, 8 May 1665, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN NAL 1640 f. 59rvNotes: Latin, Autograph . Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 154

18. ———. Letter to to be checked, to be checked, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN NAF 20952 f. 167Notes: Cited in Kristeller, Iter italicum

19. ———. Letter to unknown, undated, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN NAL 1520, f.47r. Notes: Autograph, Latin, damaged.

20. ———. "Prodromus Copto-Aegyptiacus.", Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN Dupuy 663, f.95r-106r

21. ———. "Scripturae in Monte Sinai Incisae Interpretatio Nova.", Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN Dupuy 488, (448? Stolzenberg s. 365) ff. 161r-163vNotes: Autograph. Cited in Kristeller, Iter Italicum. Followed by a letter from Peiresc.

22. ———. "Vita a Semet Ipso Conscripta.", Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN NAL 216 Notes: According to Fletcher this is a seventeenth century copy.

23. ———. "Vita a Semet Ipso Conscripta.", Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN FL 24776Notes: According to Fletcher this is an eigthteenth century copy.

24. Kircher, Athanasius, and Christoph Scheiner. Letter to Peiresc, Nicholas Claude Fabri de, 1 December 1633, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN FF 9538 f.234r-vNotes: Consulted 23/6/1995. Microfilm (illegible): 5016

25. Scheiner, Christoph. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 16 July 1633, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN FF 9538 car. 227tNotes: See excerpt in Galileo "Opere" XV p.184

Paris, Observatoire

1. Coninck, Juan Ramón de. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 20 July 1653, Paris, Observatoire.Call Number: Obs., C.1.3, f.431rNotes: Copy, excerpt. Original letter in APUG 567 135r-136v.

2. Hevelius, Johan. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 12 March 1650, Paris, Observatoire.12

Call Number: Obs, C.1.2, f.161rvNotes: Latin, Autograph. Copy of APUG 557 342r343v?

3. ———. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 7 October 1652, Paris, Observatoire.Call Number: Obs., C.1.2, f.318r319r. Notes: Latin, Autograph. Copy of Apug 568, 120r.121v?

4. ———. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, April 1654, Paris, Observatoire.Call Number: Obs., C.1.3, f.422r-423r. Notes: no corresponding copy in APUG.

5. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Hevelius, Johann, 17 February 1652, Paris, Observatoire.Call Number: Obs., C.1.2, f.316rvNotes: Autograph, waterdamaged.

Parma, Biblioteca Palatini

1. Kircher, Athanasius. "Rituale Ecclesiae Aegyptiacae Sive Cophitarum.", Parma, Biblioteca Palatini.Call Number: to be checkedNotes: Latin. Cited in Fletcher, AK und..., p. 181.

Prague, National Library at the Clementinum

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Moretus, Theodorus, 12 March 1639, Prague, National Library at the Clementinum.Call Number: VI B 12b f. 73rvNotes: Consulted 10 August 2000

2. ———. Letter to Moretus, Theodorus, 1 February 1642, Prague, National Library at the Clementinum.Call Number: VI B 12b f. 144rvNotes: Consulted 10 August 2000


Prague, Strahov monastery

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Jesuit, unidentified, 3 December 1672, Prague, Strahov monastery.Call Number: Miscellaneorum Iesuiticorum liber, DH I 22/dd, p. 323-324Notes: Latin-Italian

2. ——— Miscellanea astrologica et medicinalia, this part of manuscript is called Notata from year 1688. On f. 40v is note "ut misit Romam P[atri] [Athanasio] Kirchero S. J." , which doesn´t mean that it is direct correspondence, Author is unknown, Prague, Strahov monastery.Call Number: Miscellanea astrologica et medicinalia, signatura DF IV 36/c, na ff. 28r-47vNotes:

Prague, Universitní Knihovna, Prague. :

1. Kircher, Athanasius. "Vita a Semet Ipso Conscripta.", Prague, Universitní Knihovna, Prague. .Call Number: UK MS. XIV C 12Notes: Cit.: Evans 79 p.435 n.42. A seventeenth century copy, according to Fletcher, p. 181.

Rome, Archivum Pontificiae Universitatis Gregorianae

1. Kircher, Athanasius. "Lexicon Copticum Latinum Arabicum.", Rome, Archivum Pontificiae Universitatis Gregorianae.Call Number: APUG 765Notes: Autograph (?). Cited in Kristeller, Iter italicum.

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2. ———. "Obelisci Aegyptiaci Sive Solaris Barachiae Abennephi Interpretatio Arabica.", Rome, Archivum Pontificiae Universitatis Gregorianae.Call Number: APUG 830 (folio numers to be checked)Notes: Cited in Fletcher, AK und ...., p. 180.

3. ———. "Obelisci Heliaci in Hortis Magni Ducis Hetruriae Siti Interpretatio.", Rome, Archivum Pontificiae Universitatis Gregorianae.Call Number: APUG 830 (folio numers to be checked)Notes: Cited in Fletcher, AK und ...., p. 180.

4. ———. "Obelisci Heliaci Seu Osir: Iuxta Credem S. Machuti Interpretatio."1633. Rome, Archivum Pontificiae Universitatis Gregorianae.Call Number: APUG 830 (folio numers to be checked)Notes: Cited in Fletcher, AK und ...., p. 180, who states that it was composed in Rome in 1633.

5. ———. "Protheoriae Seu Apparatus Ad Hieroglyphiarum Explicationem.", Rome, Archivum Pontificiae Universitatis Gregorianae.Call Number: APUG 812Notes: Autograph (?). Cited in Kristeller, Iter italicum.

6. Kircher, Athanasius S. J. "Commentariolus De Vita Et Rebus Gestis P. Athanasii Kircheri e S.J., Ab Ipsomet Compositus….", Rome, Archivum Pontificiae Universitatis Gregorianae.Call Number: APUG 830Notes: Consulted 3/10/1994. See also Kircher "Vita" in primary bibliog. According to Fletcher this is "a seventeenth century copy amended in Kircher's hand".

7. Censures written by Kircher, Call Number: APUG 558, fols. 80r-81v, APUG 561, flos. 103r-v, 101r-v, APUG 563 fols. 102r-v. Notes: Findlen 2004, p. 97.

Rome, Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Oliva, Giovanni Paolo, 5 May 1672, Rome, Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu.Call Number: ARSI Rom. 38 ff. 172-189? [Wrong]Notes: Published in R. Garrucci "Origini"

2. ———. "Approbatio Et Censura Chronologiae Sinico-Europaeae a Philippo Couplet Composita."1672. Rome, Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu.Call Number: ARSI: Jap. Sin. IV, 6, ff.92-96vNotes: Cit. in Lamalle schedario

3. “Indiam petens” (12.1.1629 Plea for mission) Call Number: Rhen. Sup. 42, F. 20r-21v. Notes: Siebert 2006, s. 60.

4. The copy of censorship of the third tome of Oedipus Aegyptiacus with Kirchers annotations Call Number: ARSI FG 668, fols. 401r-v Notes: Findlen 2004, p. 97

5. Kircher´s anonymous censure of Riccioli, Call Number: ARSI FG 662, fol. 477r. Notes: Published in Gambaro 1989, s. 40 – Findlen 2004, p. 258.

Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana

1. Alexander VII, Pope Fabio Chigi. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 14 February 1648, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Chigi a. I 45, ff. 164r-165vNotes: Cit. in Cygan "Valerianus Magni Vita Prima.." p.266. Worth consulting

2. ———. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 29 May 1648, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Chigi a. I. 45, f. 187vNotes: Draft. Consulted 16/5/1995

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3. ———. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 24 February 1651, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Chigi A. I. 8, f. 163rNotes: Minutes. Original in APUG 556 ff. 43r-44v

4. ———. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 1 April 1651, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Chigi A. I. 8, f. 172rvNotes: Minutes. Original in APUG 556 ff. 37r-38v

5. ———. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 24 June 1651, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Chigi A. I. 8, f. 193rvNotes: Minutes. Original in APUG 556 f. 47rv

6. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Gaudentius, Paganinus, 6 March 1642, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Urb. Lat. 1629 ff. 416r-417vNotes: Autograph. Latin.

7. ———. Letter to Gaudentius, Paganinus, 18 January 1647, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Urb. Lat. 1629 ff. 370r-371vNotes: Autograph, Latin. Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 153

8. ———. Letter to Gaudentius, Paganinus, 17 March 1647, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Urb. Lat. 1629 ff. 390r-391vNotes: Autograph, Latin. Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 153

9. ———. Letter to Gaudentius, Paganinus, 4 May 1647, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Urb. Lat. 1629 ff. 457r-458vNotes: Autograph. Latin.

10. ———. Letter to Gaudentius, Paganinus, 9 June 1647, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Urb. Lat. 1629 ff. 465rvNotes: Autograph. Latin.

11. ———. Letter to Gaudentius, Paganinus, 24 August 1647, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Urb. Lat. 1629 ff. 480r-481vNotes: Autograph. Latin.

12. ———. Letter to Gaudentius, Paganinus, 11 October 1647, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Urb. Lat. 1629 ff. 514rvNotes: Autograph. Latin.

13. ———. Letter to Gaudentius, Paganinus, 22 February 1648, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Urb. Lat. 1629 ff. 573rNotes: Autograph. Latin.

14. ———. Letter to Barberini, Francesco, 6 March 1653, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Barb. Lat. 6467 f. 37r-vNotes: Autograph, Italian. Consulted.

15. ———. Letter to Holstenius, Lucas, 24 November 1654, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Barb. Lat. 6499, f. 119rNotes: consulted. Autograph

16. ———. Letter to Holstenius, Lucas, 15 October 1655, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Barb. Lat. 6499, f. 120rNotes: cited in Findlen, "Scientific spectacle ..."

17. ———. Letter to Albano, Monsignore, 9 February 1660, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Vat. Lat. 9064 f. 93r-94rNotes: Copy, Italian, Latin, Greek. Consulted 22.6.1999

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18. ———. Letter to Maffei, Raffaello, 26 November 1661, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Autografi Ferrajoli. Raccolta prima, VI, f. 187rv

19. ———. Letter to Maffei, Raffaello, 24 February 1662, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Autografi Ferrajoli. Raccolta prima, VI, f. 185r-186vNotes: Cit. Findlen, Scientific spectacle ...Italian, Autograph. Consulted 22.6.1999

20. ———. Letter to Maffei, Raffaello, 12 April 1662, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Autografi Ferrajoli. Raccolta prima, VI, f. 182r-183vNotes: Italian, Autograph. Cit. Findlen, Scientific spectacle .... Consulted 22.6.1999

21. ———. Letter to Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi), 14 July 1662, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Chigi F IV 48 ff. 1r-11vNotes: Latin, Greek, Arabic. Scribal hand. Introduction to "De Compositione Astrolabii (Herimanni)". Copy in BAV Chigi I. VI. 225, ff. 48r-58v

22. ———. Letter to Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi), 14 July 1662, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Chigi I. VI. 225, ff. 48r-58vNotes: Latin, Greek, Arabic. Scribal hand. Introduction to "De Compositione Astrolabii (Herimanni)". Copy of BAV Chigi F IV 48 ff. 1r-11v

23. ———. Letter to Alexander VII, Pope Fabio Chigi, 29 August 1663, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Chigi I. VI. 225 ff. 1r-9vNotes: Latin, Autograph signature. Consulted 24.6.1999. Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Beziehungen, p. 152

24. ———. Letter to Maffei, Raffaello, 27 July 1664, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Autografi Ferrajoli. Raccolta prima, VI, f. 184rNotes: Italian, Autograph. Consulted 22.6.1999

25. ———. Letter to Favoriti, Agostino, 22 June 1665, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Vat. lat. 8202, f. 48rNotes: Italian, autograph signature. Consulted 24 June 1999. Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 153.

26. ———. Letter to Alexander VII, Pope Fabio Chigi, 28 January 1666, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Chigi, C.V. 134, inside front cover.Notes: Cited in Bartòla, Alberto. Alessandro VII e Athanasius Kircher S.I. Ricerche e appunti sulla loro corrispondenza erudita e sulla storia di alcuni codici chigiani. Miscellanea Bibliothecae Apostolicae Vaticanae. 1989; III: 7-105. Consulted. Autograph minutes in APUG 563, f. 303.

27. ———. Letter to unknown, 9 May 1666, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Vat. Lat. 9064 f. 83rNotes: Autograph, Italian. Consulted 22.6.1999

28. ———. Letter to Alexander VII, Pope Fabio Chigi, 27 October 1666, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Chigi I.VI.225 ff. 66r-67vNotes: Autograph, Latin. Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Beziehungen, p. 152

29. ———. Letter to Barberini, Francesco, 21 November 1666, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Barb. Lat. 6467 f. 38r-vNotes: Autograph, Italian.

30. ———. Letter to Chigi, Flavio, 13 December 1666, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Chigi R. V. g f.460r-vNotes: Autograph, Italian. Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 156. Findlen suggests Flavio Chigi as recipient.

31. ———. Letter to Barberini, Francesco, 14 December 1667, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.16

Call Number: BAV Barb. Lat. 6467 f. 39r-vNotes: Autograph, Italian. Consulted

32. ———. Letter to Suáres, Joseph Marie, 6 December 1673, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Vat. Lat. 9064 f. 87rNotes: Autograph, Latin. Consulted 22.6.1999

33. ———. Letter to Nicaise, Claude, 14 March 1676, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Autografi Ferrajoli. Raccolta prima, VI, f. 188rvNotes: Latin, autograph. Ref. from Paolo Vian, ed., La "Raccolta Prima" degli Autografi Ferrajoli, Introduzione, inventario e indice, Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1990. Consulted 22.6.1999

34. ———. Letter to Suáres, Joseph Marie, undated, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Vat. Lat. 9064 f. 88r-92r.Notes: Last lines and signature of letter autograph. Latin, Greek, Turkish, Hebrew. Consulted 22.6.1999

35. ———. "De Origine Eorum Numerorum, Quos Zyphras Vulgo Vocant, Quibus Hoc Tempore in Computu Rerum Omnes Uti Solent.", Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Chigi I.VI.225 ff. 78r-80vNotes: Latin. Edge of pages is damaged.

36. ———. "De Sepulchro Veterum Furiorum in Monte Tusculano Non Ita Pridem Detecto. Diatribe Ad ALEXANDRUM VII. P.M.", Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Chigi I.VI.225 ff. 68r-77vNotes: Latin. Cf. Kircher to Alexander VII, Tusculi, 27 October 1666.

37. ———. "Diatribe Arithmetica De Priscis Numerorum Notis Earumque Origine Et Fabrica.", Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Chigi F.IV.64Notes: 41ff.

38. ———. "Explicatio Horoscopij Vaticani.", Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Chigi H.II.22 ff. 251r-252rNotes: See A. Bartòla, Alessandro VII e Athanasius Kircher.

39. ———. "Expositio Numi Aenei Aegyptiaci.", Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Vat. Lat. 9064 f. 86rvNotes: Autograph, Latin and Greek. Consulted 22.6.1999

40. ———. "Galfridus De Vino Salvo Poetria Nova Illustrata e Corretta Dal Padre Atanasio Chircher.", Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Chigi I.VI.229 ff. 51-84Notes: Italian, cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 180.

