Translation / modern text
[P. 2]
My Greatly Gracious Lord Aknif,
and my Gracious Lord and Friend!
I wish good health to Your Grace, my Lord. Hereby I announce that, according to my letter to Your Grace, my Lord, from Sibiu, I am sending Your Grace thalers [birichtowo], which I am sending to His Grace Lord Mikołaj Michalewicz, so that he may hand them over to Your Grace, my Lord. I greatly request that you collect this thousand thalers, and as for the rest, God willing, once I arrive here at the Jarosław fair, we shall settle accounts according to what is fair. Having announced this, I remain Your Grace, my Lord's
well-wishing friend
and ready to serve,
Mikołaj Michalewicz
February 27, 1692 in Bistrița
M. 218
[P. 3]
[Address:]
To my Greatly Gracious Lord and Friend, His Grace Lord Jan Aknif, to be delivered
in Jarosław
Original wording — transcription
[S. 2]
Mnie wielce M[oś]ci Panie aknif
A moy M[oś]c[i] Panie y Przyacielu
Nawiedzam z[d]rowia dobrego w m m Panu. Przit[y]m oznaimuie ze wedlug Pisania mego do w m m P[ana] iz sibina Przesilam w me Panu Talerow birichtovo ktorich przesilam do J[e]g[o] M[oś]c Pana Mikolay Michalewicza abi w m m Panu oddał wielce proszę tą tisące talerow odebrac a co o Reste da Pan Bog zdrowia na Jarmark Jaroslawski ia tu Prziechawsi Po Rachuiemisie wedlug slusnosci to oznaymnwsi Zostawam w m m P[ana]
Zyczliwym Przyacielem
y sluzie Rad
Mikołay michalewicz [podpis]
1692 Die 27 February w Bistricie
[Dopisek u dołu inną ręką:] M. 218
[S. 3, adres:]
Memu wielce M[oś]c[i] Panu y Przyacielowi J[e]g[o] M[oś]c Panu Janowi aknitowi [aknifowi] oddac Nalezy
w Jarosławiu
Reading notes
Page 1 is an archival inventory card. The letter was sent from Bistrița (in Transylvania), mentioning Sibiu and the Jarosław fair. The author, Mikołaj Michalewicz, writes about sending one thousand thalers via "His Grace Lord Mikołaj Michalewicz" (likely a relative with the same name). On p. 3, traces of a wax seal are preserved.