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 Lelkova Updated: 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. 171-172 Notes: 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, ffentliche Bibliothek der Universitt 1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Buxtorf, Johann, 6 January 1638, Basel, ffentliche Bibliothek der Universitt. Call Number: to be checked Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 153 . Letter to Buxtorf, Johann, 2 January 1639, Basel, ffentliche Bibliothek der Universitt. Call Number: to be checked Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 153 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 17 October 1661, Basel, ffentliche Bibliothek der Universitt. Call Number: to be checked Notes: Published in H. A. Langenmantel, Fasciculus, pp. 26-30. Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 22 July 1662, Basel, ffentliche Bibliothek der Universitt. Call Number: to be checked Notes: 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

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Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preuischer Kulturbesitz, Darmstaedter Dokumentensammlung 1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Hevelius, Johann, 22 February 1653, Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preuischer Kulturbesitz, Darmstaedter Dokumentensammlung. Call Number: F. 2.c 1646 (1) Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 154 . Letter to Hevelius, Johann, 30 January 1655, Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preuischer 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

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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 17 Notes: 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 checked Notes: From Kristeller, Iter italicum

Carpentras, Bibliothque de Carpentras 1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Ferrand, Jean, 4 June 1633, Carpentras, Bibliothque de Carpentras. Call Number: Mss. de Peiresc, II. f. 402 Notes: 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . Letter to Gonzaga, Ferdinando Giovanni di, 30 October 1660, Castiglione, Archivio di Castiglione delle Stiviere. Call Number: Busta 241, cartella XLIII, no. 6, 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 . 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 . Letter to Gonzaga, Ferdinando Giovanni di, 12 September 1664, Castiglione, Archivio di Castiglione delle Stiviere. 2

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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 . 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 . 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 . 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 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

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

Copenhagen, Rigsarkivet, Tyske Kancellis Udenrigs-Afdeling, almindelig del, 3: Diverse sager vedrrende 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 lrde mnd 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, Rigsarkivet Call Number: Tyske Kancelli, Udenrigske Afdeling, Breve fra udenlandske universiteter og lrde mnd 15303

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]. 3. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Danish king Christian V, 6 June 1675, Copenhagen, Rigsarkivet Call Number: Tyske Kancelli, Udenrigske Afdeling, Breve fra udenlandske universiteter og lrde mnd 15301770, 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, Bibliothque Municipale 1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Angles, Bernard d', 2 March 1654, Dijon, Bibliothque Municipale. Call Number: Bibliothque Municipale ms. 844 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to La Mare, Philibert de, 2 March 1654, Dijon, Bibliothque Municipale. Call Number: Ms. 844 Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 154

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Dresden, Staatsarchiv, Geheimarchiv, Handschriften 1. 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 June1663 Call 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 653/42 Notes: 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.4 Notes: autograph, Italian Kircher 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. . Letter to Ferdinando II dei Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 8 November 1659, Florence, Archivio di Stato. Call Number: Mediceo del Principato, 1026, f.149 Notes: autograph, Italian . 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.150 Notes: 15th November, 1659, Rome autograph signature la Cassetta del Artifizio delle lingue 4

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letter referred to in the postscript to APUG 556, 63r-64v (18th November, 1659), from Ferdinando II to Kircher. 4. 5. . Letter to Medici, Giovanni Carlo de', 16 April 1661, Florence, Archivio di Stato. Call Number: ASF Med, 5338, f.1 . 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.515 Notes: autograph signature misplaced in volume as 21st June, 1664. Polygraphia Reply 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. . Letter to Ferdinando II dei Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 7 July 1666, Florence, Archivio di Stato. Call Number: ASF Med, 1026, f.677 Notes: not autograph Mirto, 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. . Letter to Ferdinando II dei Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 10 February 1672, Florence, Archivio di Stato. Call Number: ASF Med, 3940, f.4 Notes: is this the right recipient? When does Ferdinando II die?? . Letter to Cosimo III dei Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 29 November 1675, Florence, Archivio di Stato. Call Number: ASF Med. 1114, f.8 . Letter to Cosimo III dei Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 20 December 1675, Florence, Archivio di Stato. Call Number: ASF Med 3942 f.1 . Letter to Cosimo III dei Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 30 October 1678, Florence, Archivio di Stato. Call Number: ASF Med, 1115, f.6 . Letter to to be checked, to be checked, Florence, Archivio di Stato. Call Number: Archivio Mediceo del Principato Notes: Cited in Kristeller, Iter, V, p. 546a.

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Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurentiana 1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Redi, Francesco, 27 October 1668, Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurentiana. Call Number: Laur. Redi 224 f. 215 Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 155. . Letter to Redi, Francesco, 12 December 1671?, Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurentiana. Call Number: Laur. Redi 224 f. 216 Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 155. Check date . Letter to Redi, Francesco, 29 June 1675?, Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurentiana. Call Number: Laur. Redi 203 f. 289 Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 155. Check date 5

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Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale 1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to unknown (Leopoldo de' Medici), March 1641-31 October 1641, Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale. Call Number: BNCF, Aut. Pal. IV, 41-53 Notes: Sixteen letters. Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 156. . Letter to Medici, Leopoldo de', 29 January 1650, Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale. Call Number: BNCF: Ms. Gal. 275 f.23 Notes: 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 . Letter to Medici, Leopoldo de', 31 May 1655, Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale. Call Number: BNCF Aut. Pal. II. 70 Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 154. Copy in Aut. Pal. IV. 40 . Letter to Grand Duke of Tuscany, 15 June 1656, Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale. Call Number: BNCF: Ms. Gal. 275 f.43r Notes: 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 . Letter to Viviani, Vincenzo, 16 April 1661, Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale. Call Number: BNCF Ms. Gal. 161, f.312 . Letter to Medici, Leopoldo de', 21 June 1663, Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale. Call Number: BNCF Ms. Gal. 276, f.201 Notes: Printed in Mirto, pp.142-3 . Letter to Medici, Leopoldo de', 3 December 1667, Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale. Call Number: BNCF Ms. Gal. 278 ff.103r-v Notes: Consulted 4/5/1995. See transcription in Kircher file. There is a copy (sketch) of this letter in APUG 564 f. 138r . Letter to Landucci, Ambrosio Bishop, undated (c, 1663), Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale. Call Number: BNCF Aut. Pal. IV 49-51 Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 154 Viviani, Vincenzo. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale. Call Number: BNCF Ms. Gal. 157, f.118 Notes: Italian

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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. Forl, Biblioteca Comunale 1.Kircher, Athanasius to unknown, 19 June 1644, Forl, 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.8 Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 155. 6

Geisa (Rhn), Pfarrarchiv 1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Witzel, Konrad, January 1664-31 January 1664, Geisa (Rhn), Pfarrarchiv. Call Number: to be checked Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 155. . Letter to Witzel, Konrad, 7 May 1665, Geisa (Rhn), Pfarrarchiv. Call Number: to be checked Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 155.

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Gttingen, Niederschsische Staats- und Universittsbibliothek 1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 23 June 1670, Gttingen, Niederschsische Staats- und Universittsbibliothek. Call Number: Cod. Philos. 138 m. VI.56 Notes: Published in Leibniz, Philosophischer Briefwechsel herausgeben von der Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR, Erster Band, 1663-1685. Akademie-Verlag Berlin, 1987. pp. 48-49 . Letter to unknown, 15 June 1675, Gttingen, Niederschsische Staats- und Universittsbibliothek. Call Number: Cod. Philos. 138 m. II 31 Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 156.

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Hamburg, Staats- und Universittsbibliothek, Supellex Epistolica 1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to unknown, 30 May 1672, Hamburg, Staats- und Universittsbibliothek - Carl von Ossietzky. Call Number: Sup. ep. 4, 47 Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 156. 2. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Johannes Monrath , 12. Februarx1675, Hamburg, Staats- und Universittsbibliothek - Carl von Ossietzky. Call Number: Sup. ep. 26, 234 Notes: Nilfer Krger (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 Universittsbibliothek Hamburg, Bd. VIII, Erster Teilband). Hamburg 1978, here page 484. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Kaspar Schott, 9.April 1660 , Hamburg, Staats- und Universittsbibliothek Carl von Ossietzky. Call Number: Sup. ep. 13,233 Notes: Nilfer Krger (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 Universittsbibliothek Hamburg, Bd. VIII, Erster Teilband). Hamburg 1978, here page 484.

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Hannover, Schloss Harburg 1. Kircher, Athanasius. "Magnes.", Hannover, Schloss Harburg. Call Number: II 3, 4o 64 Notes: This collection may now be in Augsburg, Universittsbibliothek.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, Universittsbibliothek 7

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Kircher, Athanasius. "Vita a Semet Ipso Conscripta.", Innsbruck, Universittsbibliothek. Call Number: ms. 684 Notes: 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 67 Notes: Discussed with illustrations in Dieterle, Reinhard; Fletcher, John; Reiss, Wolfgang Rmer , Christel; Rmer, 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. 67 Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 155.