41. ———. "Horologium Achax Sive Antiquum, Aut Planetarium. Quo Veteres Hebraei, Nec Non Romani Una Cum Astrologis, Et Ecclesiae in Officio Canonico Ad Primam Tertiam Nonam Recitando Utebantur in Hunc Usque Diem in Quo Singuli Totius Anni Dies, Noctesque in 12 Horas Distribuntur.", Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Chigi H.II.22 ff. 249v-250vNotes: See A. Bartòla, Alessandro VII e Athanasius Kircher.

42. ———. "In Horoscopium Alexandrinum Quod ALEXANDRI VII PONT.MAX. Cura Et Studio in Campo Vaticano, Indice Obelisco, Constructum Est EPIGRAMMA.", Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Chigi H.II.22 f. 253rvNotes: The volume contains details of expenses, plans, architects and sculptors involved in the building of St. Peter's. See A. Bartòla, Alessandro VII e Athanasius Kircher.

43. ———. "Iudicium De Antiquo MMScto De Sphaera.", Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.17

Call Number: BAV Chigi E. IV. 130 ff. 1r-8vNotes: For Alexander VII. Cited in Fletcher, AK und .. , p. 180. A copy is at Chigi J. VI. 225 42r- 47v

44. ———. "Iudicium De Antiquo MMScto De Sphaera Ad Alex. VII Pont. Opt. Max."undated. Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Chigi I. VI. 225 42r- 47vNotes: For Alexander VII. Cited in Fletcher, AK und .. , p. 180. A copy of BAV Chigi E. IV. 130

45. ———. "Iudicium De Authore Eiusque Libello, Qui Inscribitur, De Poetica Arte ... Ad Beat.m Patrem Alexand VII Pont. O.M.", Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Chigi I.VI.229 ff. 85r-88vNotes: Latin

46. ———. "Iudicium De Praesenti Codice Ms.", Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Chigi C.IV. 96, ff. 4-6Notes: Cited in Bartòla, Alessandro VII e Athanasius Kircher, p. 47.

47. ———. "Novum Hoc Inventum Quo Omnia Mundi Idiomata Ad Unum Re-Ducuntur.", Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Chigi I. VI. 225 ff.11r-37vNotes: See transcription in Kircher file

48. ———. "Patris Kirkeri Allegatio De Alessia Civitate.", Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Barb. Lat. 2617 ff. 40r-41vNotes: copy, not in Kircher's hand. See also Biblioteca Vallicelliana, Carte Allacci, XCVII (papers and transl. of Lucas Holstenius) no. 19, "Athanasius Kircher, allegatio de Allesia civitate"

49. ———. "Scarabaeus Hieroglyphicus Expositus a P. Ath. Kircher.", Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Chigi I.VI.225 ff. 99r-107vNotes: Latin. Cited in A. Bartòla, Alessandro VII e Athanasius Kircher S.J., on p. 30.

50. ———. "Scripturae Mirabilis Et Toto Oriente Celebratissimae in Monte Sinai Rupi Cuidam Inciae ... Interpretatio ... Ad Eminentissimum Principem S.R.E. Franciscum Cardinalem Barberinum."1636. Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Vat. Lat. 10486 ff. 67r-68v Notes: Autograph. Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 181

51. ———. "Supplementum Numismatis Cabalistici Et Est De Artificiosa Numerorum Intra Quadratum Dispositione Instituenda Ad Unam in Singulis Seriebus Summam Obtinendam.", Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Chigi I. VI. 225 ff.38r-41vNotes: Latin

52. Kircher, Athanasius, and unidentified hand. Letter to Suáres, Joseph Marie, 1672, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Vat. Lat. 9064 f. 84r-85vNotes: Autograph, Latin. Consulted 22.6.1999

53. Kirchers marginalia preceding fol. 319r. in Cordovero´s “Pardes rimmonim”, Call Number: BAV MS. Neofiti 28 Notes: Findlen 2004, p. 166

Rome, Biblioteca Lancisiana

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Severino, Marco Aurelio, 17 November 1649, Rome, Biblioteca Lancisiana.Call Number: 13 (LXXIV-1-13), f. 339Notes: Autograph, Latin and Greek. From Kristeller. See also Pietro de Angelis, Giovanni Maria Lancisi. La Biblioteca Lancisiana, L'Accademia Lancisiana, Rome, 1965, p. 151

2. ———. Letter to Severino, Marco Aurelio, 24 November 1652, Rome, Biblioteca Lancisiana.18

Call Number: 11 (LXXIV-1-11) f. 47rNotes: Autograph, Italian. From Kristeller. See also Pietro de Angelis, Giovanni Maria Lancisi. La Biblioteca Lancisiana, L'Accademia Lancisiana, Rome, 1965, p. 151. Consulted 28 June 1999.

3. ———. Letter to Severino, Marco Aurelio, 6 June 1654, Rome, Biblioteca Lancisiana.Call Number: 11 (LXXIV-1-11) f. 48rNotes: Autograph, Italian. From Kristeller. See also Pietro de Angelis, Giovanni Maria Lancisi. La Biblioteca Lancisiana, L'Accademia Lancisiana, Rome, 1965, p. 151. Consulted 28 June 1999.

4. Severino, Marco Aurelio. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 1 October 1649, Rome, Biblioteca Lancisiana.Call Number: 66 (LXXIV-3-12) f. 240rvNotes: Minutes. From Kristeller. See also Pietro de Angelis, Giovanni Maria Lancisi. La Biblioteca Lancisiana, L'Accademia Lancisiana, Rome, 1965, p. 153 and V. Ducceschi, "L'Epistolario di Marco Aurelio Severino (1580-1656)", Rivista di storia delle scienze mediche e naturali III, 14, 1923, pp. 213-223.

5. ———. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 12 December 1652, Rome, Biblioteca Lancisiana.Call Number: 66 (LXXIV-3-12) f. 241r-242rNotes: Minutes. From Kristeller. See also Pietro de Angelis, Giovanni Maria Lancisi. La Biblioteca Lancisiana, L'Accademia Lancisiana, Rome, 1965, p. 153 and V. Ducceschi, "L'Epistolario di Marco Aurelio Severino (1580-1656)", Rivista di storia delle scienze mediche e naturali III, 14, 1923, pp. 213-223.

Rome, Biblioteca Nazionale di Roma "Vittorio Emmanuele II"

1. Kircher, Athanasius. "Mathematica Curiosa, in Quatuor Partes Divisa. In Arithmeticam, in Geometricam, in Musicam Et Astronomiam.", Rome, Biblioteca Nazionale di Roma "Vittorio Emmanuele II".Call Number: BNR Fondi minori, S. Francesco di Paola 4(184)Notes: 187 pp. Cited in Fletcher, AK und ..., and Kristeller, Iter italicum.

2. ———. "Mundi Subterranei Liber XII.", Rome, Biblioteca Nazionale di Roma "Vittorio Emmanuele II".Call Number: Fondo Gesuitico 546 (2675)Notes: Autograph. Cited in Kristeller, Iter italicum

3. ———. "Mundus Subterraneus.", Rome, Biblioteca Nazionale di Roma "Vittorio Emmanuele II".Call Number: Fondo Gesuitico 562 (2691)Notes: Cited in Kristeller, Iter italicum. May be a late copy

4. [Kircher, Athanasius. "Nova Et Universalis Methodus Kircheriana Totius Geometriae Practicae Combinatae.", Rome, Biblioteca Nazionale di Roma "Vittorio Emmanuele II".Call Number: Fondo Gesuitico 561 (2690)Notes: Cited in Kristeller, Iter italicum.

5. Kircher, Athanasius. "Oedipus Aegyptiacus.", Rome, Biblioteca Nazionale di Roma "Vittorio Emmanuele II".Call Number: Fondo Gesuitico 1235 (3364)Notes: Cited in Kristeller, Iter italicum.

6. ———. "Rituale Ecclesiae Aegyptiacae Quo Caeremoniae Ordinationis Ad Sacerdotium Et Benedictionis Sacrarum Rerum Exhibentur Partim Ex Lingua Aegyptiaca Partim Ex Arabica in Linguam Latinam Translatum.", Rome, Biblioteca Nazionale di Roma "Vittorio Emmanuele II".Call Number: BNR S. Andrea della Valle 30 (1661)Notes: Latin, 35 pp. Cited in Fletcher, AK und..., p. 181. Also cited in Kristeller, Iter italicum, who locates the ms. in the Fondo Gesuitico 30 (1661)

Rome, Biblioteca Vallicelliana

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Allacci, Leone, 27 November 1654, Rome, Biblioteca Vallicelliana.Call Number: Carte Allacci CXLVII ff. 303r-304vNotes: From Kristeller, Iter italicum, VI, p. 189a. Consulted 24.6.1999

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Sheffield, Hartlib Papers

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Kinner, Cyprian, 20 February 1648, Sheffield, Hartlib Papers.Call Number: Hartlib Papers 1/33/31BNotes: From Hartlib Papers CD ROM

Siena, Biblioteca Comunale

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Raffaello Maffei, Volterra, 28 April1662, Siena, Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati.Call Number: BCI, (K XI 53) Autografi Porri, busta 5, no. 86

St. Petersburg, Publicnaja biblioteka im. M. E. Saltykova-Scedrina

1. Kircher, Athanasius. "Misc. Athanasius Kircher, Planispherium, Obelisci Pamphili Interpretatio.", St. Petersburg, Publicnaja biblioteka im. M. E. Saltykova-Scedrina.Call Number: XVII. Polygraphia: Lat. Q XVII 13

Stockholm, Statens Arkiv

1. Kircher, Athanasius, Letter to Prince Carl Gustav of Sweden, 28 February 1650Call Number: Stegeborgssamlingen, box E 146Notes: This letter, though, has survived in a collection of documents from the Stegeborg Castle. It has

accompanied a dedicated copy of Musurgia Universalis, a gift from Kircher to the prince. (http://www.phonurgia.se/rendel/engint.html)

Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek

1. Kircher, Athanasius. "Linguarum Omnium Nova Arte Ad Unam Reductio.", Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek.Call Number: ÖNB, MS. 9536Notes: Cited in Evans "The Habsburg Monarchy" p. 353 note 18. Also mentioned in Fletcher (ed.) "Athanasius Kircher und seine Beziehungen... "p. 180Fletcher claims, in "Kircher and Duke August of Wolfenbüttel" p. 286, that this was the copy sent by Kircher to Leopold I.

2. ———. "Nova Steganographia."1650. Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek.Call Number: ÖNB, MS 9545Notes: Cit. Evans "The Habsburg Monarchy" p. 352 note 18

3. ———. "Nova Steganographia."1650. Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek.Call Number: ÖNB, MS 11388Notes: Cit. Evans "The Habsburg Monarchy" p. 353 note 18

4. ———. "Vita a Semet Ipso Conscripta.", Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek.Call Number: Cod. 13.752Notes: Cited in Fletcher, AK und ...

Washington D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Dibner Library

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to to be checked, 1640, Washington D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Dibner Library.Call Number: ms. 783 A.Notes: Latin, from Kristeller, Iter Italicum. See Manuscripts of the Dibner collection in the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Washington D.C., 1985, p. 5, no. 60

Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Kinner, Cyprian, 7 November 1648, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek.Call Number: HAB Cod. Guelf. 10.5. Aug. 2o, ff. 207r-208r

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Notes: Published in Richard van Dülmen, Ein unbekannter Brief von Athanasius Kircher. Studia Leibnitiana. 1972; 4: pp. 141-145. Copy.

2. ———. Letter to Friedrich III, duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf, 18 January 1650, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek .Call Number: HAB Cod. Guelf. 12 Gud. lat., f. 223Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 153

3. ———. Letter to Friedrich III, duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf, 13 November 1652, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek .Call Number: HAB Cod. Guelf. 12 Gud. lat., f. 226Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 153

4. ———. Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 3 June 1660, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek.Call Number: HAB BA n. 356Notes: Cit. in Fletcher (ed.) "Athanasius Kircher und seine..." p. 107. Published in Burkhard II, 131-133

5. ———. Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 2 October 1660, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek .Call Number: HAB Cod. Guelf. 3. 5 Aug. 4o fol. 29Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152

6. ———. Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 17 October 1660, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek.Call Number: HAB Ms. Cod. Guelf. 3. 5. Aug. 4o f. 30r-vNotes: Consulted 12.6.1997. In German.

7. ———. Letter to Ferdinand Albrecht, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 20 June 1663, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek .Call Number: HAB Fb 4o 52Notes: Inside Ferdinand Albrecht's copy of the Polygraphia. From Fletcher, AK und..., p. 153

8. ———. Letter to Ferdinand Albrecht, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 7 March 1664, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek .Call Number: HAB Fb 4o 52Notes: Inside front of Ferdinand Albrecht's copy of the Polygraphia

9. ———. Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 19 March 1666, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek .Call Number: HAB 6 Nov. 2o ff. 59-61Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 291. Extract also in HAB Cod. Guelf. 3.I. 300 Aug. 2o

10. ———. Letter to Conring, Herman, to be checked, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek .Call Number: HAB Extrav. 54 (fol. nos. to be checked)Notes: Kristeller, Iter italicum, VI; p. 547

11. ———. "Linguarum Omnium Nova Arte Ad Unam Reductio.", Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek .Call Number: HAB Fb 4o 52Notes: Cited in Fletcher (ed.) Athanasius Kircher und seine Beziehungen... p. 180

12. ———. "Novum Inventum Linguarum Omnium Ad Unam Reducturam."1659. Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek .Call Number: HAB Ms. Cod. Guelf. 3. 5. Aug. 4o

Notes: Cit. in Leinkauf "Mundus combinatus" p.236. According to Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August" p. 286, this was Duke August's copy, and was sent to him on 17 October 1660.

Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv

1. August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 5 January 1651, Wolfenbüttel, 21

Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 352Notes: Copy. Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 284

2. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Kinner, Cyprian, 7 November 1648, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 350.1Notes: .Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 154.

3. ———. Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 18.January 1650, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 351Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..." p. 284

4. ———. Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 4 March 1651, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 353Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 285

5. ———. Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 28 July 1651, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 354Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 285

6. ———. Letter to Hirt, Johann Martin, 7 March 1659, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 375Notes: Copy. Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 285

7. ———. Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 16 July 1659, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 376Notes: Copy. Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 285

8. ———. Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 3 January 1660, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 355Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 286

9. ———. Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 22 July 1662, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 383Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 287

10. ———. Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 2 September 1662, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 384Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 287

11. ———. Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 15 February 1663, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 385Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 287

12. ———. Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 20 June 1663, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 358Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 288

13. ———. Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 17 May 1664, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.

