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132/1/504 · 504-001

Partly legible letter to an unidentified recipient

Unidentified from the reading; the signature on PDF p. 2 is illegible. Unidentified. The address leaf on PDF p. 3 begins “To the Most Illustrious Lord ... Benefactor”; the remaining titles and surname are only partly legible.

The surviving letter is addressed to a Most Illustrious Benefactor. The handwriting is very difficult to read in places. Visible fragments suggest requests and matters concerning correspondence and actions taken for the recipient, but the details cannot be reconstructed with confidence. The external address leaf preserves a formal form of address, while the surname and titles remain uncertain. The inventory card records that the unit was begun on 8 October 1697; this was not treated as the letter date. The note on the letter does not permit a reliable date reading.

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Translation / modern text

The letter is addressed to a Most Illustrious Benefactor. Because of the difficult handwriting, neither the main content nor the signature can be reliably reconstructed. The external leaf preserves the beginning of the address and its formal title, while the remaining titles and surname are uncertain. The inventory card’s date for the beginning of the unit (8 October 1697) is not the letter date; the letter’s date has not been established.

Original wording — transcription

[PDF s. 2, początek listu:] Jaśnie Wielmożny Mciwy Dobrodzieju, [tekst rękopisu w większości nieczytelny; widoczne są pojedyncze słowa i zwroty, których nie można połączyć w pewny ciągły odczyt.] [Na dole po lewej: «P.S.»; dalszy tekst postscriptum jest częściowo nieczytelny.] [Zakończenie i podpis nieczytelne.] [PDF s. 3, zewnętrzna karta adresowa:] Jaśnie Wielmożnemu Imci Panu [nieczytelne określenia tytułu i nazwisko] Dobrodziejowi ... [Pozostały zapis adresowy częściowo nieczytelny.]

Reading notes

The unit comprises three scanned pages. PDF p. 1 is an inventory card bearing “Pочато: 8 жовтня 1697 р.” (begun 8 October 1697) and mentioning two sheets; this is archival information. PDF p. 2 contains one letter. PDF p. 3 is an external address leaf with a seal, not a separate letter. A faint note appears at the top of p. 2, but it was not read confidently enough to assign a date. Date and place are therefore null.

Scope of the edition: Working, partial reading and translation. Most of the text is marked as illegible rather than supplied by conjecture.

ekstrakcja: 2026-10-15

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