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

Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Sammlungen des Regierenden Frstem von Liechtenstein 1. Kircher, Athanasius. "Mathematica Curiosa."1645. Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Sammlungen des Regierenden Frstem 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-18r Notes: 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 Dlmen. There is another copy of this letter in the Hartlib papers, 1/33/36A Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Doni, Giovanni Battista, 19 October 1647, London, British Library. Call Number: BL Egerton ms. 22, fol. 40 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 153. A copy in Biblioteca Marucelliana, Florence, Cat. A, 289-290, c. 352 . Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 20 January 1677, London, British Library. Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 2r Notes: 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. . Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 30 January 1677, London, British Library. Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 3r Notes: Italian . Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 6 February 1677, London, British Library. Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 4r 8

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Notes: Italian 6. . Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 13 February 1677, London, British Library. Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 5r Notes: Italian . Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 28 February 1677, London, British Library. Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 6r Notes: Italian . Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 27 March 1677, London, British Library. Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 7r Notes: Italian . Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 1 May 1677, London, British Library. Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 9r Notes: Italian . Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 20 June 1677, London, British Library. Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 10r Notes: Italian . Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 25 June 1677, London, British Library. Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 11r Notes: Italian . Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 17 July 1677, London, British Library. Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 12r Notes: Italian . Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 21 August 1677, London, British Library. Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 13r Notes: Italian . Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 14 September 1677, London, British Library. Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 14r Notes: Italian, poor hand. . Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 27 March 1678, London, British Library. Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 16r Notes: Italian . Letter to Segni, Alessandro, undated, London, British Library. Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 17r Notes: Italian . Letter to Segni, Alessandro, undated (late December 1677?), London, British Library. Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 15r Notes: Italian, poor hand. Kircher, Athanasius, and Elio Loreto. Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 17 April 1678, London, British Library. Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 18r Notes: Italian

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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. 855 Notes: Cited in Kristeller, Iter italicum

Montpellier, Ecole de Mdicine 1. Dal Pozzo, Cassiano. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 28 November 1647, Montpellier, Ecole de Mdicine. Call Number: H270 f. 295rv Notes: Cit. Anna Nicolo, Il Carteggio di Cassiano dal Pozzo: Catalogo, Florence: Olschki, 1991, p. 8 Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Dal Pozzo, Cassiano, 15 August 1637, Montpellier, Ecole de Mdicine. Call Number: H268 f. 9rv Notes: Cit. Anna Nicolo, Il Carteggio di Cassiano dal Pozzo: Catalogo, Florence: Olschki, 1991, p. 3 . Letter to Dal Pozzo, Cassiano, 18 September 1647, Montpellier, Ecole de Mdicine. Call Number: H270 fol. 291 Notes: 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 . Letter to Dal Pozzo, Cassiano, 27 November 1647, Montpellier, Ecole de Mdicine. Call Number: H270 ff. 292r-293v Notes: Cit. Anna Nicolo, Il Carteggio di Cassiano dal Pozzo: Catalogo, Florence: Olschki, 1991, p. 8

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Munich, Bayerische Staats- und Universittsbibliothek 1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Gronovius, Johann Friedrich, 2 November 1652, Munich, Bayerische Staatsund Universittsbibliothek. Call Number: Ms. 617, fol. 100r-100v Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 153 . Letter to Almichoven, Theodor, 2 September 1678, Munich, Bayerische Staats- und Universittsbibliothek. Call Number: Collectio Camerariana Cod. lat. 10383/134 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Beziehungen, p. 152 . "Vita a Semet Ipso Conscripta.", Munich, Bayerische Staats- und Universittsbibliothek. Call Number: Cod. Lat. 8295 folio numbers to be checked Notes: Cited in Fletcher, AK und ..., who states that this is a seventeenth century copy

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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 49 Notes: Cited in Kristeller, Iter italicum 10

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

Paris, Bibliothque Nationale 1. 2. Charpentier, Franois. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 15 October 1648, Paris, Bibliothque Nationale. Call Number: BN NAF 6262, f.30rv Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Ferrand, Jean, 4 June 1633, Paris, Bibliothque Nationale. Call Number: BN FF 9362 f.16rv Notes: Note: Copy, Latin. See Fletcher 'Kircher & Peiresc' . Letter to Gassendi, Pierre, 10 July 1633, Paris, Bibliothque 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 . Letter to Pereisc, Nicholas Claude Fabri de, 9 August 1633, Paris, Bibliothque Nationale. Call Number: BN FF 9538 f. 227r-228v (6. September 1633? Findlen 2004, p. 146) Notes: Consulted BN 22/6/1995 (microfilm) . Letter to Peiresc, Nicholas Claude Fabri de, 14 November 1633, Paris, Bibliothque Nationale. Call Number: BN FF 9538 ff. 230r-232v Notes: Autograph, Latin, damaged, sometimes illegible. . Letter to Gassendi, Pierre, 23 September 1634, Paris, Bibliothque Nationale. Call Number: BN NAL 1637 ff. 57r - 58v 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. 426-7. . Letter to Peiresc, Nicholas Claude Fabri de, 8 February 1635, Paris, Bibliothque Nationale. Call Number: BN FF 9362 ff. 13-16 Notes: Copy of BN NAF 5173 ff. 25r-27v . Letter to Peiresc, Nicholas Claude Fabri de, 8 February 1635, Paris, Bibliothque Nationale. Call Number: BN NAF 5173 ff. 25r-27v. Notes: Autograph, Latin. Copy at BN FF 9362, ff.13r-16r . Letter to Peiresc, Nicholas Claude Fabri de, 3 December 1636, Paris, Bibliothque Nationale. Call Number: BN FF 9538 f. 236r-238v Notes: Autograph, Latin & Arabic. . Letter to Peiresc, Nicholas Claude Fabri de, 22 December 1636, Paris, Bibliothque Nationale. Call Number: BN FF 9538 f.239rv Notes: Latin, Autograph . Letter to Peiresc, Nicholas Claude Fabri de, 7 January 1637, Paris, Bibliothque Nationale. Call Number: BN FF 9538 f.240rv Notes: Latin, Autograph . Letter to Gassendi, Pierre, 2 July 1639, Paris, Bibliothque Nationale. Call Number: BN NAL 1637, ff. 109r-110v 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. 436-7. 11

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. Letter to Gassendi, Pierre, 13 February 1642, Paris, Bibliothque 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 . Letter to Mersenne, Marin, 10 March 1648, Paris, Bibliothque Nationale. Call Number: BN NAF 6204, f. 105 Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 154 . Letter to Hevelius, Johann, 20 June 1649, Paris, Bibliothque Nationale. Call Number: BN NAL 1635 f.109 Notes: Autograph, Latin . Letter to Billy, Jacques de, 21 February 1660, Paris, Bibliothque Nationale. Call Number: BN Lat. 8600, f.29r 30v. Notes: Autograph, Latin. . Letter to Hevelius, Johann, 8 May 1665, Paris, Bibliothque Nationale. Call Number: BN NAL 1640 f. 59rv Notes: Latin, Autograph . Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 154 . Letter to to be checked, to be checked, Paris, Bibliothque Nationale. Call Number: BN NAF 20952 f. 167 Notes: Cited in Kristeller, Iter italicum . Letter to unknown, undated, Paris, Bibliothque Nationale. Call Number: BN NAL 1520, f.47r. Notes: Autograph, Latin, damaged. . "Prodromus Copto-Aegyptiacus.", Paris, Bibliothque Nationale. Call Number: BN Dupuy 663, f.95r-106r . "Scripturae in Monte Sinai Incisae Interpretatio Nova.", Paris, Bibliothque Nationale. Call Number: BN Dupuy 488, (448? Stolzenberg s. 365) ff. 161r-163v Notes: Autograph. Cited in Kristeller, Iter Italicum. Followed by a letter from Peiresc. . "Vita a Semet Ipso Conscripta.", Paris, Bibliothque Nationale. Call Number: BN NAL 216 Notes: According to Fletcher this is a seventeenth century copy. . "Vita a Semet Ipso Conscripta.", Paris, Bibliothque Nationale. Call Number: BN FL 24776 Notes: According to Fletcher this is an eigthteenth century copy. Kircher, Athanasius, and Christoph Scheiner. Letter to Peiresc, Nicholas Claude Fabri de, 1 December 1633, Paris, Bibliothque Nationale. Call Number: BN FF 9538 f.234r-v Notes: Consulted 23/6/1995. Microfilm (illegible): 5016 Scheiner, Christoph. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 16 July 1633, Paris, Bibliothque Nationale. Call Number: BN FF 9538 car. 227t Notes: See excerpt in Galileo "Opere" XV p.184

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Paris, Observatoire 1. Coninck, Juan Ramn de. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 20 July 1653, Paris, Observatoire. Call Number: Obs., C.1.3, f.431r Notes: Copy, excerpt. Original letter in APUG 567 135r-136v. Hevelius, Johan. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 12 March 1650, Paris, Observatoire. 12

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Call Number: Obs, C.1.2, f.161rv Notes: 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? . Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, April 1654, Paris, Observatoire. Call Number: Obs., C.1.3, f.422r-423r. Notes: no corresponding copy in APUG. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Hevelius, Johann, 17 February 1652, Paris, Observatoire. Call Number: Obs., C.1.2, f.316rv Notes: Autograph, waterdamaged.