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Call Number: HAB BA n. 393Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 288

14. ———. Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 20 June 1664, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 394Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 288



17. ———. Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 31 August 1664, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 359Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 289

18. ———. Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 31 October 1664, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 360Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 289

19. ———. Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 10 January 1665, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 400Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 289

20. ———. Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 27 March 1665, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 363Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and astronomy..."p.136


22. ———. Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 25 April 1665, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 364Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 290

23. ———. Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 25 April 1665, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 404Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 290


25. ———. Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 25 July 1665, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 366

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Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 290






31. ———. Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 4 September 1666, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 373Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 293

32. ———. Letter to no name, 9 October 1655, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 374Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152

33. ———. Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 12 June 1660, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 377Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152

34. ———. Letter to no name, 21 August 1660, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 378Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152

35. ———. Letter to no name, 10 September 1661, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 379Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152

36. ———. Letter to no name, no date, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 380Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152

37. ———. Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 3 February 1662, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 381Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152

38. ———. Letter to no name, 24 March 1662, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 382

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Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152

39. ———. Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 14 May 1663, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 386Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152

40. ———. Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 7 July 1663, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 387Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152

41. ———. Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 4 January 1664, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 388Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152


43. ———. Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 1 March 1664, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 390Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152

44. ———. Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 15 March 1664, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 391Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152

45. ———. Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 16 April 1664, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 392Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152


47. ———. Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 31 August 1664, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 398Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152

48. ———. Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 31 October 1664, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 399Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152



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53. ———. Pietro Paolo Mariani to Anckel, Johann Georg, 4 August 1665 , Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 408Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152



56. ———. Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 6 September 1665, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 411Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152



59. ———. Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 7 November 1665, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 414Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152

60. ———. Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 26 December 1665, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 415Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152



63. ———. Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 20 March 1666, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - 26

Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 418Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152

64. ———. Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 16 April 1666, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 419Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152



67. ———. Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 24 June 1666, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 422Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152


69. ———. Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 4 September 1666, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 424Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152

70. ———. Athanasius Kircher: Iter Cometae anni 1664 a 14. Decemb. Usque ad 30 Romae observatum. A Serenissimum Principem Augustum Ducem Brunsuic. et Luneburg, 3 Januar y1665, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 361Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152

71. ———. Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 21 February 1665, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 362Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152

72. ———. Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 8 May 1665, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 365Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152

73. ———. Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 8 January 1666, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 369Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152

74. - Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: Cod. Guelf. 3.5. Aug. 4° Notes: http://diglib.hab.de/edoc/ed000005/sourcesurvey.htm

Yale University Library, Beinicke Rare Book Room27

1. Marci of Kronland, Jan Marcus. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 19 August 1666, Yale University Library, Beinicke Rare Book Room.Call Number: Beinicke Rare Book Room ms. 408Notes: Bound with Voynich manuscript

Zámrsk, Státní oblastní archívCollection: Rodinný archiv Piccolomini

1.Ottavio Piccolomini to Kircher, Nurenberg, 9 May, 1650Call Number: 13668Notes: Suzanne Sutherland

2.Kircher to Ottavio Piccolomini, Rome, 28 February, 1650 Call Number: 13737Notes: Suzanne Sutherland

2. Published letters

1. Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi). Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 19 June 1639, Published in Athanasius Kircher, Obelisci Aegyptiaci nuper inter Isaei Romani rudera effossi Interpretatio Hieroglyphica, Rome: Varersi, 1666, p. 126. Original letter is in APUG 556 ff. 15r-16v.Notes: Copy used BAV Chigi.I.517 (presentation copy with elaborate gilded red-leather binding bearing Chigi arms)

2. Brouzet, Louis. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 28 December 1632, Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 477 - 479 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Latin, transl. from French. Accompanied by engraving of two sarcophagi. The original ms. does not appear to be in APUG

3. Burattini, Tito Livio. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 15 September 1652, Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus II Pars Altera (1653), p. 303 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).

4. ———. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), pp. 399-401 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Italian.

5. Chappuius, Ioannes. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 15 February 1645, Published in Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae (1646) p. 883.

6. Friedrich III, duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 1 August 1655, Published in J.P. von Ludewig "Reliquiae manuscriptorum omnis aevi diplomatum..., Frankfurt 1720-1741, V. pp. 391-392. Call Number: BL 182.a.8

7. Gassendi, Pierre. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 2 August 1633, Published in Gassendi, Petri Gassendi Diniensis, Ecclesiae Praepositi, et in Academia Parisiensi Matheseos, Regii Professoris EPISTOLAE, Lugduni: Sumptibus Laurentii Anisson, 1658. Tom. 6, p. 58.

8. ———. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 5 July 1640, Published in Gassendi, Petri Gassendi Diniensis, Ecclesiae Praepositi, et in Academia Parisiensi Matheseos, Regii Professoris EPISTOLAE, Lugduni: Sumptibus Laurentii Anisson, 1658. Tom. 6, pp. 98-99.

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Notes: An excerpt of this letter was previously published in Athanasius Kircher, Magnes, Rome: Ludovico Grignani, 1641, pp. 481-3. The original ms. seems to have been lost.

9. Grandami, Jacques. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, undated (9 May 1640), Published excerpt in Athanasius Kircher, Magnes, Rome: Ludovico Grignani, 1641, pp. 473-4. Notes: Latin

10. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to De Cambis, Jean, D'Orsan, De Langes, Siffredy, Barthomolmé, and Carre, Pierre, 10 May 1633, Published in Athanasius Kircher, Primitiae Gnomomicae Catoptricae, Avignon: I. Piot; 1635, following titlepage (pp. non-num.).Notes: Dedication of work. Copy consulted: BAV Barberini.N.III.17

11. ———. Letter to Barberini, Francesco, 2 August 1636, Published in Athanasius Kircher, Prodomus coptus, Rome, Typis S. Cong. de propag. Fide, 1636, sig. † 2 recto - sig †† 2 recto.Notes: Dedicatory letter. Copy consulted BAV Barberini Y.II.6.

12. ———. Letter to Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, 4 May 1641, Published in Athanasius Kircher, Magnes, Rome: Ludovico Grignani, 1641, Sig. a3 recto - Sig. a4 verso.Notes: Dedicatory letter.

13. ———. Letter to Rhodius, Johann, 16 June 1642, Published in T. Bartholinus, De armillis veterum schedion. Accessit O. Wormii de Aureo Cornu Danico ad Licetum responsio, Amsterdam, 1676, II, 29-31.Notes: From Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 159.

14. ———. Letter to Nihus, Barthold, 9 November 1647, Published in L. Allacci, [Greek] sive opusculorum graecorum et latinorum vetustiorum ac recentiorum libri duo, ed. B. Nihus, Cologne, 1653, I 237-238. Venice 1733, I 51-52.Notes: From Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 158.

15. ———. Letter to Hevelius, Johann, 14 February 1648, Published in J.E. Olhoff, Excerpta, p. 8. C.G. von Murr, ed., Journal, XVII (1789) 312-13.Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 154.

16. ———. Letter to Frankenberg, Abraham von, 8 November 1648, Published in J.E. Olhoff, Excerpta ex literis illust. et clariss. virorum ad J. Hevelium, Danzig, 1683, p. 14. C.G: von Murr, ed., Journal zur Kunstgeschichte und zur allgemeinen Literatur, Nuremberg, XVII (1789) 314-315.Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 157

17. ———. Letter to Hevelius, Johann, 20 June 1649, Published in J.E. Olhoff, Excerpta, p. 17. C.G. von Murr, ed., Journal, XVII (1789) 313-4.Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 154.

18. ———. Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 18 January 1650, Published in Z. Goetz, Ad Augustum D.B. et L. Athanasii Kircheri S.I. epistolae tres, Osnabrück, 1717.Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..." p. 284

19. ———. Letter to Carlo III Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montserrat, 10 February 1650, Published in C. Lozzi, ed., Il Bibliofilo, Florence, V (1884) pp. 56-57.Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..." p. 156

20. ———. Letter to Friedrich III, duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf, 10 June 1650, Published in J.P. von Ludewig "Reliquiae manuscriptorum omnis aevi diplomatum..., Frankfurt 1720-1741, V. pp. 385-387.Call Number: BL: 182.a.8

21. ———. Letter to Rhodius, Johann, 27 August 1650, Published in Fortuno Liceti, De lucernis antiquorum reconditis libri quatuor, Utini, 1652, VI. 1252-1254.Notes: From Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 159.

22. ———. Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 4 May 1651, Published in Z. Goetz, Ad Augustum 29

D.B. et L. Athanasii Kircheri S.I. epistolae tres, Osnabrück, 1717.Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..." p. 284

23. ———. Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 28 July 1651, Published in Z. Goetz, Ad Augustum D.B. et L. Athanasii Kircheri S.I. epistolae tres, Osnabrück, 1717.Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..." p. 284

24. ———. Letter to Schott, Gaspar, 22 March 1654, Published in Schott, Gaspar. Mechanica hydraulico-pneumatica.. Würzburg; 1657, pp. 312-313.

25. ———. Letter to Friedrich III, duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf, 16 April 1655, Published in J.P. von Ludewig "Reliquiae manuscriptorum omnis aevi diplomatum..., Frankfurt 1720-1741, V. pp. 387-388. Cit. in Fletcher "Athanasius Kircher und seine Beziehungen" p. 107.Call Number: BL: 182.a.8

26. ———. Letter to Schott, Gaspar, 26 February 1656, Published in Schott, Gaspar. Mechanica hydraulico-pneumatica.. Würzburg; 1657, pp. 452-3.

27. ———. Letter to Schott, Gaspar, 25 March 1656, Published in Schott, Pantometrum Kircherianum, Wuerzburg, 1660, Preface.

28. ———. Letter to Gibbes, James Alban, May 1656, Published in J.A. Gibbes, Carminum pars lyrica ad exemplum Q. Horatii Flacci quamproxime concinnata, Rome, 1668, p. 219.Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 157

29. ———. Letter to Hauptmann, August, 20 July 1657, Published in A. Hauptmann, Uhralter Wolckensteinischer warmer Badt- und Wasser-Schatz su unser lieben Frawen auf dem Sande genand, Leipzig, 1657, pp. 247-251.Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 157

30. ———. Letter to Langenmantel, Hieronymus Ambrosius, 18 February 1660, Published in Langenmantel, Hieronymo Ambrosio (ed ). Fasciculus Epistolarum Adm. R. P. Athanasii Kircheri Soc. Jesu, Viri in Mathematicis et Variorum Idiomatum Scientiis Celebratissimi, Complectentium Materias PhilosophicoMathematicoMedicas; Exartatae sunt Ad Nobilies, Eruditos atque Excellentissimos Viros, D.D. Lucas Schrökios, Seniorem & Juniorem. D. Hieronymum Velschium, Trigam Illustrem Medicorum, D. Ankelium, Theophilum Spizelium, & ad Autorem ipsum. Nunc primò in publiam lucem prodiére Accurante A. R. D. Hieronymo Ambrosio Langenmantelio, Patr. Aug. & Can. Insig. respectivè Eccles. S. Mauritii & S. Petri. Augusta Vindelicorus: Typis Utzschneiderianis; M.DC.LXXXIV.Call Number: BL 1165.b.15. Notes: 25 letters.

31. ———. Letter to Kinner von Löwenthurm, Godefrid Alois, 7 August 1661, Published in G. Schott, Organum mathematicum, Würzburg, 1668, pp. 57-64.Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 158.

32. ———. Letter to Schott, Gaspar, 16 December 1662, Published in Schott, Technica curiosa sive mirabilia artis, Nuremberg, 1664, p. 481.

33. ———. Letter to Wiegand, Melchior, 7 December 1664, Published in N. Seng, transl., Selbstbiographie des P. Athanasius Kircher, Fulda, 1901, pp. 67-68.Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 160

34. ———. Letter to Schott, Gaspar, 7 January 1665, Published in S. Lubienietzki, Theatrum cometicum, Amsterdam, 1668, 1666, I 764-765.Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ...., p. 159


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36. ———. Letter to Schott, Gaspar, 21 February 1665, Published in S. Lubienietzki, Theatrum cometicum, Amsterdam, 1668, 1666, I 764-765.Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ...., p. 159

37. ———. Letter to Lubienietzki, Stanislas, 8 May 1665, Published in S. Lubienietzki, Theatrum cometicum, Amsterdam, 1668, 1666, I 750-761.Notes: From Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 158.

38. ———. Letter to Lubienietzki, Stanislas, 25 July 1665, Published in S. Lubienietzki, Theatrum cometicum, Amsterdam, 1668, 1666, I 754-755, J.E. Olhoff, Excerpta, p. 107.Notes: From Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 158.

39. ———. Letter to Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi), 1 June 1666, Published in Athanasius Kircher, Obelisci Aegyptiaci nuper inter Isaei Romani rudera effossi Interpretatio Hieroglyphica, Rome: Varersi, 1666, following titlepage (ff. non-num.).Notes: Dedicatory letter. Copy used BAV Chigi.I.517 (presentation copy with elaborate gilded red-leather binding bearing Chigi arms)

40. ———. Letter to Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi), 28 July 1666, Published in A. M. Bandini, De obelisco Caesaris Aug. e Campi Martii ruderibus nuper eruto commentarius, Rome, 1750, p. 102.Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 156

41. ———. Letter to Schroeck, Lukas the Elder, June 1668, Published in Langenmantel, Hieronymo Ambrosio (ed ). Fasciculus Epistolarum Adm. R. P. Athanasii Kircheri Soc. Jesu, Viri in Mathematicis et Variorum Idiomatum Scientiis Celebratissimi, Complectentium Materias PhilosophicoMathematicoMedicas; Exartatae sunt Ad Nobilies, Eruditos atque Excellentissimos Viros, D.D. Lucas Schrökios, Seniorem & Juniorem. D. Hieronymum Velschium, Trigam Illustrem Medicorum, D. Ankelium, Theophilum Spizelium, & ad Autorem ipsum. Nunc primò in publiam lucem prodiére Accurante A. R. D. Hieronymo Ambrosio Langenmantelio, Patr. Aug. & Can. Insig. respectivè Eccles. S. Mauritii & S. Petri. Augusta Vindelicorus: Typis Utzschneiderianis; M.DC.LXXXIV, pp. 4-6.Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 159

42. ———. Letter to Schroeck, Lukas the Younger, 8 November 1670, Published in Langenmantel, Hieronymo Ambrosio (ed ). Fasciculus Epistolarum Adm. R. P. Athanasii Kircheri Soc. Jesu, Viri in Mathematicis et Variorum Idiomatum Scientiis Celebratissimi, Complectentium Materias PhilosophicoMathematicoMedicas; Exartatae sunt Ad Nobilies, Eruditos atque Excellentissimos Viros, D.D. Lucas Schrökios, Seniorem & Juniorem. D. Hieronymum Velschium, Trigam Illustrem Medicorum, D. Ankelium, Theophilum Spizelium, & ad Autorem ipsum. Nunc primò in publiam lucem prodiére Accurante A. R. D. Hieronymo Ambrosio Langenmantelio, Patr. Aug. & Can. Insig. respectivè Eccles. S. Mauritii & S. Petri. Augusta Vindelicorus: Typis Utzschneiderianis; M.DC.LXXXIV, pp. 7-25.Notes: Ten letters. Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 159

43. ———. Letter to Sachs von Löwenheim, Philipp Jakob, 6 February 1672, Published in J.D. Major, Memoria Sachsiana, Leipzig, 1675, pp. 39-40.Notes: From Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 159.

