Translation / modern text
[P. 2]
[To the Honorable Sir] kindness [...] service [...]
Here [...] from Várad you may see the letter of Mr. Klobusiczky; what everyone writes, you may see. Regarding the letter of the Palatine, please prepare a response and send the draft to [us]; it would not hurt if you perhaps consulted with the lower German officers [...] from Örömmend, whom we [...] immediately; and those schemes towards [...], if [...] it is possible to hinder, it could bring inconvenience. Please ask the Palatine about this in other words, that nothing from what is with us [...], as His Majesty wished for its requisition,
[P. 3]
and we would send [...] proof [...] with certainty, what [...] you knew; His Majesty great [...] that which they conveyed. [...] what he writes about Michał Palka, you see; it would be good to know, [for whom] it was towards Arany [...], we [...] need secret[...] [...] secret not you alone[...] [...] may plot, if [...] [...]
Ajton, December 27, 1617.
[...] servant
György Rákóczi
[P. 4, dorsal annotation:]
December 28.
Original wording — transcription
[S. 2]
[Vram] keg[yelme]t szolgalattya k[...]
Itt az fában had[?] Váradrúl
Klobusiczky ur levelét láthattya
ki mit ír azt láthattya Kg[e]d
Palatinus ur levelére választ
csináljon és concept[umot] küldy[ön] Kg[e]d
után[unk] nem ártana mitalám
alá való némmeti tisztekkel
konferálnának n. m. k.
örömmendbéliekkel kikre mi
us. g. töb. azt mingyárt, és az
of[...] feli praktikát ha az n[...]
gátolhatio tyuik hozhat alkal-
matlanságot, ezt más szóllás[sal?]
k[e]rd Kgd Palatinus urn[ak] azt
semmi nálunk levőt meny[...] mert
mi requisitioját ő Kgde kiváná
[S. 3]
és küldtük volna jó eg[ész] calamius[?]
fogja t. m. k. ity bizonyság fol[?]
bizomost melyet t. m. kul[...]
voltúl tiud; ő kgy M. nagy[...]
amit üzenik volt. Ruház k[...]
mit ír Palka Mihály felől láttya
kg[e]d, jó volna azt tudni [kinek]
val[ó] volt az Arani felé[...]
mi n. k. kell titko[...] [...]
titkot n[em] kgdnek maga[...] [...]
praktikálhat ő ha ala[...] [...]
Ayton. Decemb[ris] 27 d. 1617.
[...] servitor
György Rákóczi
[S. 4, adnotacja grzbietowa:]
28. Xbris.
Reading notes
Page 1 contains the CPAHU inventory card. Page 5 is a 20th-century handwritten Ukrainian register/translation of the letter attached to the unit (as f. 3), prepared by an archivist (with a pencil gloss questioning the identification of 'György Rákóczi the Elder'). The letter is in Hungarian with elements of chancery Latin (conceptum, requisitio, Palatinus). The right edge of the page on p. 3 is torn with loss of text. Page 4 contains only the date of receipt/annotation: '28. Xbris.' [December 28].