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Parma, Biblioteca Palatini 1. Kircher, Athanasius. "Rituale Ecclesiae Aegyptiacae Sive Cophitarum.", Parma, Biblioteca Palatini. Call Number: to be checked Notes: 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. 73rv Notes: Consulted 10 August 2000 . Letter to Moretus, Theodorus, 1 February 1642, Prague, National Library at the Clementinum. Call Number: VI B 12b f. 144rv Notes: Consulted 10 August 2000 . Letter to Moretus, Theodorus, 19 February 1642, Prague, National Library at the Clementinum. Call Number: VI B 12b f. 219rv Notes: Consulted 10 August 2000

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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. 323-324 Notes: Latin-Italian 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 doesnt 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-47v Notes:

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Prague, Universitn Knihovna, Prague. : 1. Kircher, Athanasius. "Vita a Semet Ipso Conscripta.", Prague, Universitn Knihovna, Prague. . Call Number: UK MS. XIV C 12 Notes: 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 765 Notes: Autograph (?). Cited in Kristeller, Iter italicum. 13

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. "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. . "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. . "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. . "Protheoriae Seu Apparatus Ad Hieroglyphiarum Explicationem.", Rome, Archivum Pontificiae Universitatis Gregorianae. Call Number: APUG 812 Notes: Autograph (?). Cited in Kristeller, Iter italicum. 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 830 Notes: 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".

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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-165v Notes: Cit. in Cygan "Valerianus Magni Vita Prima.." p.266. Worth consulting . Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 29 May 1648, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Chigi a. I. 45, f. 187v Notes: Draft. Consulted 16/5/1995 14

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. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 24 February 1651, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Chigi A. I. 8, f. 163r Notes: Minutes. Original in APUG 556 ff. 43r-44v . Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 1 April 1651, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Chigi A. I. 8, f. 172rv Notes: Minutes. Original in APUG 556 ff. 37r-38v . Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 24 June 1651, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Chigi A. I. 8, f. 193rv Notes: Minutes. Original in APUG 556 f. 47rv Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Gaudentius, Paganinus, 6 March 1642, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Urb. Lat. 1629 ff. 416r-417v Notes: Autograph. Latin. . Letter to Gaudentius, Paganinus, 18 January 1647, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Urb. Lat. 1629 ff. 370r-371v Notes: Autograph, Latin. Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 153 . Letter to Gaudentius, Paganinus, 17 March 1647, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Urb. Lat. 1629 ff. 390r-391v Notes: Autograph, Latin. Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 153 . Letter to Gaudentius, Paganinus, 4 May 1647, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Urb. Lat. 1629 ff. 457r-458v Notes: Autograph. Latin. . Letter to Gaudentius, Paganinus, 9 June 1647, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Urb. Lat. 1629 ff. 465rv Notes: Autograph. Latin. . Letter to Gaudentius, Paganinus, 24 August 1647, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Urb. Lat. 1629 ff. 480r-481v Notes: Autograph. Latin. . Letter to Gaudentius, Paganinus, 11 October 1647, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Urb. Lat. 1629 ff. 514rv Notes: Autograph. Latin. . Letter to Gaudentius, Paganinus, 22 February 1648, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Urb. Lat. 1629 ff. 573r Notes: Autograph. Latin. . Letter to Barberini, Francesco, 6 March 1653, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Barb. Lat. 6467 f. 37r-v Notes: Autograph, Italian. Consulted. . Letter to Holstenius, Lucas, 24 November 1654, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Barb. Lat. 6499, f. 119r Notes: consulted. Autograph . Letter to Holstenius, Lucas, 15 October 1655, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Barb. Lat. 6499, f. 120r Notes: cited in Findlen, "Scientific spectacle ..." . Letter to Albano, Monsignore, 9 February 1660, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Vat. Lat. 9064 f. 93r-94r Notes: Copy, Italian, Latin, Greek. Consulted 22.6.1999 15

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. Letter to Maffei, Raffaello, 26 November 1661, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Autografi Ferrajoli. Raccolta prima, VI, f. 187rv . Letter to Maffei, Raffaello, 24 February 1662, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Autografi Ferrajoli. Raccolta prima, VI, f. 185r-186v Notes: Cit. Findlen, Scientific spectacle ...Italian, Autograph. Consulted 22.6.1999 . Letter to Maffei, Raffaello, 12 April 1662, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Autografi Ferrajoli. Raccolta prima, VI, f. 182r-183v Notes: Italian, Autograph. Cit. Findlen, Scientific spectacle .... Consulted 22.6.1999 . Letter to Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi), 14 July 1662, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Chigi F IV 48 ff. 1r-11v Notes: Latin, Greek, Arabic. Scribal hand. Introduction to "De Compositione Astrolabii (Herimanni)". Copy in BAV Chigi I. VI. 225, ff. 48r-58v . Letter to Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi), 14 July 1662, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Chigi I. VI. 225, ff. 48r-58v Notes: Latin, Greek, Arabic. Scribal hand. Introduction to "De Compositione Astrolabii (Herimanni)". Copy of BAV Chigi F IV 48 ff. 1r-11v . Letter to Alexander VII, Pope Fabio Chigi, 29 August 1663, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Chigi I. VI. 225 ff. 1r-9v Notes: Latin, Autograph signature. Consulted 24.6.1999. Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Beziehungen, p. 152 . Letter to Maffei, Raffaello, 27 July 1664, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Autografi Ferrajoli. Raccolta prima, VI, f. 184r Notes: Italian, Autograph. Consulted 22.6.1999 . Letter to Favoriti, Agostino, 22 June 1665, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Vat. lat. 8202, f. 48r Notes: Italian, autograph signature. Consulted 24 June 1999. Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 153. . 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 Bartla, 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. . Letter to unknown, 9 May 1666, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Vat. Lat. 9064 f. 83r Notes: Autograph, Italian. Consulted 22.6.1999 . Letter to Alexander VII, Pope Fabio Chigi, 27 October 1666, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Chigi I.VI.225 ff. 66r-67v Notes: Autograph, Latin. Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Beziehungen, p. 152 . Letter to Barberini, Francesco, 21 November 1666, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Barb. Lat. 6467 f. 38r-v Notes: Autograph, Italian. . Letter to Chigi, Flavio, 13 December 1666, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Chigi R. V. g f.460r-v Notes: Autograph, Italian. Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 156. Findlen suggests Flavio Chigi as recipient. . Letter to Barberini, Francesco, 14 December 1667, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. 16

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Call Number: BAV Barb. Lat. 6467 f. 39r-v Notes: Autograph, Italian. Consulted 32. . Letter to Sures, Joseph Marie, 6 December 1673, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Vat. Lat. 9064 f. 87r Notes: Autograph, Latin. Consulted 22.6.1999 . Letter to Nicaise, Claude, 14 March 1676, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Autografi Ferrajoli. Raccolta prima, VI, f. 188rv Notes: Latin, autograph. Ref. from Paolo Vian, ed., La "Raccolta Prima" degli Autografi Ferrajoli, Introduzione, inventario e indice, Citt del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1990. Consulted 22.6.1999 . Letter to Sures, 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 . "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-80v Notes: Latin. Edge of pages is damaged. . "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-77v Notes: Latin. Cf. Kircher to Alexander VII, Tusculi, 27 October 1666. . "Diatribe Arithmetica De Priscis Numerorum Notis Earumque Origine Et Fabrica.", Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Chigi F.IV.64 Notes: 41ff. . "Explicatio Horoscopij Vaticani.", Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Chigi H.II.22 ff. 251r-252r Notes: See A. Bartla, Alessandro VII e Athanasius Kircher. . "Expositio Numi Aenei Aegyptiaci.", Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Vat. Lat. 9064 f. 86rv Notes: Autograph, Latin and Greek. Consulted 22.6.1999 . "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. 51-84 Notes: Italian, cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 180. . "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-250v Notes: See A. Bartla, Alessandro VII e Athanasius Kircher. . "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. 253rv Notes: The volume contains details of expenses, plans, architects and sculptors involved in the building of St. Peter's. See A. Bartla, Alessandro VII e Athanasius Kircher. . "Iudicium De Antiquo MMScto De Sphaera.", Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. 17