44. ———. Letter to Erbermann, Vitus, 7 February 1672, Published in H.A. Langenmantel, ed., Fasciculus, pp. 94-100. V. Erbermann, Trophaea Romana, Mainz, 1672, pp. 195-201 [recte 198].Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 157

45. ———. Letter to Tylkowski, Alberty, 23 November 1672, Published in A Tylkowski, Philosophia curiosa seu universa Aristotelis philosophia, Prague, 1680, Preface.Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 160

46. ———. Letter to Kuhlmann, Quirinus, 8 February 1674, Published in Q. Kuhlmann, Epistola de arte magna sciendi sive combinatoria, [Amsterdam?], 1674, Epistolae duae, Leyden, 1674 and 1675, AZ! Kircheriana de arte magna sciendi sive combinatoria, London, 1681. Responsoria, London 1681.Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 158.

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47. ———. Letter to Kuhlmann, Quirinus, 8 February 1674, Published in Q. Kuhlmann, Epistolae duae, Leyden, 1674 and 1675, AZ! Kircheriana de arte magna sciendi sive combinatoria, London, 1681. Responsoria, London 1681.Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 158.

48. ———. Letter to Monrad, Johan, 12 February 1675, Published in C.E. Jordan, Recueil de literature, de philosophie et d'histoire, Amsterdam, 1730, pp. 141-143. C. Giessing, Nye samling af danske, norske og islandske iubel-laere, Copenhagen, 1779-1786, III i 224.Notes: From Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 158.

49. ———. Letter to Henschenius, Godefridus, 2 July 1675, Published in J.B. Pitra, Etudes sur la Collection des Actes des Saints par les RR. PP. Jésuites Bollandistes, Paris, 1850, pp. 202-203.Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 157

50. ———. Letter to Saint-Andiol, Gaspard de Varadier de, 9 November 1676, Published in G. de Varadier de Saint-Andiol, Juvenilia, Arles, 1679, pp. 349-350.Notes: From Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 159.

51. ———. Letter to Saint-Andiol, Gaspard de Varadier de, 7 December 1676, Published in G. de Varadier de Saint-Andiol, Juvenilia, Arles, 1679, pp. 351-353.Notes: From Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 159.

52. ———. Letter to Paullini, Christian Franz, 4 February 1679, Published in C.F. Paullini, Disquisitio curiosa an mors naturalis plerumque sit substantia verminosa, Frankfurt, 1703, pp. 181-182.Notes: From Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 158.

53. ———. Letter to Ferdinand Johann, Prince of Lichtenstein, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus II Pars Altera (1653), p. 5 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedicatory letter for section entitled "Sectio I. De Arithmetica Hieroglyphica" (of Class. VII. Mathematica Hieroglyphica)

54. ———. Letter to Gans, Johann, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus II Pars Altera (1653), p. 83 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedicatory letter for section entitled "Sectio II. De Geometria Hieroglyphica" (of Class. VII. Mathematica Hieroglyphica)

55. ———. Letter to Johann Friedrich, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus II Pars Altera (1653), p. 119 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedicatory letter for section entitled "Sectio III. De Musica Hieroglyphica" (of Class. VII. Mathematica Hieroglyphica)

56. ———. Letter to Auersperg, Johann Weickard von, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus II Pars Altera (1653), p. 139 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedicatory letter for section entitled "Sectio IV. Astrologia Aegyptiorum & Chaldaeorum hieroglyphica" (of Class. VII. Mathematica Hieroglyphica)

57. ———. Letter to Lippay, Georg, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus II Pars Altera (1653), p. 279 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedicatory letter for Classis VIII. Mechanica sive architectonica.

58. ———. Letter to Schönborn, Johann Philipp von, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus II Pars Altera (1653), p. 345 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedicatory letter for Classis IX. Iatrica, sive Medicina Hieroglyphica.

59. ———. Letter to Ferdinando II dei Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, 32

Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus II Pars Altera (1653), p. 387 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedicatory letter for Classis X. Alchimia Hieroglyphica, sive Aurifera Ars Aegyptiorum

60. ———. Letter to Friedrich, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus II Pars Altera (1653), p. 435 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedicatory letter for Classis XI. Magia Hieroglyphica.

61. ———. Letter to Alexander VII, Pope Fabio Chigi, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus II Pars Altera (1653), p. 497 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedicatory letter for Classis XII. Theosophia Metaphysica, seu Theologia Hieroglyphica.

62. ———. Letter to Electors of the Holy Roman Empire, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 1 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedicatory letter for volume

63. ———. Letter to Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 7 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedicatory preface

64. ———. Letter to Leopold Wilhelm, Archduke of Austria, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 79 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedication of Syntagma I. Mensa Isiaca, sive Tabula Bembina.

65. ———. Letter to Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 161 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedication of Syntagma II. OBELISCUS RAMESSAEUS, SIVE LATERANENSIS.

66. ———. Letter to Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 213 (mispaginated "21") (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedication of Syntagma III. Obeliscus Flaminius, olim Sennesertaeus.

67. ———. Letter to Leopold Ignaz, Archduke of Austria, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 257 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedication of Syntagma IV. Obeliscus Sallustius, sive Ludovisius.

68. ———. Letter to Barberini, Francesco, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 271 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedication of Syntagma V. Obeliscus olim Veranus modo Barberinus.

69. ———. Letter to Barberini, Antonio, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 303 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedication of Syntagma VI. Obeliscus Constantinopolitanus a Theodosio Imperatore in Hippodromo Byzantino erectus.

70. ———. Letter to Medici, Matthias de' and Medici, Leopoldo de', n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), pp. 317 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Latin. Dedicatory letter for Syntagma VII. Obelisci Minores et sunt Monticaelius, Mediceus, Mahutaeus.

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71. ———. Letter to Gravenegg, Joachim von, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 329 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Latin. Dedicatory letter for Syntagma VIII. Obeliscus Heliopolitanus, Qui in hunc diem adhuc iuxta Mataream, Vicum Cayro Aegypti vicinum, erectus conspicitur.

72. ———. Letter to Suarés, Joseph-Marie, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 338 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Latin. Dedicatory letter for Syntagma IX. Obeliscus Alexandrinus.

73. ———. Letter to Medici, Giancarlo de', n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 347 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Latin. Dedicatory letter for Syntagma X. OBELISCUS FLORENTINUS

74. ———. Letter to Rapaccioli, Francesco Angelo, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 367 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedicatory letter for Syntagma XI. Obelisci Rasi qui sunt Exquilinus,et Vaticanus.

75. ———. Letter to Henckel, Lazarus, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 378 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedicatory letter for Syntagma XII. De fragmentis variorum Obeliscorum, quae in Urbe hodie supersunt.

76. ———. Letter to Brancacci, Francesco Maria, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 435 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedicatory letter for Syntagma XIV. De canopis Hieroglyphicis.

77. ———. Letter to Spada, Bernardino, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 453 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedicatory letter for Syntagma XV. De Sphyngibus Niloticis.

78. ———. Letter to Dal Pozzo, Cassiano and Dal Pozzo, Carlo Antonio, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 474 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedicatory letter for Syntagma XVI, De Penatibus, Laribus et Serapibus Aegyptiorum.

79. ———. Letter to Fano, Vincenzo, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 486 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedicatory letter for Syntagma XVII. De magnae efficaciae Idolis, sive de Dijs Averruncis primi ordinis.

80. ———. Letter to Harrach, Ernst Adalbert von, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 506 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedicatory letter for Syntagma XVIII. De Statuis Aegyptiacis Polycharacteristicis, id est, toto corpore hieroglyphicorum contextu conspicuis.

81. ———. Letter to Nihus, Barthold, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 518 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedicatory letter for Syntagma XIX. De Amuletis, & Periaptis, coeterisque portatilibus Icunculis, quibus Aegyptij utebantur.

82. ———. Letter to Nádasdy, Ferenc von, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 34

Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 530 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedicatory letter for Syntagma XX. De Lucernis Veterem Aegyptiorum.

83. ———. Letter to Holstenius, Lucas and Allacci, Leone, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 550 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedicatory letter for Anacephalaeosis totius operis. Compare ms. sent to Allacci in Biblioteca Vallicelliana, Carte Allacci CXLVII f. 304rv

84. ———. Letter to Leopold Wilhelm, Archduke of Austria, undated, Published in P. Lambeck, Commentariorum de augustissima Bibliotheca Caesarea Vindobonensi liber primus, Vienna, 1665, I, 90-91. Hannover, 1712, I, 90-91.Notes: From Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 158.

85. ———. Letter to Spizel, Gottlieb, undated (after 1671), Published in Langenmantel, Hieronymo Ambrosio (ed ). Fasciculus Epistolarum Adm. R. P. Athanasii Kircheri Soc. Jesu, Viri in Mathematicis et Variorum Idiomatum Scientiis Celebratissimi, Complectentium Materias PhilosophicoMathematicoMedicas; Exartatae sunt Ad Nobilies, Eruditos atque Excellentissimos Viros, D.D. Lucas Schrökios, Seniorem & Juniorem. D. Hieronymum Velschium, Trigam Illustrem Medicorum, D. Ankelium, Theophilum Spizelium, & ad Autorem ipsum. Nunc primò in publiam lucem prodiére Accurante A. R. D. Hieronymo Ambrosio Langenmantelio, Patr. Aug. & Can. Insig. respectivè Eccles. S. Mauritii & S. Petri. Augusta Vindelicorus: Typis Utzschneiderianis; M.DC.LXXXIV, pp. 6-7. Notes: Langenmantel prints this letter again at pp. 91-92, giving as the recipient Georg Hieronymus Welsch and the date 17 February 1660. Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 159

86. ———. Letter to Saint-Andiol, Gaspard de Varadier de, undated (after February 1677), Published in G. de Varadier de Saint-Andiol, Juvenilia, Arles, 1679, pp. 354-355.Notes: From Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 159.

87. ———. Letter to Schenk, Joseph Theodor, undated (c. 1668), Published in J.F. Heckel, Manipulus primus epistolarum singularium, Plauen, 1695, pp. 115-116.Notes: From Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 159.

88. ———. Letter to Paullini, Christian Franz, undated (c. 1675), Published in C.F. Paullini, Cynographia curiosa seu canis descriptio, Nuremberg, 1685. Prefatory material, no. 1 of "Vota et censurae aliorum excellentium virorum".Notes: From Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 158.

89. Leopold Wilhelm, Archduke of Austria. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 3 April 1660, Published on third page of Kircher's Polygraphia Universalis.

90. Martini, Martino. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 1638, Published excerpt in Athanasius Kircher, Magnes, Rome: Ludovico Grignani, 1641, pp. 433-435.

91. ———. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, undated (6 February 1639), Published excerpt in Athanasius Kircher, Magnes, Rome: Ludovico Grignani, 1641, pp. 436.

92. Maurus, Petrus. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, Published in Athanasius Kircher, Magnes, Rome: Ludovico Grignani, 1641, pp. 502-503.Notes: Copy used BAV Barberini M.III.33. No corresponding letter appears to be in APUG.

93. Mersenne, Marin. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, undated, Published excerpt in Athanasius Kircher, Magnes, Rome: Ludovico Grignani, 1641, pp. 473. Notes: Latin

94. Nardi, Giovanni. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 13 February 1651, Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 348-9 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: The date does not appear to correspond to any of the letters from Nardi conserved in

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95. Nicusio, Panaioti. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 15 June 1654, Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), pp. 305-6 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Italian

96. Reniger, Simon. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 15 June 1654, Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), pp. 304-5 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).

97. Letter to Mathieu Compain, 19 November 1666, in: Spon 1673, pp. 208-211. (Findlen 2004, p. 307.)

98. Leter to Melchior Hanel, Melchior Hanel: Parabolae vulpium Rabbi Barachiae Nikdani, Pragae 1665. „Lectori Benevolo Athanasius Kircherus“.(signature to be checked)

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3. Kircher’s correspondence outside APUG 555-568 (including published letters) arranged according to recipient,

Albano, Monsignore

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Albano, Monsignore, 9 February 1660, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Vat. Lat. 9064 f. 93r-94rNotes: Copy, Italian, Latin, Greek. Consulted 22.6.1999

Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi)

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi), 14 July 1662, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Chigi F IV 48 ff. 1r-11vNotes: Latin, Greek, Arabic. Scribal hand. Introduction to "De Compositione Astrolabii (Herimanni)". Copy in BAV Chigi J. VI. 225, ff. 48r-58v

2. ———. Letter to Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi), 14 July 1662, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Chigi J. VI. 225, ff. 48r-58vNotes: Latin, Greek, Arabic. Scribal hand. Introduction to "De Compositione Astrolabii (Herimanni)". Copy of BAV Chigi F IV 48 ff. 1r-11v

3. ———. Letter to Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi), 1 June 1666, Published in Athanasius Kircher, Obelisci Aegyptiaci nuper inter Isaei Romani rudera effossi Interpretatio Hieroglyphica, Rome: Varersi, 1666, following titlepage (ff. non-num.).Notes: Dedicatory letter. Copy used BAV Chigi.I.517 (presentation copy with elaborate gilded red-leather binding bearing Chigi arms)

4. ———. Letter to Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi), 28 July 1666, Published in A. M. Bandini, De obelisco Caesaris Aug. e Campi Martii ruderibus nuper eruto commentarius, Rome, 1750, p. 102.Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 156

Alexander VII, Pope (Fabio Chigi)

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Alexander VII, Pope Fabio Chigi, 29 August 1663, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Chigi J. VI. 225 ff. 1r-9vNotes: Latin, Autograph signature. Consulted 24.6.1999. Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Beziehungen, p. 152

2. ———. Letter to Alexander VII, Pope Fabio Chigi, 28 January 1666, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Chigi, C.V. 134, inside front cover.Notes: Cited in Bartòla, Alberto. Alessandro VII e Athanasius Kircher S.I. Ricerche e appunti sulla loro corrispondenza erudita e sulla storia di alcuni codici chigiani. Miscellanea Bibliothecae Apostolicae Vaticanae. 1989; III: 7-105. Consulted. Autograph minutes in APUG 563, f. 303.

3. ———. Letter to Alexander VII, Pope Fabio Chigi, 27 October 1666, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Chigi J.VI.225 ff. 66r-67vNotes: Autograph, Latin. Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Beziehungen, p. 152

4. ———. Letter to Alexander VII, Pope Fabio Chigi, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus II Pars Altera (1653), p. 497 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedicatory letter for Classis XII. Theosophia Metaphysica, seu Theologia Hieroglyphica.

Allacci, Leone

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Allacci, Leone, 27 November 1654, Rome, Biblioteca Vallicelliana.

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Call Number: Carte Allacci CXLVII ff. 303r-304vNotes: From Kristeller, Iter italicum, VI, p. 189a. Consulted 24.6.1999


Almichoven, Theodor

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Almichoven, Theodor, 2 September 1678, Munich, Bayerische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek.Call Number: Collectio Camerariana Cod. lat. 10383/134Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Beziehungen, p. 152

Anckel, Johann Georg

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 16 July 1659, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 376Notes: Copy. Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 285

2. ———. Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 17 October 1660, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek.Call Number: HAB Ms. Cod. Guelf. 3. 5. Aug. 4o f. 30r-vNotes: Consulted 12.6.1997. In German.

3. ———. Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 17 October 1661, Basel, Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität.Call Number: to be checkedNotes: Published in H. A. Langenmantel, Fasciculus, pp. 26-30. Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152


5. ———. Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 22 July 1662, Basel, Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität.Call Number: to be checkedNotes: Published in H. A. Langenmantel, Fasciculus, pp. 1-3 (Langenmantel gives as the recipient Lukas Schroek the Elder). Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152

6. ———. Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 2 September 1662, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 384Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 287

7. ———. Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 15 February 1663, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 385Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 287

8. ———. Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 17 May 1664, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 393Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 288

9. ———. Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 20 June 1664, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 394

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12. ———. Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 10 January 1665, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 400Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 289

13. ———. Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 29 April 1665, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 404Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 290


15. ———. Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, to be checked, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 374Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152







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34. ———. Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, to be checked, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - 40

Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 405Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152












46. ———. Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, to be checked, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.

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Call Number: HAB BA n. 418Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152







Angles, Bernard d'

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Angles, Bernard d', 2 March 1654, Dijon, Bibliothèque Municipale.Call Number: Bibliothèque Municipale ms. 844Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152

Auersperg, Johann Weickard von

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Auersperg, Johann Weickard von, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus II Pars Altera (1653), p. 139 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedicatory letter for section entitled "Sectio IV. Astrologia Aegyptiorum & Chaldaeorum hieroglyphica" (of Class. VII. Mathematica Hieroglyphica)

August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, January 1650, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 351Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..." p. 284

2. ———. Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 18 January 1650, Published in Z. Goetz, Ad Augustum D.B. et L. Athanasii Kircheri S.I. epistolae tres, Osnabrück, 1717.Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..." p. 284

3. ———. Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, March 1651, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 353

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4. ———. Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 4 May 1651, Published in Z. Goetz, Ad Augustum D.B. et L. Athanasii Kircheri S.I. epistolae tres, Osnabrück, 1717.Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..." p. 284

5. ———. Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, July 1651, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 354Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 285

6. ———. Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 28 July 1651, Published in Z. Goetz, Ad Augustum D.B. et L. Athanasii Kircheri S.I. epistolae tres, Osnabrück, 1717.Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..." p. 284

7. ———. Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 3 January 1660, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 355Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 286

8. ———. Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 3 June 1660, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek.Call Number: HAB BA n. 356Notes: Cit. in Fletcher (ed.) "Athanasius Kircher und seine..." p. 107. Published in Burkhard II, 131-133

9. ———. Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 2 October 1660, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek .Call Number: HAB Cod. Guelf. 3. 5 Aug. 4o fol. 29Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152

10. ———. Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 20 June 1663, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 358Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 288


12. ———. Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 31 October 1664, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 360Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 289




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19. ———. Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 19 March 1666, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek .Call Number: HAB 6 Nov. 2o ff. 59-61Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 291. Extract also in HAB Cod. Guelf. 3.I. 300 Aug. 2o




23. ———. Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 4 September 1666, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 373Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 293

24. ———. Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, to be checked, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 361Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152




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Barberini, Antonio

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Barberini, Antonio, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 303 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedication of Syntagma VI. Obeliscus Constantinopolitanus a Theodosio Imperatore in Hippodromo Byzantino erectus.

Barberini, Francesco

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Barberini, Francesco, 2 August 1636, Published in Athanasius Kircher, Prodomus coptus, Rome, Typis S. Cong. de propag. Fide, 1636, sig. † 2 recto - sig †† 2 recto.Notes: Dedicatory letter. Copy consulted BAV Barberini Y.II.6.

2. ———. Letter to Barberini, Francesco, 6 March 1653, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Barb. Lat. 6467 f. 37r-vNotes: Autograph, Italian. Consulted.

3. ———. Letter to Barberini, Francesco, 21 November 1666, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Barb. Lat. 6467 f. 38r-vNotes: Autograph, Italian.

4. ———. Letter to Barberini, Francesco, 14 December 1667, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Barb. Lat. 6467 f. 39r-vNotes: Autograph, Italian. Consulted

5. ———. Letter to Barberini, Francesco, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 271 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedication of Syntagma V. Obeliscus olim Veranus modo Barberinus.

Billy, Jacques de

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Billy, Jacques de, 21 February 1660, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN Lat. 8600, f.29r 30v. Notes: Autograph, Latin.

Brancacci, Francesco Maria

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Brancacci, Francesco Maria, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 435 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedicatory letter for Syntagma XIV. De canopis Hieroglyphicis.

Buxtorf, Johann

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Buxtorf, Johann, 6 January 1638, Basel, Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität.Call Number: to be checkedNotes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 153

2. ———. Letter to Buxtorf, Johann, 2 January 1639, Basel, Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität.Call Number: to be checkedNotes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 153

Carlo III Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montserrat

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Carlo III Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montserrat, 10 February 1650, Published in C. Lozzi, ed., Il Bibliofilo, Florence, V (1884) pp. 56-57.Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..." p. 156

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Carre, Pierre


Chigi, Flavio

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Chigi, Flavio, 13 December 1666, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Chigi R. V. g f.460r-vNotes: Autograph, Italian. Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 156. Findlen suggests Flavio Chigi as recipient.

Conring, Herman?

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Conring, Herman, to be checked, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek .Call Number: HAB Extrav. 54 (fol. nos. to be checked)Notes: Kristeller, Iter italicum, VI; p. 547

Cosimo III dei Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Cosimo III dei Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 29 November 1675, Florence, Archivio di Stato.Call Number: ASF Med. 1114, f.8

2. ———. Letter to Cosimo III dei Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 20 December 1675, Florence, Archivio di Stato.Call Number: ASF Med 3942 f.1

3. ———. Letter to Cosimo III dei Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 30 October 1678, Florence, Archivio di Stato.Call Number: ASF Med, 1115, f.6

D'Orsan


Dal Pozzo, Carlo Antonio

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Dal Pozzo, Cassiano and Dal Pozzo, Carlo Antonio, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 474 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedicatory letter for Syntagma XVI, De Penatibus, Laribus et Serapibus Aegyptiorum.

Dal Pozzo, Cassiano

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Dal Pozzo, Cassiano, 15 August 1637, Montpellier, Ecole de Médicine.Call Number: H268 f. 9rvNotes: Cit. Anna Nicolo, Il Carteggio di Cassiano dal Pozzo: Catalogo, Florence: Olschki, 1991, p. 3

2. ———. Letter to Dal Pozzo, Cassiano, 18 September 1647, Montpellier, Ecole de Médicine.Call Number: H270 fol. 291Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 153. Cit. Anna Nicolo, Il Carteggio di Cassiano dal Pozzo: Catalogo, Florence: Olschki, 1991, p. 8

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3. ———. Letter to Dal Pozzo, Cassiano, 27 November 1647, Montpellier, Ecole de Médicine.Call Number: H270 ff. 292r-293vNotes: Cit. Anna Nicolo, Il Carteggio di Cassiano dal Pozzo: Catalogo, Florence: Olschki, 1991, p. 8

4. ———. Letter to Dal Pozzo, Cassiano and Dal Pozzo, Carlo Antonio, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 474 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedicatory letter for Syntagma XVI, De Penatibus, Laribus et Serapibus Aegyptiorum.

De Cambis, Jean


De Langes


Doni, Giovanni Battista

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Doni, Giovanni Battista, 19 October 1647, London, British Library.Call Number: BL Egerton ms. 22, fol. 40Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 153. A copy in Biblioteca Marucelliana, Florence, Cat. A, 289-290, c. 352

Electors of the Holy Roman Empire

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Electors of the Holy Roman Empire, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 1 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedicatory letter for volume

Erbermann, Vitus

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Erbermann, Vitus, 7 February 1672, Published in H.A. Langenmantel, ed., Fasciculus, pp. 94-100. V. Erbermann, Trophaea Romana, Mainz, 1672, pp. 195-201 [recte 198].Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 157

Fano, Vincenzo

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Fano, Vincenzo, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 486 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedicatory letter for Syntagma XVII. De magnae efficaciae Idolis, sive de Dijs Averruncis primi ordinis.

Favoriti, Agostino

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Favoriti, Agostino, 22 June 1665, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Vat. lat. 8202, f. 48rNotes: Italian, autograph signature. Consulted 24 June 1999. Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 153.

Ferdinand Albrecht, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

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1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Ferdinand Albrecht, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 20 June 1663, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek .Call Number: HAB Fb 4o 52Notes: Inside Ferdinand Albrecht's copy of the Polygraphia. From Fletcher, AK und..., p. 153

2. ———. Letter to Ferdinand Albrecht, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 7 March 1664, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek .Call Number: HAB Fb 4o 52Notes: Inside front of Ferdinand Albrecht's copy of the Polygraphia

Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, 4 May 1641, Published in Athanasius Kircher, Magnes, Rome: Ludovico Grignani, 1641, Sig. a3 recto - Sig. a4 verso.Notes: Dedicatory letter.

2. ———. Letter to Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 7 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedicatory preface

3. ———. Letter to Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 161 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedication of Syntagma II. OBELISCUS RAMESSAEUS, SIVE LATERANENSIS.

Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 213 (mispaginated "21") (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedication of Syntagma III. Obeliscus Flaminius, olim Sennesertaeus.

Ferdinand Johann, Prince of Lichtenstein

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Ferdinand Johann, Prince of Lichtenstein, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus II Pars Altera (1653), p. 5 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedicatory letter for section entitled "Sectio I. De Arithmetica Hieroglyphica" (of Class. VII. Mathematica Hieroglyphica)

Ferdinando II dei Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Ferdinando II dei Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 12 June 1658, Florence, Archivio di Stato.Call Number: ASF Med 1026, f.4Notes: autograph, ItalianKircher sent Ferdinando II the Itinerarium Exstaticum (1656) on 15th June, 1656, with the accompanying letter BNCF Ms. Gal. 275, f.43 (a copy is at APUG 561, 58r), printed in Mirto, pp. 153-4.

2. ———. Letter to Ferdinando II dei Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 8 November 1659, Florence, Archivio di Stato.Call Number: Mediceo del Principato, 1026, f.149Notes: autograph, Italian

3. ———. Letter to Ferdinando II dei Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 15 November 1659, Florence, Archivio di Stato.Call Number: ASF, Mediceo del Principato, 1026, f.150Notes: 15th November, 1659, Rome autograph signature

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la Cassetta del Artifizio delle lingueletter referred to in the postscript to APUG 556, 63r-64v (18th November, 1659), from Ferdinando II to Kircher.

4. ———. Letter to Ferdinando II dei Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 21 June 1663, Florence, Archivio di Stato.Call Number: ASF, Mediceo del Principato, 1206, f.515Notes: autograph signaturemisplaced in volume as 21st June, 1664.PolygraphiaReply from Ferdinando II is at APUG 555, 69r-70v.see also BNCF Ms. Gal. 276, f.201, sent to Leopoldo de' Medici the same day.

5. ———. Letter to Ferdinando II dei Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 7 July 1666, Florence, Archivio di Stato.Call Number: ASF Med, 1026, f.677Notes: not autographMirto, p157, & n.1, reproduces APUG 555, 125 (renumbered as 115r) which offers the Obelisci aegyptiaci, 1666 to the 'Gran Principe', i.e. Ferdinando II. This is the draft of the current letter, although the wording differs slightly, the sent version being fuller.Another letter sends the same book to the 'Seren.mo Principe' (i.e. Leopoldo?) - BNCF Aut. Palat., IV, 49 (3rd July, 1666), reproduced in Mirto, pp164-5.

6. ———. Letter to Ferdinando II dei Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 10 February 1672, Florence, Archivio di Stato.Call Number: ASF Med, 3940, f.4Notes: is this the right recipient? When does Ferdinando II die??

7. ———. Letter to Ferdinando II dei Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus II Pars Altera (1653), p. 387 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedicatory letter for Classis X. Alchimia Hieroglyphica, sive Aurifera Ars Aegyptiorum

Ferrand, Jean

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Ferrand, Jean, 4 June 1633, Carpentras, Bibliothèque de Carpentras.Call Number: Mss. de Peiresc, II. f. 402Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 153

2. ———. Letter to Ferrand, Jean, 4 June 1633, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN FF 9362 f.16rvNotes: Note: Copy, Latin. See Fletcher 'Kircher & Peiresc'

Frankenberg, Abraham von

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Frankenberg, Abraham von, 8 November 1648, Published in J.E. Olhoff, Excerpta ex literis illust. et clariss. virorum ad J. Hevelium, Danzig, 1683, p. 14. C.G: von Murr, ed., Journal zur Kunstgeschichte und zur allgemeinen Literatur, Nuremberg, XVII (1789) 314-315.Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 157

Friedrich III, duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Friedrich III, duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf, 18 January 1650, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek .Call Number: HAB Cod. Guelf. 12 Gud. lat., f. 223Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 153

2. ———. Letter to Friedrich III, duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf, 10 June 1650, Published in J.P. von Ludewig "Reliquiae manuscriptorum omnis aevi diplomatum..., Frankfurt 1720-1741, V. pp. 385-387.

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Call Number: BL: 182.a.8

3. ———. Letter to Friedrich III, duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf, 13 November 1652, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek .Call Number: HAB Cod. Guelf. 12 Gud. lat., f. 226Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 153

4. ———. Letter to Friedrich III, duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf, 16 April 1655, Published in J.P. von Ludewig "Reliquiae manuscriptorum omnis aevi diplomatum..., Frankfurt 1720-1741, V. pp. 387-388. Cit. in Fletcher "Athanasius Kircher und seine Beziehungen" p. 107.Call Number: BL: 182.a.8

Friedrich, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Friedrich, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus II Pars Altera (1653), p. 435 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedicatory letter for Classis XI. Magia Hieroglyphica.

Gans, Johann

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Gans, Johann, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus II Pars Altera (1653), p. 83 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedicatory letter for section entitled "Sectio II. De Geometria Hieroglyphica" (of Class. VII. Mathematica Hieroglyphica)

Gassendi, Pierre

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Gassendi, Pierre, 10 July 1633, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN NAL 1637 ff. 73r-74v.Notes: Published in Gassendi, Petri Gassendi Diniensis, Ecclesiae Praepositi, et in Academia Parisiensi Matheseos, Regii Professoris EPISTOLAE, Lugduni: Sumptibus Laurentii Anisson, 1658. Tom. 6, pp. 413-4

2. ———. Letter to Gassendi, Pierre, 23 September 1634, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN NAL 1637 ff. 57r - 58vNotes: Published in Gassendi, Petri Gassendi Diniensis, Ecclesiae Praepositi, et in Academia Parisiensi Matheseos, Regii Professoris EPISTOLAE, Lugduni: Sumptibus Laurentii Anisson, 1658. Tom. 6, pp. 426-7.

3. ———. Letter to Gassendi, Pierre, 2 July 1639, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN NAL 1637, ff. 109r-110vNotes: Published in Gassendi, Petri Gassendi Diniensis, Ecclesiae Praepositi, et in Academia Parisiensi Matheseos, Regii Professoris EPISTOLAE, Lugduni: Sumptibus Laurentii Anisson, 1658. Tom. 6, pp. 436-7.

4. ———. Letter to Gassendi, Pierre, 13 February 1642, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN NAL 1637 ff. 36r-37v Notes: Published in Gassendi, Petri Gassendi Diniensis, Ecclesiae Praepositi, et in Academia Parisiensi Matheseos, Regii Professoris EPISTOLAE, Lugduni: Sumptibus Laurentii Anisson, 1658. Tom. 6, p. 446

Gaudentius, Paganinus

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Gaudentius, Paganinus, 6 March 1642, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Urb. Lat. 1629 ff. 416r-417vNotes: Autograph. Latin.