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Call Number: BAV Chigi E. IV. 130 ff. 1r-8v Notes: For Alexander VII. Cited in Fletcher, AK und .. , p. 180. A copy is at Chigi J. VI. 225 42r47v 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- 47v Notes: For Alexander VII. Cited in Fletcher, AK und .. , p. 180. A copy of BAV Chigi E. IV. 130 . "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-88v Notes: Latin . "Iudicium De Praesenti Codice Ms.", Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Chigi C.IV. 96, ff. 4-6 Notes: Cited in Bartla, Alessandro VII e Athanasius Kircher, p. 47. . "Novum Hoc Inventum Quo Omnia Mundi Idiomata Ad Unum ReDucuntur.", Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Chigi I. VI. 225 ff.11r-37v Notes: See transcription in Kircher file . "Patris Kirkeri Allegatio De Alessia Civitate.", Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Barb. Lat. 2617 ff. 40r-41v Notes: 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" . "Scarabaeus Hieroglyphicus Expositus a P. Ath. Kircher.", Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Chigi I.VI.225 ff. 99r-107v Notes: Latin. Cited in A. Bartla, Alessandro VII e Athanasius Kircher S.J., on p. 30. . "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 . "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-41v Notes: Latin Kircher, Athanasius, and unidentified hand. Letter to Sures, Joseph Marie, 1672, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Vat. Lat. 9064 f. 84r-85v Notes: Autograph, Latin. Consulted 22.6.1999

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Call Number: 11 (LXXIV-1-11) f. 47r Notes: 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. 48r Notes: 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. Severino, Marco Aurelio. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 1 October 1649, Rome, Biblioteca Lancisiana. Call Number: 66 (LXXIV-3-12) f. 240rv Notes: 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. . Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 12 December 1652, Rome, Biblioteca Lancisiana. Call Number: 66 (LXXIV-3-12) f. 241r-242r Notes: 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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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. . "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 . "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 [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. Kircher, Athanasius. "Oedipus Aegyptiacus.", Rome, Biblioteca Nazionale di Roma "Vittorio Emmanuele II". Call Number: Fondo Gesuitico 1235 (3364) Notes: Cited in Kristeller, Iter italicum. . "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)

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Sheffield, Hartlib Papers 1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Kinner, Cyprian, 20 February 1648, Sheffield, Hartlib Papers. Call Number: Hartlib Papers 1/33/31B Notes: 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 1650 Call Number: Stegeborgssamlingen, box E 146 Notes: 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, sterreichische Nationalbibliothek 1. Kircher, Athanasius. "Linguarum Omnium Nova Arte Ad Unam Reductio.", Vienna, sterreichische Nationalbibliothek. Call Number: NB, MS. 9536 Notes: Cited in Evans "The Habsburg Monarchy" p. 353 note 18. Also mentioned in Fletcher (ed.) "Athanasius Kircher und seine Beziehungen... "p. 180 Fletcher claims, in "Kircher and Duke August of Wolfenbttel" p. 286, that this was the copy sent by Kircher to Leopold I. . "Nova Steganographia."1650. Vienna, sterreichische Nationalbibliothek. Call Number: NB, MS 9545 Notes: Cit. Evans "The Habsburg Monarchy" p. 352 note 18 . "Nova Steganographia."1650. Vienna, sterreichische Nationalbibliothek. Call Number: NB, MS 11388 Notes: Cit. Evans "The Habsburg Monarchy" p. 353 note 18 . "Vita a Semet Ipso Conscripta.", Vienna, sterreichische Nationalbibliothek. Call Number: Cod. 13.752 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, AK und ...

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Notes: Published in Richard van Dlmen, 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, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek . Call Number: HAB Cod. Guelf. 12 Gud. lat., f. 223 Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 153 . Letter to Friedrich III, duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf, 13 November 1652, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek . Call Number: HAB Cod. Guelf. 12 Gud. lat., f. 226 Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 153 . Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, 3 June 1660, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek. Call Number: HAB BA n. 356 Notes: Cit. in Fletcher (ed.) "Athanasius Kircher und seine..." p. 107. Published in Burkhard II, 131-133 . Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, 2 October 1660, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek . Call Number: HAB Cod. Guelf. 3. 5 Aug. 4o fol. 29 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 17 October 1660, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek. Call Number: HAB Ms. Cod. Guelf. 3. 5. Aug. 4o f. 30r-v Notes: Consulted 12.6.1997. In German. . Letter to Ferdinand Albrecht, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, 20 June 1663, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek . Call Number: HAB Fb 4o 52 Notes: Inside Ferdinand Albrecht's copy of the Polygraphia. From Fletcher, AK und..., p. 153 . Letter to Ferdinand Albrecht, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, 7 March 1664, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek . Call Number: HAB Fb 4o 52 Notes: Inside front of Ferdinand Albrecht's copy of the Polygraphia . Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, 19 March 1666, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek . Call Number: HAB 6 Nov. 2o ff. 59-61 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 291. Extract also in HAB Cod. Guelf. 3.I. 300 Aug. 2o . Letter to Conring, Herman, to be checked, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek . Call Number: HAB Extrav. 54 (fol. nos. to be checked) Notes: Kristeller, Iter italicum, VI; p. 547 . "Linguarum Omnium Nova Arte Ad Unam Reductio.", Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek . Call Number: HAB Fb 4o 52 Notes: Cited in Fletcher (ed.) Athanasius Kircher und seine Beziehungen... p. 180 . "Novum Inventum Linguarum Omnium Ad Unam Reducturam."1659. Wolfenbttel, 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.

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Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 352 Notes: Copy. Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 284 2. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Kinner, Cyprian, 7 November 1648, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 350.1 Notes: .Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 154. . Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, 18.January 1650, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 351 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..." p. 284 . Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, 4 March 1651, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 353 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 285 . Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, 28 July 1651, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 354 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 285 . Letter to Hirt, Johann Martin, 7 March 1659, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 375 Notes: Copy. Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 285 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 16 July 1659, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 376 Notes: Copy. Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 285 . Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, 3 January 1660, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 355 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 286 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 22 July 1662, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 383 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 287 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 2 September 1662, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 384 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 287 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 15 February 1663, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 385 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 287 . Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, 20 June 1663, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 358 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 288 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 17 May 1664, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. 22

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Call Number: HAB BA n. 393 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 288 14. . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 20 June 1664, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 394 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 288 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 5 July 1664, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 395 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 287 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 14 July 1664, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 397 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 288 . Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, 31 August 1664, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 359 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 289 . Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, 31 October 1664, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 360 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 289 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 10 January 1665, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 400 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 289 . Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, 27 March 1665, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 363 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and astronomy..."p.136 . Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, 27 March 1665, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 403 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and astronomy..."p.136 . Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, 25 April 1665, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 364 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 290 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 25 April 1665, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 404 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 290 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 24 July 1665, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 406 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 290 . Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, 25 July 1665, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 366 23

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Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 290 26. . Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, 1 August 1665, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 367 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 290 . Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, 22 August 1665, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 368 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 291 . Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, 2 April 1666, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 370 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 291 . Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, 10 July 1666, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 371 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 292 . Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, 24 July 1666, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 372 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 292 . Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, 4 September 1666, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 373 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 293 . Letter to no name, 9 October 1655, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 374 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 12 June 1660, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 377 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to no name, 21 August 1660, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 378 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to no name, 10 September 1661, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 379 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to no name, no date, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 380 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 3 February 1662, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 381 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to no name, 24 March 1662, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 382 24

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Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 39. . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 14 May 1663, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 386 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 7 July 1663, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 387 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 4 January 1664, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 388 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 25 January 1664, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 389 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 1 March 1664, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 390 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 15 March 1664, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 391 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 16 April 1664, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 392 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 12 July 1664, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 396 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 31 August 1664, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 398 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 31 October 1664, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 399 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 7 February 1665, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 401 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 14 February 1665, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 402 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 25

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. Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 8 May 1665, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 405 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 1 August 1665, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 407 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Pietro Paolo Mariani to Anckel, Johann Georg, 4 August 1665 , Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 408 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 22 August 1665, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 409 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 28 August 1665, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 410 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 6 September 1665, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 411 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 17 October 1665, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 412 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 31 October 1665, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 413 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 7 November 1665, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 414 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 26 December 1665, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 415 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 7 January 1666, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 416 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 27 February 1666, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 417 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 20 March 1666, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek 26

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Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 418 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 64. . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 16 April 1666, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 419 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 29 May 1666, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 420 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 10 July 1666, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 421 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 24 June 1666, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 422 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 7 August 1666, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 423 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 4 September 1666, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 424 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . 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, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 361 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, 21 February 1665, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 362 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, 8 May 1665, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 365 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, 8 January 1666, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 369 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152