2. ———. Letter to Gaudentius, Paganinus, 18 January 1647, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.

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Call Number: BAV Urb. Lat. 1629 ff. 370r-371vNotes: Autograph, Latin. Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 153

3. ———. Letter to Gaudentius, Paganinus, 17 March 1647, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Urb. Lat. 1629 ff. 390r-391vNotes: Autograph, Latin. Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 153

4. ———. Letter to Gaudentius, Paganinus, 4 May 1647, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Urb. Lat. 1629 ff. 457r-458vNotes: Autograph. Latin.

5. ———. Letter to Gaudentius, Paganinus, 9 June 1647, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Urb. Lat. 1629 ff. 465rvNotes: Autograph. Latin.

6. ———. Letter to Gaudentius, Paganinus, 24 August 1647, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Urb. Lat. 1629 ff. 480r-481vNotes: Autograph. Latin.

7. ———. Letter to Gaudentius, Paganinus, 11 October 1647, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Urb. Lat. 1629 ff. 514rvNotes: Autograph. Latin.

8. ———. Letter to Gaudentius, Paganinus, 22 February 1648, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Urb. Lat. 1629 ff. 573rNotes: Autograph. Latin.

Gibbes, James Alban

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Gibbes, James Alban, May 1656, Published in J.A. Gibbes, Carminum pars lyrica ad exemplum Q. Horatii Flacci quamproxime concinnata, Rome, 1668, p. 219.Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 157

Gonzaga, Ferdinando Giovanni di

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Gonzaga, Ferdinando Giovanni di, 6 July 1659, Castiglione, Archivio di Castiglione delle Stiviere.Call Number: Busta 241, cartella XLIII, no. 2, ff. non-num.Notes: Italian, Autograph. Cartella labelled: "Lettere delli PP Olderico Gheringo, et Atanasio Kircher Giesuiti supremo Professore di Matematica. 1659-1670". Also contains ms. list of Kircher's printed works. Information and photocopy from Guido Rebecchini

2. ———. Letter to Gonzaga, Ferdinando Giovanni di, 26 July 1659, Castiglione, Archivio di Castiglione delle Stiviere.Call Number: Busta 241, cartella XLIII, no. 3, ff. non-num.Notes: Italian, Autograph. Cartella labelled: "Lettere delli PP Olderico Gheringo, et Atanasio Kircher Giesuiti supremo Professore di Matematica. 1659-1670". Also contains ms. list of Kircher's printed works. Information and photocopy from Guido Rebecchini

3. ———. Letter to Gonzaga, Ferdinando Giovanni di, 19 November 1659, Castiglione, Archivio di Castiglione delle Stiviere.Call Number: Busta 241, cartella XLIII, no. 4, ff. non-num.Notes: Italian, signature autograph. Cartella labelled: "Lettere delli PP Olderico Gheringo, et Atanasio Kircher Giesuiti supremo Professore di Matematica. 1659-1670". Also contains ms. list of Kircher's printed works. Information and photocopy from Guido Rebecchini

4. ———. Letter to Gonzaga, Ferdinando Giovanni di, 28 October 1660, Castiglione, Archivio di Castiglione delle Stiviere.Call Number: Busta 241, cartella XLIII, no. 5, ff. non-num.Notes: Italian, autograph. Cartella labelled: "Lettere delli PP Olderico Gheringo, et Atanasio Kircher Giesuiti supremo Professore di Matematica. 1659-1670". Also contains ms. list of

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Kircher's printed works. Information and photocopy from Guido Rebecchini


6. ———. Letter to Gonzaga, Ferdinando Giovanni di, 2 May 1661, Castiglione, Archivio di Castiglione delle Stiviere.Call Number: Busta 241, cartella XLIII, no. 7, ff. non-num.Notes: Italian, autograph. Cartella labelled: "Lettere delli PP Olderico Gheringo, et Atanasio Kircher Giesuiti supremo Professore di Matematica. 1659-1670". Also contains ms. list of Kircher's printed works. Information and photocopy from Guido Rebecchini

7. ———. Letter to Gonzaga, Ferdinando Giovanni di, 12 September 1664, Castiglione, Archivio di Castiglione delle Stiviere.Call Number: Busta 241, cartella XLIII, no. 8, ff. non-num.Notes: Italian, autograph. Cartella labelled: "Lettere delli PP Olderico Gheringo, et Atanasio Kircher Giesuiti supremo Professore di Matematica. 1659-1670". Also contains ms. list of Kircher's printed works. Information and photocopy from Guido Rebecchini

8. ———. Letter to Gonzaga, Ferdinando Giovanni di, 14 March 1665, Castiglione, Archivio di Castiglione delle Stiviere.Call Number: Busta 241, cartella XLIII, no. 9, ff. non-num.Notes: Italian, autograph. Cartella labelled: "Lettere delli PP Olderico Gheringo, et Atanasio Kircher Giesuiti supremo Professore di Matematica. 1659-1670". Also contains ms. list of Kircher's printed works. Information and photocopy from Guido Rebecchini

9. ———. Letter to Gonzaga, Ferdinando Giovanni di, 16 January 1666, Castiglione, Archivio di Castiglione delle Stiviere.Call Number: Busta 241, cartella XLIII, no. 10, ff. non-num.Notes: Italian, autograph. Cartella labelled: "Lettere delli PP Olderico Gheringo, et Atanasio Kircher Giesuiti supremo Professore di Matematica. 1659-1670". Also contains ms. list of Kircher's printed works. Information and photocopy from Guido Rebecchini

10. ———. Letter to Gonzaga, Ferdinando Giovanni di, 28 January 1668, Castiglione, Archivio di Castiglione delle Stiviere.Call Number: Busta 241, cartella XLIII, no. 11, ff. non-num.Notes: Italian, signature autograph. Cartella labelled: "Lettere delli PP Olderico Gheringo, et Atanasio Kircher Giesuiti supremo Professore di Matematica. 1659-1670". Also contains ms. list of Kircher's printed works. Information and photocopy from Guido Rebecchini

11. ———. Letter to Gonzaga, Ferdinando Giovanni di, 18 January 1670, Castiglione, Archivio di Castiglione delle Stiviere.Call Number: Busta 241, cartella XLIII, no. 12, ff. non-num.Notes: Italian. Cartella labelled: "Lettere delli PP Olderico Gheringo, et Atanasio Kircher Giesuiti supremo Professore di Matematica. 1659-1670". Also contains ms. list of Kircher's printed works. Information and photocopy from Guido Rebecchini

12. Kircher, Athanasius, and Uldarico Gheringo. Letter to Gonzaga, Ferdinando Giovanni di, 6 December 1659, Castiglione, Archivio di Castiglione delle Stiviere.Call Number: Busta 241, cartella XLIII, no. 13, ff. non-num.Notes: Italian, signature autograph Much illegible on photocopy due to ink bleed-through. Cartella labelled: "Lettere delli PP Olderico Gheringo, et Atanasio Kircher Giesuiti supremo Professore di Matematica. 1659-1670". Also contains ms. list of Kircher's printed works. Information and photocopy from Guido Rebecchini

Grand Duke of Tuscany

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1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Grand Duke of Tuscany, 15 June 1656, Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale.Call Number: BNCF: Ms. Gal. 275 f.43rNotes: Consulted 2/5/1995. Check also Mirto, Alfonso. Le lettere di Athanasius Kircher della Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Firenze. Atti Mem. Accad. Toscana Sci. Lett. Colombaria. 1989; Vol. 54(n. s. 40): pp. 129-165 for this and other letters in Florence

Gravenegg, Joachim von

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Gravenegg, Joachim von, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 329 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Latin. Dedicatory letter for Syntagma VIII. Obeliscus Heliopolitanus, Qui in hunc diem adhuc iuxta Mataream, Vicum Cayro Aegypti vicinum, erectus conspicitur.

Gronovius, Johann Friedrich

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Gronovius, Johann Friedrich, 2 November 1652, Munich, Bayerische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek.Call Number: Ms. 617, fol. 100r-100vNotes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 153

Harrach, Ernst Adalbert von

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Harrach, Ernst Adalbert von, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 506 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedicatory letter for Syntagma XVIII. De Statuis Aegyptiacis Polycharacteristicis, id est, toto corpore hieroglyphicorum contextu conspicuis.

Hauptmann, August

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Hauptmann, August, 20 July 1657, Published in A. Hauptmann, Uhralter Wolckensteinischer warmer Badt- und Wasser-Schatz su unser lieben Frawen auf dem Sande genand, Leipzig, 1657, pp. 247-251.Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 157

Henckel, Lazarus

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Henckel, Lazarus, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 378 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedicatory letter for Syntagma XII. De fragmentis variorum Obeliscorum, quae in Urbe hodie supersunt.

Henschenius, Godefridus

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Henschenius, Godefridus, 2 July 1675, Published in J.B. Pitra, Etudes sur la Collection des Actes des Saints par les RR. PP. Jésuites Bollandistes, Paris, 1850, pp. 202-203.Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 157

Hevelius, Johann

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Hevelius, Johann, 14 February 1648, Published in J.E. Olhoff, Excerpta, p. 8. C.G. von Murr, ed., Journal, XVII (1789) 312-13.Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 154.

2. ———. Letter to Hevelius, Johann, 20 June 1649, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN NAL 1635 f.109Notes: Autograph, Latin

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3. ———. Letter to Hevelius, Johann, 20 June 1649, Published in J.E. Olhoff, Excerpta, p. 17. C.G. von Murr, ed., Journal, XVII (1789) 313-4.Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 154.

4. ———. Letter to Hevelius, Johann, 17 February 1652, Paris, Observatoire.Call Number: Obs., C.1.2, f.316rvNotes: Autograph, waterdamaged.

5. ———. Letter to Hevelius, Johann, 22 February 1653, Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Darmstaedter Dokumentensammlung.Call Number: F. 2.c 1646 (1)Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 154

6. ———. Letter to Hevelius, Johann, 30 January 1655, Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Darmstaedter Dokumentensammlung.Call Number: F. 2.c 1646 (1)Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 154. Published in J.E. Olhoff, Excerpta, p. 19. C.G. von Murr, ed., Journal, XVII (1789) 315

7. ———. Letter to Hevelius, Johann, 8 May 1665, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN NAL 1640 f. 59rvNotes: Latin, Autograph . Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 154

8. - Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Hevelius, Johann, 8 November 1648, Published in J.E. Olhoff, Excerpta, Notes: Cit. Fletcher, Astronomy and A.K., p. 65.

Hirt, Johann Martin

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Hirt, Johann Martin, 7 March 1659, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 375Notes: Copy. Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 285

Holstenius, Lucas

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Holstenius, Lucas, 24 November 1654, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Barb. Lat. 6499, f. 119rNotes: consulted. Autograph

2. ———. Letter to Holstenius, Lucas, 15 October 1655, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Barb. Lat. 6499, f. 120rNotes: cited in Findlen, "Scientific spectacle ..."


Jesuit, unidentified

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Jesuit, unidentified, 1672, Prague, Strahov monastery.Call Number: to be checkedNotes: Information provided by Rene Zandbergen

Johann Friedrich, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Johann Friedrich, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, n.d., Published in 54

Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus II Pars Altera (1653), p. 119 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedicatory letter for section entitled "Sectio III. De Musica Hieroglyphica" (of Class. VII. Mathematica Hieroglyphica)

Kinner, Cyprian

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Kinner, Cyprian, 20 February 1648, Sheffield, Hartlib Papers.Call Number: Hartlib Papers 1/33/31BNotes: From Hartlib Papers CD ROM

2. ———. Letter to Kinner, Cyprian, 7 November 1648, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek.Call Number: HAB Cod. Guelf. 10.5. Aug. 2o, ff. 207r-208rNotes: Published in Richard van Dülmen, Ein unbekannter Brief von Athanasius Kircher. Studia Leibnitiana. 1972; 4: pp. 141-145. Copy.

3. ———. Letter to Kinner, Cyprian, 7 November 1648, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 350.1Notes: .Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 154.

Kinner von Löwenthurm, Godefrid Alois

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Kinner von Löwenthurm, Godefrid Alois, 7 August 1661, Published in G. Schott, Organum mathematicum, Würzburg, 1668, pp. 57-64.Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 158.

Kircher, Athanasius

1. Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi). Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 19 June 1639, Published in Athanasius Kircher, Obelisci Argyptiaci nuper inter Isaei Romani rudera effossi Interpretatio Hieroglyphica, Rome: Varersi, 1666, p. 126. Original letter is in APUG 556 ff. 15r-16v.Notes: Copy used BAV Chigi.I.517 (presentation copy with elaborate gilded red-leather binding bearing Chigi arms)

2. Alexander VII, Pope Fabio Chigi. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 14 February 1648, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Chigi a. I 45, ff. 164r-165vNotes: Cit. in Cygan "Valerianus Magni Vita Prima.." p.266. Worth consulting

3. ———. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 29 May 1648, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Chigi a. I. 45, f. 187vNotes: Draft. Consulted 16/5/1995

4. ———. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 24 February 1651, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Chigi A. I. 8, f. 163rNotes: Minutes. Original in APUG 556 ff. 43r-44v

5. ———. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 1 April 1651, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Chigi A. I. 8, f. 172rvNotes: Minutes. Original in APUG 556 ff. 37r-38v

6. ———. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 24 June 1651, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Chigi A. I. 8, f. 193rvNotes: Minutes. Original in APUG 556 f. 47rv

7. August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, January 1651, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv.Call Number: HAB BA n. 352Notes: Copy. Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 284

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8. Brouzet, Louis. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 28 December 1632, Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 477 - 479 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Latin, transl. from French. Accompanied by engraving of two sarcophagi. The original ms. does not appear to be in APUG

9. Burattini, Tito Livio. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 15 September 1652, Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus II Pars Altera (1653), p. 303 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).

10. ———. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), pp. 399-401 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Italian.

11. Chappuius, Ioannes. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 15 February 1645, Published in Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae (1646) p. 883.

12. Charpentier, François. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 15 October 1648, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN NAF 6262, f.30rv

13. Coninck, Juan Ramón de. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 20 July 1653, Paris, Observatoire.Call Number: Obs., C.1.3, f.431rNotes: Copy, excerpt. Original letter in APUG 567 135r-136v.

14. Dal Pozzo, Cassiano. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 28 November 1647, Montpellier, Ecole de Médicine.Call Number: H270 f. 295rvNotes: Cit. Anna Nicolo, Il Carteggio di Cassiano dal Pozzo: Catalogo, Florence: Olschki, 1991, p. 8

15. Friedrich III, duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 1 August 1655, Published in J.P. von Ludewig "Reliquiae manuscriptorum omnis aevi diplomatum..., Frankfurt 1720-1741, V. pp. 391-392. Call Number: BL 182.a.8

16. Gassendi, Pierre. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 2 August 1633, Published in Gassendi, Petri Gassendi Diniensis, Ecclesiae Praepositi, et in Academia Parisiensi Matheseos, Regii Professoris EPISTOLAE, Lugduni: Sumptibus Laurentii Anisson, 1658. Tom. 6, p. 58.

17. ———. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 5 July 1640, Published in Gassendi, Petri Gassendi Diniensis, Ecclesiae Praepositi, et in Academia Parisiensi Matheseos, Regii Professoris EPISTOLAE, Lugduni: Sumptibus Laurentii Anisson, 1658. Tom. 6, pp. 98-99.Notes: An excerpt of this letter was previously published in Athanasius Kircher, Magnes, Rome: Ludovico Grignani, 1641, pp. 481-3. The original ms. seems to have been lost.

18. Grandami, Jacques. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, undated (9 May 1640), Published excerpt in Athanasius Kircher, Magnes, Rome: Ludovico Grignani, 1641, pp. 473-4. Notes: Latin

19. Hevelius, Johan. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 12 March 1650, Paris, Observatoire.Call Number: Obs, C.1.2, f.161rvNotes: Latin, Autograph. Copy of APUG 557 342r343v?

20. ———. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 7 October 1652, Paris, Observatoire.Call Number: Obs., C.1.2, f.318r319r. Notes: Latin, Autograph. Copy of Apug 568, 120r.121v?

21. ———. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, April 1654, Paris, Observatoire.Call Number: Obs., C.1.3, f.422r-423r. Notes: no corresponding copy in APUG.

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22. Kinner, Cyprian. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 20 May 1648, London, British Library.Call Number: BL Sloane ms. 649 ff. 17r-18rNotes: Transcribed by Nick Wilding. Other letters from Kinner to Hartlib and others in same vol. Answer to Kircher - Kinner 7 Nov. 1648 (check dates) publ. in Dülmen. There is another copy of this letter in the Hartlib papers, 1/33/36A

23. Leopold Wilhelm, Archduke of Austria. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 3 April 1660, Published on third page of Kircher's Polygraphia Universalis.

24. Marci of Kronland, Jan Marcus. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 19 August 1666, Yale University Library, Beinicke Rare Book Room.Call Number: Beinicke Rare Book Room ms. 408Notes: Bound with Voynich manuscript

25. Martini, Martino. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 1638, Published excerpt in Athanasius Kircher, Magnes, Rome: Ludovico Grignani, 1641, pp. 433-435.

26. ———. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, undated (6 February 1639), Published excerpt in Athanasius Kircher, Magnes, Rome: Ludovico Grignani, 1641, pp. 436.

27. Maurus, Petrus. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, Published in Athanasius Kircher, Magnes, Rome: Ludovico Grignani, 1641, pp. 502-503.Notes: Copy used BAV Barberini M.III.33. No corresponding letter appears to be in APUG.

28. Mersenne, Marin. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, undated, Published excerpt in Athanasius Kircher, Magnes, Rome: Ludovico Grignani, 1641, pp. 473. Notes: Latin

29. Nardi, Giovanni. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 13 February 1651, Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 348-9 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: The date does not appear to correspond to any of the letters from Nardi conserved in APUG

30. Nicusio, Panaioti. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 15 June 1654, Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), pp. 305-6 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Italian

31. Reniger, Simon. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 15 June 1654, Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), pp. 304-5 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).

32. Scheiner, Christoph. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 16 July 1633, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN FF 9538 car. 227tNotes: See excerpt in Galileo "Opere" XV p.184

33. Severino, Marco Aurelio. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 1 October 1649, Rome, Biblioteca Lancisiana.Call Number: 66 (LXXIV-3-12) f. 240rvNotes: Minutes. From Kristeller. See also Pietro de Angelis, Giovanni Maria Lancisi. La Biblioteca Lancisiana, L'Accademia Lancisiana, Rome, 1965, p. 153 and V. Ducceschi, "L'Epistolario di Marco Aurelio Severino (1580-1656)", Rivista di storia delle scienze mediche e naturali III, 14, 1923, pp. 213-223.

34. ———. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 12 December 1652, Rome, Biblioteca Lancisiana.Call Number: 66 (LXXIV-3-12) f. 241r-242rNotes: Minutes. From Kristeller. See also Pietro de Angelis, Giovanni Maria Lancisi. La Biblioteca Lancisiana, L'Accademia Lancisiana, Rome, 1965, p. 153 and V. Ducceschi, "L'Epistolario di Marco Aurelio Severino (1580-1656)", Rivista di storia delle scienze mediche e naturali III, 14, 1923, pp. 213-223.

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35. Viviani, Vincenzo. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale.Call Number: BNCF Ms. Gal. 157, f.118Notes: Italian

Kuhlmann, Quirinus

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Kuhlmann, Quirinus, 8 February 1674, Published in Q. Kuhlmann, Epistola de arte magna sciendi sive combinatoria, [Amsterdam?], 1674, Epistolae duae, Leyden, 1674 and 1675, AZ! Kircheriana de arte magna sciendi sive combinatoria, London, 1681. Responsoria, London 1681.Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 158.

2. ———. Letter to Kuhlmann, Quirinus, 8 February 1674, Published in Q. Kuhlmann, Epistolae duae, Leyden, 1674 and 1675, AZ! Kircheriana de arte magna sciendi sive combinatoria, London, 1681. Responsoria, London 1681.Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 158.

La Mare, Philibert de

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to La Mare, Philibert de, 2 March 1654, Dijon, Bibliothèque Municipale.Call Number: Ms. 844Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 154

Landucci, Ambrosio, Bishop

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Landucci, Ambrosio Bishop, undated (c, 1663), Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale.Call Number: BNCF Aut. Pal. IV 49-51Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 154

Langenmantel, Hieronymus Ambrosius

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Langenmantel, Hieronymus Ambrosius, 18 February 1660, Published in Langenmantel, Hieronymo Ambrosio (ed ). Fasciculus Epistolarum Adm. R. P. Athanasii Kircheri Soc. Jesu, Viri in Mathematicis et Variorum Idiomatum Scientiis Celebratissimi, Complectentium Materias PhilosophicoMathematicoMedicas; Exartatae sunt Ad Nobilies, Eruditos atque Excellentissimos Viros, D.D. Lucas Schrökios, Seniorem & Juniorem. D. Hieronymum Velschium, Trigam Illustrem Medicorum, D. Ankelium, Theophilum Spizelium, & ad Autorem ipsum. Nunc primò in publiam lucem prodiére Accurante A. R. D. Hieronymo Ambrosio Langenmantelio, Patr. Aug. & Can. Insig. respectivè Eccles. S. Mauritii & S. Petri. Augusta Vindelicorus: Typis Utzschneiderianis; M.DC.LXXXIV.Call Number: BL 1165.b.15. Notes: 25 letters.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 23 June 1670, Göttingen, Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek.Call Number: Cod. Philos. 138 m. VI.56Notes: Published in Leibniz, Philosophischer Briefwechsel herausgeben von der Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR, Erster Band, 1663-1685. Akademie-Verlag Berlin, 1987. pp. 48-49

Leopold Ignaz, Archduke of Austria

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Leopold Ignaz, Archduke of Austria, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 257 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedication of Syntagma IV. Obeliscus Sallustius, sive Ludovisius.

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1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Leopold Wilhelm, Archduke of Austria, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 79 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedication of Syntagma I. Mensa Isiaca, sive Tabula Bembina.

2. ———. Letter to Leopold Wilhelm, Archduke of Austria, undated, Published in P. Lambeck, Commentariorum de augustissima Bibliotheca Caesarea Vindobonensi liber primus, Vienna, 1665, I, 90-91. Hannover, 1712, I, 90-91.Notes: From Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 158.

Lippay, Georg

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Lippay, Georg, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus II Pars Altera (1653), p. 279 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedicatory letter for Classis VIII. Mechanica sive architectonica.

Lubienietzki, Stanislas

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Lubienietzki, Stanislas, 8 May 1665, Published in S. Lubienietzki, Theatrum cometicum, Amsterdam, 1668, 1666, I 750-761.Notes: From Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 158.

2. ———. Letter to Lubienietzki, Stanislas, 25 July 1665, Published in S. Lubienietzki, Theatrum cometicum, Amsterdam, 1668, 1666, I 754-755, J.E. Olhoff, Excerpta, p. 107.Notes: From Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 158.

Maffei, Raffaello

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Maffei, Raffaello, 26 November 1661, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Autografi Ferrajoli. Raccolta prima, VI, f. 187rv

2. ———. Letter to Maffei, Raffaello, 24 February 1662, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Autografi Ferrajoli. Raccolta prima, VI, f. 185r-186vNotes: Cit. Findlen, Scientific spectacle ...Italian, Autograph. Consulted 22.6.1999

3. ———. Letter to Maffei, Raffaello, 12 April 1662, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Autografi Ferrajoli. Raccolta prima, VI, f. 182r-183vNotes: Italian, Autograph. Cit. Findlen, Scientific spectacle .... Consulted 22.6.1999

4. ———. Letter to Maffei, Raffaello, 27 July 1664, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Autografi Ferrajoli. Raccolta prima, VI, f. 184rNotes: Italian, Autograph. Consulted 22.6.1999

Medici, Giancarlo de'

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Medici, Giancarlo de', n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 347 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Latin. Dedicatory letter for Syntagma X. OBELISCUS FLORENTINUS

Medici, Giovanni Carlo de'

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Medici, Giovanni Carlo de', 16 April 1661, Florence, Archivio di Stato.Call Number: ASF Med, 5338, f.1

Medici, Leopoldo de'

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Medici, Leopoldo de', 29 January 1650, Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale.

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Call Number: BNCF: Ms. Gal. 275 f.23Notes: Consulted 2/5/1995. Check also Mirto, Alfonso. Le lettere di Athanasius Kircher della Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Firenze. Atti Mem. Accad. Toscana Sci. Lett. Colombaria. 1989; Vol. 54(n. s. 40): pp. 129-165 for this and other letters in Florence

2. ———. Letter to Medici, Leopoldo de', 31 May 1655, Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale.Call Number: BNCF Aut. Pal. II. 70Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 154. Copy in Aut. Pal. IV. 40

3. ———. Letter to Medici, Leopoldo de', 21 June 1663, Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale.Call Number: BNCF Ms. Gal. 276, f.201Notes: Printed in Mirto, pp.142-3

4. ———. Letter to Medici, Leopoldo de', 3 December 1667, Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale.Call Number: BNCF Ms. Gal. 278 ff.103r-vNotes: Consulted 4/5/1995. See transcription in Kircher file. There is a copy (sketch) of this letter in APUG 564 f. 138r

5. ———. Letter to Medici, Matthias de' and Medici, Leopoldo de', n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), pp. 317 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Latin. Dedicatory letter for Syntagma VII. Obelisci Minores et sunt Monticaelius, Mediceus, Mahutaeus.

Medici, Matthias de'

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Medici, Matthias de' and Medici, Leopoldo de', n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), pp. 317 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Latin. Dedicatory letter for Syntagma VII. Obelisci Minores et sunt Monticaelius, Mediceus, Mahutaeus.

Mersenne, Marin

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Mersenne, Marin, 10 March 1648, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN NAF 6204, f. 105Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 154

Monrad, Johan

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Monrad, Johan, 12 February 1675, Leipzig, Karl-Marx-Universitätsbibliothek.Call Number: Rep. IV. 47Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 154. Copy in Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Hamburg

2. ———. Letter to Monrad, Johan, 12 February 1675, Published in C.E. Jordan, Recueil de literature, de philosophie et d'histoire, Amsterdam, 1730, pp. 141-143. C. Giessing, Nye samling af danske, norske og islandske iubel-laere, Copenhagen, 1779-1786, III i 224.Notes: From Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 158.

Moretus, Theodorus

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Moretus, Theodorus, 12 March 1634, Prague, National Library at the Clementinum.Call Number: VI B 12b f. 73rvNotes: Consulted 10 August 2000


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Nádasdy, Ferenc von

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Nádasdy, Ferenc von, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 530 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedicatory letter for Syntagma XX. De Lucernis Veterem Aegyptiorum.

Nicaise, Claude?

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Nicaise, Claude, 14 March 1676, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Autografi Ferrajoli. Raccolta prima, VI, f. 188rvNotes: Latin, autograph. Ref. from Paolo Vian, ed., La "Raccolta Prima" degli Autografi Ferrajoli, Introduzione, inventario e indice, Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1990. Consulted 22.6.1999

Nihus, Barthold

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Nihus, Barthold, 9 November 1647, Published in L. Allacci, [Greek] sive opusculorum graecorum et latinorum vetustiorum ac recentiorum libri duo, ed. B. Nihus, Cologne, 1653, I 237-238. Venice 1733, I 51-52.Notes: From Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 158.

2. ———. Letter to Nihus, Barthold, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 518 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedicatory letter for Syntagma XIX. De Amuletis, & Periaptis, coeterisque portatilibus Icunculis, quibus Aegyptij utebantur.

Oliva, Giovanni Paolo

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Oliva, Giovanni Paolo, 5 May 1672, Rome, Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu.Call Number: ARSI Rom. 38 ff. 172-189? [Wrong]Notes: Published in R. Garrucci "Origini"

Paullini, Christian Franz

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Paullini, Christian Franz, 4 February 1679, Published in C.F. Paullini, Disquisitio curiosa an mors naturalis plerumque sit substantia verminosa, Frankfurt, 1703, pp. 181-182.Notes: From Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 158.

2. ———. Letter to Paullini, Christian Franz, undated (c. 1675), Published in C.F. Paullini, Cynographia curiosa seu canis descriptio, Nuremberg, 1685. Prefatory material, no. 1 of "Vota et censurae aliorum excellentium virorum".Notes: From Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 158.

Peiresc, Nicholas Claude Fabri de

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Peiresc, Nicholas Claude Fabri de, 14 November 1633, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN FF 9538 ff. 230r-232v Notes: Autograph, Latin, damaged, sometimes illegible.

2. ———. Letter to Peiresc, Nicholas Claude Fabri de, 8 February 1635, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN FF 9362 ff. 13-16Notes: Copy of BN NAF 5173 ff. 25r-27v

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3. ———. Letter to Peiresc, Nicholas Claude Fabri de, 8 February 1635, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN NAF 5173 ff. 25r-27v. Notes: Autograph, Latin. Copy at BN FF 9362, ff.13r-16r

4. ———. Letter to Peiresc, Nicholas Claude Fabri de, 3 December 1636, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN FF 9538 f. 236r-238v Notes: Autograph, Latin & Arabic.

5. ———. Letter to Peiresc, Nicholas Claude Fabri de, 22 December 1636, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN FF 9538 f.239rv Notes: Latin, Autograph

6. ———. Letter to Peiresc, Nicholas Claude Fabri de, 7 January 1637, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN FF 9538 f.240rvNotes: Latin, Autograph

7. Kircher, Athanasius, and Christoph Scheiner. Letter to Peiresc, Nicholas Claude Fabri de, 1 December 1633, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN FF 9538 f.234r-vNotes: Consulted 23/6/1995. Microfilm (illegible): 5016

Pereisc, Nicholas Claude Fabri de

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Pereisc, Nicholas Claude Fabri de, 9 August 1633, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN FF 9538 f. 227r-228vNotes: Consulted BN 22/6/1995 (microfilm)

Rapaccioli, Francesco Angelo

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Rapaccioli, Francesco Angelo, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 367 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedicatory letter for Syntagma XI. Obelisci Rasi qui sunt Exquilinus,et Vaticanus.