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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. 408 Notes: Bound with Voynich manuscript Zmrsk, Sttn oblastn archv Collection: Rodinn archiv Piccolomini 1.Ottavio Piccolomini to Kircher, Nurenberg, 9 May, 1650 Call Number: 13668 Notes: Suzanne Sutherland 2.Kircher to Ottavio Piccolomini, Rome, 28 February, 1650 Call Number: 13737 Notes: Suzanne Sutherland

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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) 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 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). . 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. Chappuius, Ioannes. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 15 February 1645, Published in Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae (1646) p. 883. 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 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. . 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. 28

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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 Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to De Cambis, Jean, D'Orsan, De Langes, Siffredy, Barthomolm, 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 . 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. . 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. . 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. . 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 237238. Venice 1733, I 51-52. Notes: From Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 158. . 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. . 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 . 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. . Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, 18 January 1650, Published in Z. Goetz, Ad Augustum D.B. et L. Athanasii Kircheri S.I. epistolae tres, Osnabrck, 1717. Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..." p. 284 . 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 . 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. 385387. Call Number: BL: 182.a.8 . 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. . Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, 4 May 1651, Published in Z. Goetz, Ad Augustum 29

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D.B. et L. Athanasii Kircheri S.I. epistolae tres, Osnabrck, 1717. Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..." p. 284 23. . Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, 28 July 1651, Published in Z. Goetz, Ad Augustum D.B. et L. Athanasii Kircheri S.I. epistolae tres, Osnabrck, 1717. Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..." p. 284 . Letter to Schott, Gaspar, 22 March 1654, Published in Schott, Gaspar. Mechanica hydraulicopneumatica.. Wrzburg; 1657, pp. 312-313. . 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. 387388. Cit. in Fletcher "Athanasius Kircher und seine Beziehungen" p. 107. Call Number: BL: 182.a.8 . Letter to Schott, Gaspar, 26 February 1656, Published in Schott, Gaspar. Mechanica hydraulicopneumatica.. Wrzburg; 1657, pp. 452-3. . Letter to Schott, Gaspar, 25 March 1656, Published in Schott, Pantometrum Kircherianum, Wuerzburg, 1660, Preface. . 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 . 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 . 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 Schrkios, Seniorem & Juniorem. D. Hieronymum Velschium, Trigam Illustrem Medicorum, D. Ankelium, Theophilum Spizelium, & ad Autorem ipsum. Nunc prim in publiam lucem prodire Accurante A. R. D. Hieronymo Ambrosio Langenmantelio, Patr. Aug. & Can. Insig. respectiv Eccles. S. Mauritii & S. Petri. Augusta Vindelicorus: Typis Utzschneiderianis; M.DC.LXXXIV. Call Number: BL 1165.b.15. Notes: 25 letters. . Letter to Kinner von Lwenthurm, Godefrid Alois, 7 August 1661, Published in G. Schott, Organum mathematicum, Wrzburg, 1668, pp. 57-64. Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 158. . Letter to Schott, Gaspar, 16 December 1662, Published in Schott, Technica curiosa sive mirabilia artis, Nuremberg, 1664, p. 481. . 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 . 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 . Letter to Schott, Gaspar, 31 January 1665, Published in S. Lubienietzki, Theatrum cometicum, Amsterdam, 1668, 1666, I 764-765. Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ...., p. 159 30

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. 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 . 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. . 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. . 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 redleather binding bearing Chigi arms) . 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 . 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 Schrkios, Seniorem & Juniorem. D. Hieronymum Velschium, Trigam Illustrem Medicorum, D. Ankelium, Theophilum Spizelium, & ad Autorem ipsum. Nunc prim in publiam lucem prodire Accurante A. R. D. Hieronymo Ambrosio Langenmantelio, Patr. Aug. & Can. Insig. respectiv Eccles. S. Mauritii & S. Petri. Augusta Vindelicorus: Typis Utzschneiderianis; M.DC.LXXXIV, pp. 4-6. Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 159 . 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 Schrkios, Seniorem & Juniorem. D. Hieronymum Velschium, Trigam Illustrem Medicorum, D. Ankelium, Theophilum Spizelium, & ad Autorem ipsum. Nunc prim in publiam lucem prodire Accurante A. R. D. Hieronymo Ambrosio Langenmantelio, Patr. Aug. & Can. Insig. respectiv Eccles. S. Mauritii & S. Petri. Augusta Vindelicorus: Typis Utzschneiderianis; M.DC.LXXXIV, pp. 7-25. Notes: Ten letters. Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 159 . Letter to Sachs von Lwenheim, Philipp Jakob, 6 February 1672, Published in J.D. Major, Memoria Sachsiana, Leipzig, 1675, pp. 39-40. Notes: From Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 159. . 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 . 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 . 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. 31

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. 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. . 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. . Letter to Henschenius, Godefridus, 2 July 1675, Published in J.B. Pitra, Etudes sur la Collection des Actes des Saints par les RR. PP. Jsuites Bollandistes, Paris, 1850, pp. 202-203. Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 157 . 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. . 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. . 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. . 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) . 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) . Letter to Johann Friedrich, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, 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) . 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) . 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. . Letter to Schnborn, 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. . Letter to Ferdinando II dei Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, 32

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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. . 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. . 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 . 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 . 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. . 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. . 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. . 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. . 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. . 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. . 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. 33

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. 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. . Letter to Suars, 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. . 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 . 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. . 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. . 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. . 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. . 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, 16521654, Tomus III (1654), p. 474 (Copy used: BAV Chigi.S.91). Notes: Dedicatory letter for Syntagma XVI, De Penatibus, Laribus et Serapibus Aegyptiorum. . 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. . 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. . 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. . Letter to Ndasdy, Ferenc von, n.d., Published in Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 34

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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 . 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. . 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 Schrkios, Seniorem & Juniorem. D. Hieronymum Velschium, Trigam Illustrem Medicorum, D. Ankelium, Theophilum Spizelium, & ad Autorem ipsum. Nunc prim in publiam lucem prodire Accurante A. R. D. Hieronymo Ambrosio Langenmantelio, Patr. Aug. & Can. Insig. respectiv 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 . 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. . 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. . 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. Leopold Wilhelm, Archduke of Austria. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 3 April 1660, Published on third page of Kircher's Polygraphia Universalis. Martini, Martino. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 1638, Published excerpt in Athanasius Kircher, Magnes, Rome: Ludovico Grignani, 1641, pp. 433-435. . Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, undated (6 February 1639), Published excerpt in Athanasius Kircher, Magnes, Rome: Ludovico Grignani, 1641, pp. 436. 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. Mersenne, Marin. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, undated, Published excerpt in Athanasius Kircher, Magnes, Rome: Ludovico Grignani, 1641, pp. 473. Notes: Latin 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 35

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APUG 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 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).

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3. Kirchers 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-94r Notes: 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-11v Notes: Latin, Greek, Arabic. Scribal hand. Introduction to "De Compositione Astrolabii (Herimanni)". Copy in BAV Chigi J. VI. 225, ff. 48r-58v . Letter to Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi), 14 July 1662, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Chigi J. VI. 225, ff. 48r-58v Notes: Latin, Greek, Arabic. Scribal hand. Introduction to "De Compositione Astrolabii (Herimanni)". Copy of BAV Chigi F IV 48 ff. 1r-11v . 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) . 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

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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-9v Notes: Latin, Autograph signature. Consulted 24.6.1999. Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Beziehungen, p. 152 . 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 Bartla, 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. . Letter to Alexander VII, Pope Fabio Chigi, 27 October 1666, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Chigi J.VI.225 ff. 66r-67v Notes: Autograph, Latin. Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Beziehungen, p. 152 . 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.

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Call Number: Carte Allacci CXLVII ff. 303r-304v Notes: From Kristeller, Iter italicum, VI, p. 189a. Consulted 24.6.1999 2. . 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

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

Anckel, Johann Georg 1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 16 July 1659, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 376 Notes: Copy. Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 285 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 17 October 1660, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek. Call Number: HAB Ms. Cod. Guelf. 3. 5. Aug. 4o f. 30r-v Notes: Consulted 12.6.1997. In German. . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 17 October 1661, Basel, ffentliche Bibliothek der Universitt. Call Number: to be checked Notes: Published in H. A. Langenmantel, Fasciculus, pp. 26-30. Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 22 July 1662, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 383 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 287 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 22 July 1662, Basel, ffentliche Bibliothek der Universitt. Call Number: to be checked Notes: 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 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 2 September 1662, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 384 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 287 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 15 February 1663, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 385 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 287 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 17 May 1664, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 393 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 288 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 20 June 1664, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 394 38

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Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 288 10. . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 5 July 1664, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 395 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 287 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 14 July 1664, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 397 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 288 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 10 January 1665, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 400 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 289 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 29 April 1665, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 404 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 290 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, 24 July 1665, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 406 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 290 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, to be checked, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 374 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, to be checked, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 377 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, to be checked, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 378 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, to be checked, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 379 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, to be checked, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 380 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, to be checked, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 381 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, to be checked, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 382 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 39

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Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 405 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 35. . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, to be checked, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 407 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, to be checked, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 408 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, to be checked, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 409 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, to be checked, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 410 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, to be checked, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 411 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, to be checked, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 412 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, to be checked, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 413 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, to be checked, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 414 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, to be checked, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 415 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, to be checked, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 416 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, to be checked, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 417 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, to be checked, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. 41

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Call Number: HAB BA n. 418 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 47. . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, to be checked, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 419 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, to be checked, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 420 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, to be checked, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 421 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, to be checked, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 422 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, to be checked, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 423 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to Anckel, Johann Georg, to be checked, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 424 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152

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Angles, Bernard d' 1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Angles, Bernard d', 2 March 1654, Dijon, Bibliothque Municipale. Call Number: Bibliothque Municipale ms. 844 Notes: 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-Lneburg 1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, January 1650, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 351 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..." p. 284 . Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, 18 January 1650, Published in Z. Goetz, Ad Augustum D.B. et L. Athanasii Kircheri S.I. epistolae tres, Osnabrck, 1717. Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..." p. 284 . Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, March 1651, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 353 42

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Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 285 4. . Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, 4 May 1651, Published in Z. Goetz, Ad Augustum D.B. et L. Athanasii Kircheri S.I. epistolae tres, Osnabrck, 1717. Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..." p. 284 . Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, July 1651, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 354 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 285 . Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, 28 July 1651, Published in Z. Goetz, Ad Augustum D.B. et L. Athanasii Kircheri S.I. epistolae tres, Osnabrck, 1717. Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..." p. 284 . Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, 3 January 1660, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 355 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 286 . Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, 3 June 1660, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek. Call Number: HAB BA n. 356 Notes: Cit. in Fletcher (ed.) "Athanasius Kircher und seine..." p. 107. Published in Burkhard II, 131-133 . Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, 2 October 1660, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek . Call Number: HAB Cod. Guelf. 3. 5 Aug. 4o fol. 29 Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 152 . Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, 20 June 1663, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 358 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 288 . Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, 31 August 1664, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 359 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 289 . Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, 31 October 1664, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 360 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 289 . Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, 27 March 1665, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 363 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and astronomy..."p.136 . Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, 27 March 1665, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 403 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and astronomy..."p.136 . Letter to August, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, 25 April 1665, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 364 Notes: Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 290 43

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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. . Letter to Barberini, Francesco, 6 March 1653, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Barb. Lat. 6467 f. 37r-v Notes: Autograph, Italian. Consulted. . Letter to Barberini, Francesco, 21 November 1666, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Barb. Lat. 6467 f. 38r-v Notes: Autograph, Italian. . Letter to Barberini, Francesco, 14 December 1667, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Barb. Lat. 6467 f. 39r-v Notes: Autograph, Italian. Consulted . 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.

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Billy, Jacques de 1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Billy, Jacques de, 21 February 1660, Paris, Bibliothque 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, ffentliche Bibliothek der Universitt. Call Number: to be checked Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 153 . Letter to Buxtorf, Johann, 2 January 1639, Basel, ffentliche Bibliothek der Universitt. Call Number: to be checked Notes: Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 153

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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 45

Carre, Pierre 1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to De Cambis, Jean, D'Orsan, De Langes, Siffredy, Barthomolm, 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

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-v Notes: 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, Wolfenbttel, 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 . Letter to Cosimo III dei Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 20 December 1675, Florence, Archivio di Stato. Call Number: ASF Med 3942 f.1 . Letter to Cosimo III dei Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 30 October 1678, Florence, Archivio di Stato. Call Number: ASF Med, 1115, f.6

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D'Orsan 1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to De Cambis, Jean, D'Orsan, De Langes, Siffredy, Barthomolm, 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

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 Mdicine. Call Number: H268 f. 9rv Notes: Cit. Anna Nicolo, Il Carteggio di Cassiano dal Pozzo: Catalogo, Florence: Olschki, 1991, p. 3 . Letter to Dal Pozzo, Cassiano, 18 September 1647, Montpellier, Ecole de Mdicine. Call Number: H270 fol. 291 Notes: 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 46

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

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De Cambis, Jean 1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to De Cambis, Jean, D'Orsan, De Langes, Siffredy, Barthomolm, 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

De Langes 1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to De Cambis, Jean, D'Orsan, De Langes, Siffredy, Barthomolm, 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

Doni, Giovanni Battista 1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Doni, Giovanni Battista, 19 October 1647, London, British Library. Call Number: BL Egerton ms. 22, fol. 40 Notes: 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. 48r Notes: Italian, autograph signature. Consulted 24 June 1999. Cited in Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher und seine Bezeihungen, p. 153.

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Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Ferdinand Albrecht, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, 20 June 1663, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek . Call Number: HAB Fb 4o 52 Notes: Inside Ferdinand Albrecht's copy of the Polygraphia. From Fletcher, AK und..., p. 153 . Letter to Ferdinand Albrecht, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg, 7 March 1664, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek . Call Number: HAB Fb 4o 52 Notes: Inside front of Ferdinand Albrecht's copy of the Polygraphia

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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. . 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 . 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.

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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.4 Notes: autograph, Italian Kircher 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. . Letter to Ferdinando II dei Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 8 November 1659, Florence, Archivio di Stato. Call Number: Mediceo del Principato, 1026, f.149 Notes: autograph, Italian . 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.150 Notes: 15th November, 1659, Rome autograph signature 48

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la Cassetta del Artifizio delle lingue letter 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.515 Notes: autograph signature misplaced in volume as 21st June, 1664. Polygraphia Reply 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. . Letter to Ferdinando II dei Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 7 July 1666, Florence, Archivio di Stato. Call Number: ASF Med, 1026, f.677 Notes: not autograph Mirto, 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. . Letter to Ferdinando II dei Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 10 February 1672, Florence, Archivio di Stato. Call Number: ASF Med, 3940, f.4 Notes: is this the right recipient? When does Ferdinando II die?? . 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

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Ferrand, Jean 1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Ferrand, Jean, 4 June 1633, Carpentras, Bibliothque de Carpentras. Call Number: Mss. de Peiresc, II. f. 402 Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 153 . Letter to Ferrand, Jean, 4 June 1633, Paris, Bibliothque Nationale. Call Number: BN FF 9362 f.16rv Notes: Note: Copy, Latin. See Fletcher 'Kircher & Peiresc'

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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) 314315. 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, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek . Call Number: HAB Cod. Guelf. 12 Gud. lat., f. 223 Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 153 . 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. 385387. 49

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Call Number: BL: 182.a.8 3. . Letter to Friedrich III, duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf, 13 November 1652, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek . Call Number: HAB Cod. Guelf. 12 Gud. lat., f. 226 Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 153 . 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. 387388. Cit. in Fletcher "Athanasius Kircher und seine Beziehungen" p. 107. Call Number: BL: 182.a.8

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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, Bibliothque 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 . Letter to Gassendi, Pierre, 23 September 1634, Paris, Bibliothque Nationale. Call Number: BN NAL 1637 ff. 57r - 58v 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. 426-7. . Letter to Gassendi, Pierre, 2 July 1639, Paris, Bibliothque Nationale. Call Number: BN NAL 1637, ff. 109r-110v 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. 436-7. . Letter to Gassendi, Pierre, 13 February 1642, Paris, Bibliothque 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

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Gaudentius, Paganinus 1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Gaudentius, Paganinus, 6 March 1642, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Urb. Lat. 1629 ff. 416r-417v Notes: Autograph. Latin. . Letter to Gaudentius, Paganinus, 18 January 1647, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. 50

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Call Number: BAV Urb. Lat. 1629 ff. 370r-371v Notes: 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-391v Notes: Autograph, Latin. Cit. Fletcher, AK und..., p. 153 . Letter to Gaudentius, Paganinus, 4 May 1647, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Urb. Lat. 1629 ff. 457r-458v Notes: Autograph. Latin. . Letter to Gaudentius, Paganinus, 9 June 1647, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Urb. Lat. 1629 ff. 465rv Notes: Autograph. Latin. . Letter to Gaudentius, Paganinus, 24 August 1647, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Urb. Lat. 1629 ff. 480r-481v Notes: Autograph. Latin. . Letter to Gaudentius, Paganinus, 11 October 1647, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Urb. Lat. 1629 ff. 514rv Notes: Autograph. Latin. . Letter to Gaudentius, Paganinus, 22 February 1648, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Urb. Lat. 1629 ff. 573r Notes: Autograph. Latin.