Redi, Francesco

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Redi, Francesco, 27 October 1668, Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurentiana.Call Number: Laur. Redi 224 f. 215Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 155.

2. ———. Letter to Redi, Francesco, 12 December 1671?, Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurentiana.Call Number: Laur. Redi 224 f. 216Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 155. Check date

3. ———. Letter to Redi, Francesco, 29 June 1675?, Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurentiana.Call Number: Laur. Redi 203 f. 289Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 155. Check date

Rhodius, Johann

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Rhodius, Johann, 16 June 1642, Published in T. Bartholinus, De armillis veterum schedion. Accessit O. Wormii de Aureo Cornu Danico ad Licetum responsio, Amsterdam, 1676, II, 29-31.Notes: From Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 159.

2. ———. Letter to Rhodius, Johann, 27 August 1650, Published in Fortuno Liceti, De lucernis antiquorum reconditis libri quatuor, Utini, 1652, VI. 1252-1254.Notes: From Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 159.

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Sachs von Löwenheim, Philipp Jakob

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Sachs von Löwenheim, Philipp Jakob, 6 February 1672, Published in J.D. Major, Memoria Sachsiana, Leipzig, 1675, pp. 39-40.Notes: From Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 159.

Saint-Andiol, Gaspard de Varadier de

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Saint-Andiol, Gaspard de Varadier de, 9 November 1676, Published in G. de Varadier de Saint-Andiol, Juvenilia, Arles, 1679, pp. 349-350.Notes: From Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 159.

2. ———. Letter to Saint-Andiol, Gaspard de Varadier de, 7 December 1676, Published in G. de Varadier de Saint-Andiol, Juvenilia, Arles, 1679, pp. 351-353.Notes: From Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 159.

3. ———. Letter to Saint-Andiol, Gaspard de Varadier de, undated (after February 1677), Published in G. de Varadier de Saint-Andiol, Juvenilia, Arles, 1679, pp. 354-355.Notes: From Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 159.

Schenk, Joseph Theodor

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Schenk, Joseph Theodor, undated (c. 1668), Published in J.F. Heckel, Manipulus primus epistolarum singularium, Plauen, 1695, pp. 115-116.Notes: From Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 159.

Schönborn, Johann Philipp von

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Schönborn, Johann Philipp von, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus II Pars Altera (1653), p. 345 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedicatory letter for Classis IX. Iatrica, sive Medicina Hieroglyphica.

Schott, Gaspar

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Schott, Gaspar, 22 March 1654, Published in Schott, Gaspar. Mechanica hydraulico-pneumatica.. Würzburg; 1657, pp. 312-313.

2. ———. Letter to Schott, Gaspar, 26 February 1656, Published in Schott, Gaspar. Mechanica hydraulico-pneumatica.. Würzburg; 1657, pp. 452-3.

3. ———. Letter to Schott, Gaspar, 25 March 1656, Published in Schott, Pantometrum Kircherianum, Wuerzburg, 1660, Preface.

4. ———. Letter to Schott, Gaspar, 16 December 1662, Published in Schott, Technica curiosa sive mirabilia artis, Nuremberg, 1664, p. 481.



7. ———. Letter to Schott, Gaspar, 21 February 1665, Published in S. Lubienietzki, Theatrum cometicum, Amsterdam, 1668, 1666, I 764-765.Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ...., p. 159

Schroeck, Lukas, the Elder

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1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Schroeck, Lukas the Elder, June 1668, Published in Langenmantel, Hieronymo Ambrosio (ed ). Fasciculus Epistolarum Adm. R. P. Athanasii Kircheri Soc. Jesu, Viri in Mathematicis et Variorum Idiomatum Scientiis Celebratissimi, Complectentium Materias PhilosophicoMathematicoMedicas; Exartatae sunt Ad Nobilies, Eruditos atque Excellentissimos Viros, D.D. Lucas Schrökios, Seniorem & Juniorem. D. Hieronymum Velschium, Trigam Illustrem Medicorum, D. Ankelium, Theophilum Spizelium, & ad Autorem ipsum. Nunc primò in publiam lucem prodiére Accurante A. R. D. Hieronymo Ambrosio Langenmantelio, Patr. Aug. & Can. Insig. respectivè Eccles. S. Mauritii & S. Petri. Augusta Vindelicorus: Typis Utzschneiderianis; M.DC.LXXXIV, pp. 4-6.Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 159

Schroeck, Lukas, the Younger

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Schroeck, Lukas the Younger, 8 November 1670, Published in Langenmantel, Hieronymo Ambrosio (ed ). Fasciculus Epistolarum Adm. R. P. Athanasii Kircheri Soc. Jesu, Viri in Mathematicis et Variorum Idiomatum Scientiis Celebratissimi, Complectentium Materias PhilosophicoMathematicoMedicas; Exartatae sunt Ad Nobilies, Eruditos atque Excellentissimos Viros, D.D. Lucas Schrökios, Seniorem & Juniorem. D. Hieronymum Velschium, Trigam Illustrem Medicorum, D. Ankelium, Theophilum Spizelium, & ad Autorem ipsum. Nunc primò in publiam lucem prodiére Accurante A. R. D. Hieronymo Ambrosio Langenmantelio, Patr. Aug. & Can. Insig. respectivè Eccles. S. Mauritii & S. Petri. Augusta Vindelicorus: Typis Utzschneiderianis; M.DC.LXXXIV, pp. 7-25.Notes: Ten letters. Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 159

Segni, Alessandro

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 20 January 1677, London, British Library.Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 2rNotes: Italian. BL Add 22,804: numbered by letter rather than folio. Title: Lettere XVII Italiane scritte ad Alessandro Segni ed una di Elio Loreti al sudetto. 4to. 1677 & 1678 on paper.

2. ———. Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 30 January 1677, London, British Library.Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 3rNotes: Italian





7. ———. Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 1 May 1677, London, British Library.Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 9rNotes: Italian


9. ———. Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 25 June 1677, London, British Library.Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 11r

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Notes: Italian

10. ———. Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 17 July 1677, London, British Library.Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 12rNotes: Italian

11. ———. Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 21 August 1677, London, British Library.Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 13rNotes: Italian

12. ———. Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 14 September 1677, London, British Library.Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 14rNotes: Italian, poor hand.


14. ———. Letter to Segni, Alessandro, undated, London, British Library.Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 17rNotes: Italian

15. ———. Letter to Segni, Alessandro, undated (late December 1677?), London, British Library.Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 15rNotes: Italian, poor hand.

16. Kircher, Athanasius, and Elio Loreto. Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 17 April 1678, London, British Library.Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 18rNotes: Italian

Severino, Marco Aurelio

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Severino, Marco Aurelio, 17 November 1649, Rome, Biblioteca Lancisiana.Call Number: 13 (LXXIV-1-13), f. 339Notes: Autograph, Latin and Greek. From Kristeller. See also Pietro de Angelis, Giovanni Maria Lancisi. La Biblioteca Lancisiana, L'Accademia Lancisiana, Rome, 1965, p. 151

2. ———. Letter to Severino, Marco Aurelio, 24 November 1652, Rome, Biblioteca Lancisiana.Call Number: 11 (LXXIV-1-11) f. 47rNotes: Autograph, Italian. From Kristeller. See also Pietro de Angelis, Giovanni Maria Lancisi. La Biblioteca Lancisiana, L'Accademia Lancisiana, Rome, 1965, p. 151. Consulted 28 June 1999.

3. ———. Letter to Severino, Marco Aurelio, 6 June 1654, Rome, Biblioteca Lancisiana.Call Number: 11 (LXXIV-1-11) f. 48rNotes: Autograph, Italian. From Kristeller. See also Pietro de Angelis, Giovanni Maria Lancisi. La Biblioteca Lancisiana, L'Accademia Lancisiana, Rome, 1965, p. 151. Consulted 28 June 1999.

Siffredy, Barthomolmé


Spada, Bernardino

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Spada, Bernardino, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III

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(1654), p. 453 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Dedicatory letter for Syntagma XV. De Sphyngibus Niloticis.

Spizel, Gottlieb

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Spizel, Gottlieb, 11 July 1671, Augsburg, Staats- und Stadtbibliothek.Call Number: 2o Cod. Aug. 408 fol. 171-172Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 155.

2. ———. Letter to Spizel, Gottlieb, undated (after 1671), Published in Langenmantel, Hieronymo Ambrosio (ed ). Fasciculus Epistolarum Adm. R. P. Athanasii Kircheri Soc. Jesu, Viri in Mathematicis et Variorum Idiomatum Scientiis Celebratissimi, Complectentium Materias PhilosophicoMathematicoMedicas; Exartatae sunt Ad Nobilies, Eruditos atque Excellentissimos Viros, D.D. Lucas Schrökios, Seniorem & Juniorem. D. Hieronymum Velschium, Trigam Illustrem Medicorum, D. Ankelium, Theophilum Spizelium, & ad Autorem ipsum. Nunc primò in publiam lucem prodiére Accurante A. R. D. Hieronymo Ambrosio Langenmantelio, Patr. Aug. & Can. Insig. respectivè Eccles. S. Mauritii & S. Petri. Augusta Vindelicorus: Typis Utzschneiderianis; M.DC.LXXXIV, pp. 6-7. Notes: Langenmantel prints this letter again at pp. 91-92, giving as the recipient Georg Hieronymus Welsch and the date 17 February 1660. Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 159

Suarés, Joseph-Marie

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Suarés, Joseph-Marie, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 Tom. (in 4 vols.), Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654, Tomus III (1654), p. 338 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91).Notes: Latin. Dedicatory letter for Syntagma IX. Obeliscus Alexandrinus.

Suáres, Joseph Marie

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Suáres, Joseph Marie, 6 December 1673, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Vat. Lat. 9064 f. 87rNotes: Autograph, Latin. Consulted 22.6.1999

2. ———. Letter to Suáres, Joseph Marie, undated, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Vat. Lat. 9064 f. 88r-92r.Notes: Last lines and signature of letter autograph. Latin, Greek, Turkish, Hebrew. Consulted 22.6.1999

3. Kircher, Athanasius, and unidentified hand. Letter to Suáres, Joseph Marie, 1672, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Vat. Lat. 9064 f. 84r-85vNotes: Autograph, Latin. Consulted 22.6.1999

to be checked

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to to be checked, 1640, Washington D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Dibner Library.Call Number: ms. 783 A.Notes: Latin, from Kristeller, Iter Italicum. See Manuscripts of the Dibner collection in the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Washington D.C., 1985, p. 5, no. 60

2. ———. Letter to to be checked, 1654, Copenhagen, Rigsarkivet, Tyske Kancellis Udenrigs-Afdeling, almindelig del, 3: Diverse sager vedrørende hele tiden til 1770, nr. 56-59. Breve fra udenlandske universitetre og "Laerde maend" ca. 1530-1690.Call Number: 14/1 etc.Notes: Cited in Kristeller, Iter Italicum. Many of the letters published in Andreas Schumacher, Gelehrter Maenner Briefe an die Koenige von Daenemark, vom Jahre 1522 bis 1663, 3 parts, Copenhagen and Leipzig, 1758-59.

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3. ———. Letter to to be checked, 1662, Siena, Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati.Call Number: Autografi Porri, busta 5, no. 86Notes: Cited in Kristeller, Iter italicum.

4. ———. Letter to to be checked, to be checked, Forlì, Biblioteca Comunale.Call Number: Autografi Piancastelli, 1214Notes: 2 letters, cited in Kristeller, Iter italicum

5. ———. Letter to to be checked, to be checked, Siena, Biblioteca Comunale.Call Number: K XI 53Notes: Includes letters from Kircher. Cited in Kristeller, Iter italicum.

6. ———. Letter to to be checked, to be checked, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN NAF 20952 f. 167Notes: Cited in Kristeller, Iter italicum

7. ———. Letter to to be checked, to be checked, Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz.Call Number: Depot Breslau 17Notes: From Kristeller, Iter italicum

8. ———. Letter to to be checked, to be checked, Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz.Call Number: Autographensammlung Darmstaedter, exact shelf mark to be checkedNotes: From Kristeller, Iter italicum

9. ———. Letter to to be checked, to be checked, Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Supellex Epistolica.Call Number: Sup. ep. 4; 13; 26Notes: 3 letters. From Kristeller, Iter italicum

10. ———. Letter to to be checked, to be checked, Florence, Archivio di Stato.Call Number: Archivio Mediceo del PrincipatoNotes: Cited in Kristeller, Iter, V, p. 546a.

11. ———. Letter to to be checked, to be checked, Prague, Strahov monastery.Call Number: to be checkedNotes: Information provided by Rene Zandbergen

Tylkowski, Alberty

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Tylkowski, Alberty, 23 November 1672, Published in A Tylkowski, Philosophia curiosa seu universa Aristotelis philosophia, Prague, 1680, Preface.Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 160

unknown

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to unknown, 9 May 1666, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.Call Number: BAV Vat. Lat. 9064 f. 83rNotes: Autograph, Italian. Consulted 22.6.1999

2. ———. Letter to unknown, 30 May 1672, Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek - Carl von Ossietzky.Call Number: to be checkedNotes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 156.

3. ———. Letter to unknown, 17 September 1673, Edinburgh, University Library.Call Number: La II 653/42Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 155.

4. ———. Letter to unknown, 15 June 1675, Göttingen, Niedersächsische Staats- und 67

Universitätsbibliothek.Call Number: Cod. Philos. 138 m. II 31Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 156.

5. ———. Letter to unknown, 31 December 1678, Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum.Call Number: Kircher, A. 1678Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 155.

6. ———. Letter to unknown, undated, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.Call Number: BN NAL 1520, f.47r. Notes: Autograph, Latin, damaged.

unknown (Leopoldo de' Medici?)

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to unknown (Leopoldo de' Medici), March 1641-31 October 1641, Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale.Call Number: BNCF, Aut. Pal. IV, 41-53Notes: Sixteen letters. Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 156.

Vegelin van Claesbergen, Philip Ernst

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Vegelin van Claesbergen, Philip Ernst, September 1671, Leeuwarden, Rijksarchief in Friesland.Call Number: Archives of "Familie Vegelin van Claerbergen" no. 67Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 155.

Viviani, Vincenzo

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Viviani, Vincenzo, 16 April 1661, Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale.Call Number: BNCF Ms. Gal. 161, f.312

Voit von Salzburg, Melchior Otto, Prince bishop

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Voit von Salzburg, Melchior Otto Prince bishop, 2 May 1646, Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek.Call Number: Mss. misc. 70/20d

Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 155.

Wiegand, Melchior

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Wiegand, Melchior, 7 December 1664, Fulda, Hessische Landesbibliothek.Call Number: Ser. B. VIII.8Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 155.

2. ———. Letter to Wiegand, Melchior, 7 December 1664, Published in N. Seng, transl., Selbstbiographie des P. Athanasius Kircher, Fulda, 1901, pp. 67-68.Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 160

Witzel, Konrad

1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Witzel, Konrad, January 1664-31 January 1664, Geisa (Rhön), Pfarrarchiv.Call Number: to be checkedNotes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 155.

2. ———. Letter to Witzel, Konrad, 7 May 1665, Geisa (Rhön), Pfarrarchiv.Call Number: to be checkedNotes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 155.

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