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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 . 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 . 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 . 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 51

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Kircher's printed works. Information and photocopy from Guido Rebecchini 5. . Letter to Gonzaga, Ferdinando Giovanni di, 30 October 1660, Castiglione, Archivio di Castiglione delle Stiviere. Call Number: Busta 241, cartella XLIII, no. 6, 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 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

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Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Grand Duke of Tuscany, 15 June 1656, Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale. Call Number: BNCF: Ms. Gal. 275 f.43r Notes: 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 Universittsbibliothek. Call Number: Ms. 617, fol. 100r-100v Notes: 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. Jsuites Bollandistes, Paris, 1850, pp. 202203. 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. . Letter to Hevelius, Johann, 20 June 1649, Paris, Bibliothque Nationale. Call Number: BN NAL 1635 f.109 Notes: Autograph, Latin 53

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Hirt, Johann Martin 1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Hirt, Johann Martin, 7 March 1659, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 375 Notes: 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. 119r Notes: consulted. Autograph . Letter to Holstenius, Lucas, 15 October 1655, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Barb. Lat. 6499, f. 120r Notes: cited in Findlen, "Scientific spectacle ..." . 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

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

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

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Kinner von Lwenthurm, Godefrid Alois 1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Kinner von Lwenthurm, Godefrid Alois, 7 August 1661, Published in G. Schott, Organum mathematicum, Wrzburg, 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) 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-165v Notes: Cit. in Cygan "Valerianus Magni Vita Prima.." p.266. Worth consulting . Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 29 May 1648, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Chigi a. I. 45, f. 187v Notes: Draft. Consulted 16/5/1995 . Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 24 February 1651, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Chigi A. I. 8, f. 163r Notes: Minutes. Original in APUG 556 ff. 43r-44v . Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 1 April 1651, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Chigi A. I. 8, f. 172rv Notes: Minutes. Original in APUG 556 ff. 37r-38v . Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 24 June 1651, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Chigi A. I. 8, f. 193rv Notes: Minutes. Original in APUG 556 f. 47rv August, Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, January 1651, Wolfenbttel, Herzog August Bibliothek - Bibliotheksarchiv. Call Number: HAB BA n. 352 Notes: Copy. Cited in Fletcher "Kircher and Duke August..."p. 284 55

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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 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). . 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. Chappuius, Ioannes. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 15 February 1645, Published in Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae (1646) p. 883. Charpentier, Franois. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 15 October 1648, Paris, Bibliothque Nationale. Call Number: BN NAF 6262, f.30rv Coninck, Juan Ramn de. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 20 July 1653, Paris, Observatoire. Call Number: Obs., C.1.3, f.431r Notes: Copy, excerpt. Original letter in APUG 567 135r-136v. Dal Pozzo, Cassiano. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 28 November 1647, Montpellier, Ecole de Mdicine. Call Number: H270 f. 295rv Notes: Cit. Anna Nicolo, Il Carteggio di Cassiano dal Pozzo: Catalogo, Florence: Olschki, 1991, p. 8 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 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. . 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. 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 Hevelius, Johan. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 12 March 1650, Paris, Observatoire. Call Number: Obs, C.1.2, f.161rv Notes: Latin, Autograph. Copy of APUG 557 342r343v? . 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? . Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, April 1654, Paris, Observatoire. Call Number: Obs., C.1.3, f.422r-423r. Notes: no corresponding copy in APUG. 56

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Kinner, Cyprian. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 20 May 1648, London, British Library. Call Number: BL Sloane ms. 649 ff. 17r-18r Notes: 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 Dlmen. There is another copy of this letter in the Hartlib papers, 1/33/36A Leopold Wilhelm, Archduke of Austria. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 3 April 1660, Published on third page of Kircher's Polygraphia Universalis. 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. 408 Notes: Bound with Voynich manuscript Martini, Martino. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 1638, Published excerpt in Athanasius Kircher, Magnes, Rome: Ludovico Grignani, 1641, pp. 433-435. . Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, undated (6 February 1639), Published excerpt in Athanasius Kircher, Magnes, Rome: Ludovico Grignani, 1641, pp. 436. 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. Mersenne, Marin. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, undated, Published excerpt in Athanasius Kircher, Magnes, Rome: Ludovico Grignani, 1641, pp. 473. Notes: Latin 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 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 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). Scheiner, Christoph. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 16 July 1633, Paris, Bibliothque Nationale. Call Number: BN FF 9538 car. 227t Notes: See excerpt in Galileo "Opere" XV p.184 Severino, Marco Aurelio. Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 1 October 1649, Rome, Biblioteca Lancisiana. Call Number: 66 (LXXIV-3-12) f. 240rv Notes: 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. . Letter to Kircher, Athanasius, 12 December 1652, Rome, Biblioteca Lancisiana. Call Number: 66 (LXXIV-3-12) f. 241r-242r Notes: 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. 57

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

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La Mare, Philibert de 1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to La Mare, Philibert de, 2 March 1654, Dijon, Bibliothque Municipale. Call Number: Ms. 844 Notes: 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 49-51 Notes: 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 Schrkios, Seniorem & Juniorem. D. Hieronymum Velschium, Trigam Illustrem Medicorum, D. Ankelium, Theophilum Spizelium, & ad Autorem ipsum. Nunc prim in publiam lucem prodire Accurante A. R. D. Hieronymo Ambrosio Langenmantelio, Patr. Aug. & Can. Insig. respectiv 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, Gttingen, Niederschsische Staats- und Universittsbibliothek. Call Number: Cod. Philos. 138 m. VI.56 Notes: 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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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. . 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.

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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. . 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.

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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 . Letter to Maffei, Raffaello, 24 February 1662, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Autografi Ferrajoli. Raccolta prima, VI, f. 185r-186v Notes: Cit. Findlen, Scientific spectacle ...Italian, Autograph. Consulted 22.6.1999 . Letter to Maffei, Raffaello, 12 April 1662, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Autografi Ferrajoli. Raccolta prima, VI, f. 182r-183v Notes: Italian, Autograph. Cit. Findlen, Scientific spectacle .... Consulted 22.6.1999 . Letter to Maffei, Raffaello, 27 July 1664, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Autografi Ferrajoli. Raccolta prima, VI, f. 184r Notes: Italian, Autograph. Consulted 22.6.1999

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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. 59

Call Number: BNCF: Ms. Gal. 275 f.23 Notes: 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. 70 Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 154. Copy in Aut. Pal. IV. 40 . Letter to Medici, Leopoldo de', 21 June 1663, Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale. Call Number: BNCF Ms. Gal. 276, f.201 Notes: Printed in Mirto, pp.142-3 . Letter to Medici, Leopoldo de', 3 December 1667, Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale. Call Number: BNCF Ms. Gal. 278 ff.103r-v Notes: Consulted 4/5/1995. See transcription in Kircher file. There is a copy (sketch) of this letter in APUG 564 f. 138r . 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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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, Bibliothque Nationale. Call Number: BN NAF 6204, f. 105 Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 154

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

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Moretus, Theodorus 1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Moretus, Theodorus, 12 March 1634, Prague, National Library at the Clementinum. Call Number: VI B 12b f. 73rv Notes: Consulted 10 August 2000 . Letter to Moretus, Theodorus, 1 February 1642, Prague, National Library at the Clementinum. Call Number: VI B 12b f. 144rv Notes: Consulted 10 August 2000 60

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. Letter to Moretus, Theodorus, 19 February 1642, Prague, National Library at the Clementinum. Call Number: VI B 12b f. 219rv Notes: Consulted 10 August 2000

Ndasdy, Ferenc von 1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Ndasdy, 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. 188rv Notes: Latin, autograph. Ref. from Paolo Vian, ed., La "Raccolta Prima" degli Autografi Ferrajoli, Introduzione, inventario e indice, Citt 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. . 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.

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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. . 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.

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Peiresc, Nicholas Claude Fabri de 1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Peiresc, Nicholas Claude Fabri de, 14 November 1633, Paris, Bibliothque Nationale. Call Number: BN FF 9538 ff. 230r-232v Notes: Autograph, Latin, damaged, sometimes illegible. . Letter to Peiresc, Nicholas Claude Fabri de, 8 February 1635, Paris, Bibliothque Nationale. Call Number: BN FF 9362 ff. 13-16 Notes: Copy of BN NAF 5173 ff. 25r-27v 61

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. Letter to Peiresc, Nicholas Claude Fabri de, 8 February 1635, Paris, Bibliothque Nationale. Call Number: BN NAF 5173 ff. 25r-27v. Notes: Autograph, Latin. Copy at BN FF 9362, ff.13r-16r . Letter to Peiresc, Nicholas Claude Fabri de, 3 December 1636, Paris, Bibliothque Nationale. Call Number: BN FF 9538 f. 236r-238v Notes: Autograph, Latin & Arabic. . Letter to Peiresc, Nicholas Claude Fabri de, 22 December 1636, Paris, Bibliothque Nationale. Call Number: BN FF 9538 f.239rv Notes: Latin, Autograph . Letter to Peiresc, Nicholas Claude Fabri de, 7 January 1637, Paris, Bibliothque Nationale. Call Number: BN FF 9538 f.240rv Notes: Latin, Autograph Kircher, Athanasius, and Christoph Scheiner. Letter to Peiresc, Nicholas Claude Fabri de, 1 December 1633, Paris, Bibliothque Nationale. Call Number: BN FF 9538 f.234r-v Notes: Consulted 23/6/1995. Microfilm (illegible): 5016

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Pereisc, Nicholas Claude Fabri de 1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Pereisc, Nicholas Claude Fabri de, 9 August 1633, Paris, Bibliothque Nationale. Call Number: BN FF 9538 f. 227r-228v Notes: 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. 215 Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 155. . Letter to Redi, Francesco, 12 December 1671?, Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurentiana. Call Number: Laur. Redi 224 f. 216 Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 155. Check date . Letter to Redi, Francesco, 29 June 1675?, Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurentiana. Call Number: Laur. Redi 203 f. 289 Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 155. Check date

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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. . 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. 62

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Sachs von Lwenheim, Philipp Jakob 1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Sachs von Lwenheim, 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. . 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. . 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.

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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.

Schnborn, Johann Philipp von 1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Schnborn, 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. 2. 3. 4. 5. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Schott, Gaspar, 22 March 1654, Published in Schott, Gaspar. Mechanica hydraulico-pneumatica.. Wrzburg; 1657, pp. 312-313. . Letter to Schott, Gaspar, 26 February 1656, Published in Schott, Gaspar. Mechanica hydraulico-pneumatica.. Wrzburg; 1657, pp. 452-3. . Letter to Schott, Gaspar, 25 March 1656, Published in Schott, Pantometrum Kircherianum, Wuerzburg, 1660, Preface. . Letter to Schott, Gaspar, 16 December 1662, Published in Schott, Technica curiosa sive mirabilia artis, Nuremberg, 1664, p. 481. . 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 . Letter to Schott, Gaspar, 31 January 1665, Published in S. Lubienietzki, Theatrum cometicum, Amsterdam, 1668, 1666, I 764-765. Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ...., p. 159 . 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

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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 Schrkios, Seniorem & Juniorem. D. Hieronymum Velschium, Trigam Illustrem Medicorum, D. Ankelium, Theophilum Spizelium, & ad Autorem ipsum. Nunc prim in publiam lucem prodire Accurante A. R. D. Hieronymo Ambrosio Langenmantelio, Patr. Aug. & Can. Insig. respectiv 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 Schrkios, Seniorem & Juniorem. D. Hieronymum Velschium, Trigam Illustrem Medicorum, D. Ankelium, Theophilum Spizelium, & ad Autorem ipsum. Nunc prim in publiam lucem prodire Accurante A. R. D. Hieronymo Ambrosio Langenmantelio, Patr. Aug. & Can. Insig. respectiv 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. 2r Notes: 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. . Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 30 January 1677, London, British Library. Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 3r Notes: Italian . Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 6 February 1677, London, British Library. Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 4r Notes: Italian . Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 13 February 1677, London, British Library. Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 5r Notes: Italian . Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 28 February 1677, London, British Library. Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 6r Notes: Italian . Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 27 March 1677, London, British Library. Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 7r Notes: Italian . Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 1 May 1677, London, British Library. Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 9r Notes: Italian . Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 20 June 1677, London, British Library. Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 10r Notes: Italian . Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 25 June 1677, London, British Library. Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 11r 64

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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. 12r Notes: Italian . Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 21 August 1677, London, British Library. Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 13r Notes: Italian . Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 14 September 1677, London, British Library. Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 14r Notes: Italian, poor hand. . Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 27 March 1678, London, British Library. Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 16r Notes: Italian . Letter to Segni, Alessandro, undated, London, British Library. Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 17r Notes: Italian . Letter to Segni, Alessandro, undated (late December 1677?), London, British Library. Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 15r Notes: Italian, poor hand. Kircher, Athanasius, and Elio Loreto. Letter to Segni, Alessandro, 17 April 1678, London, British Library. Call Number: BL Add. Ms. 22,804, f. 18r Notes: Italian

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Severino, Marco Aurelio 1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Severino, Marco Aurelio, 17 November 1649, Rome, Biblioteca Lancisiana. Call Number: 13 (LXXIV-1-13), f. 339 Notes: Autograph, Latin and Greek. From Kristeller. See also Pietro de Angelis, Giovanni Maria Lancisi. La Biblioteca Lancisiana, L'Accademia Lancisiana, Rome, 1965, p. 151 . Letter to Severino, Marco Aurelio, 24 November 1652, Rome, Biblioteca Lancisiana. Call Number: 11 (LXXIV-1-11) f. 47r Notes: 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. . Letter to Severino, Marco Aurelio, 6 June 1654, Rome, Biblioteca Lancisiana. Call Number: 11 (LXXIV-1-11) f. 48r Notes: 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.

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Siffredy, Barthomolm 1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to De Cambis, Jean, D'Orsan, De Langes, Siffredy, Barthomolm, 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

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 65

(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. 171-172 Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 155. . 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 Schrkios, Seniorem & Juniorem. D. Hieronymum Velschium, Trigam Illustrem Medicorum, D. Ankelium, Theophilum Spizelium, & ad Autorem ipsum. Nunc prim in publiam lucem prodire Accurante A. R. D. Hieronymo Ambrosio Langenmantelio, Patr. Aug. & Can. Insig. respectiv 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

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Suars, Joseph-Marie 1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Suars, 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.

Sures, Joseph Marie 1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Sures, Joseph Marie, 6 December 1673, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Vat. Lat. 9064 f. 87r Notes: Autograph, Latin. Consulted 22.6.1999 . Letter to Sures, 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 Kircher, Athanasius, and unidentified hand. Letter to Sures, Joseph Marie, 1672, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Call Number: BAV Vat. Lat. 9064 f. 84r-85v Notes: Autograph, Latin. Consulted 22.6.1999

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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 . Letter to to be checked, 1654, Copenhagen, Rigsarkivet, Tyske Kancellis Udenrigs-Afdeling, almindelig del, 3: Diverse sager vedrrende 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. 66

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. Letter to to be checked, 1662, Siena, Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati. Call Number: Autografi Porri, busta 5, no. 86 Notes: Cited in Kristeller, Iter italicum. . Letter to to be checked, to be checked, Forl, Biblioteca Comunale. Call Number: Autografi Piancastelli, 1214 Notes: 2 letters, cited in Kristeller, Iter italicum . Letter to to be checked, to be checked, Siena, Biblioteca Comunale. Call Number: K XI 53 Notes: Includes letters from Kircher. Cited in Kristeller, Iter italicum. . Letter to to be checked, to be checked, Paris, Bibliothque Nationale. Call Number: BN NAF 20952 f. 167 Notes: Cited in Kristeller, Iter italicum . Letter to to be checked, to be checked, Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Call Number: Depot Breslau 17 Notes: From Kristeller, Iter italicum . Letter to to be checked, to be checked, Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Call Number: Autographensammlung Darmstaedter, exact shelf mark to be checked Notes: From Kristeller, Iter italicum . Letter to to be checked, to be checked, Hamburg, Staats- und Universittsbibliothek, Supellex Epistolica. Call Number: Sup. ep. 4; 13; 26 Notes: 3 letters. From Kristeller, Iter italicum . Letter to to be checked, to be checked, Florence, Archivio di Stato. Call Number: Archivio Mediceo del Principato Notes: Cited in Kristeller, Iter, V, p. 546a. . Letter to to be checked, to be checked, Prague, Strahov monastery. Call Number: to be checked Notes: Information provided by Rene Zandbergen

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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. 83r Notes: Autograph, Italian. Consulted 22.6.1999 . Letter to unknown, 30 May 1672, Hamburg, Staats- und Universittsbibliothek - Carl von Ossietzky. Call Number: to be checked Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 156. . Letter to unknown, 17 September 1673, Edinburgh, University Library. Call Number: La II 653/42 Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 155. . Letter to unknown, 15 June 1675, Gttingen, Niederschsische Staats- und 67

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Universittsbibliothek. Call Number: Cod. Philos. 138 m. II 31 Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 156. 5. . Letter to unknown, 31 December 1678, Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum. Call Number: Kircher, A. 1678 Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 155. . Letter to unknown, undated, Paris, Bibliothque Nationale. Call Number: BN NAL 1520, f.47r. Notes: Autograph, Latin, damaged.

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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, 41-53 Notes: 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. 67 Notes: 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.8 Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 155. . 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

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Witzel, Konrad 1. Kircher, Athanasius. Letter to Witzel, Konrad, January 1664-31 January 1664, Geisa (Rhn), Pfarrarchiv. Call Number: to be checked Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 155. . Letter to Witzel, Konrad, 7 May 1665, Geisa (Rhn), Pfarrarchiv. Call Number: to be checked Notes: Cit. Fletcher, AK und ..., p. 155.

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