Translation / modern text
Innocent, Bishop, Servant of the Servants of God, to his venerable brother Mikołaj, Archbishop of Lwów [or inscription above the text: Mikołaj ... Bishop of Wenden].
Greetings and apostolic blessing. The customary benevolence of the Apostolic See, so that any detriment to a person [relating] to cathedral and metropolitan churches, incurred at a given time, may not hinder [...], but that those to be promoted to them may preside over them with a pure heart and sincere conscience, prudently applies appropriate [measures], as is fitting. Since, therefore, We today, releasing you from the bond by which you were bound to the church of Wenden, which you have hitherto led, by the advice of Our brothers and by the fullness of apostolic power, have translated you to the church of Lwów, currently in a certain way deprived of the comfort of a shepherd, by similar advice and apostolic authority, and intend to establish you therein as archbishop and shepherd. We, so that—if by chance you were bound by any sentences, censures, and ecclesiastical penalties—that translation and establishment could not under any pretext be considered invalid, do absolve you from any decrees, suspensions, and interdicts, and other ecclesiastical sentences, censures, and penalties, if you were in any way bound by them, solely for the purpose of the effect of the aforementioned translation and establishment for you and for the individual apostolic letters to be drawn up in this matter, so that they may achieve their effect, by the aforementioned authority by virtue of this letter, and we declare that you are absolved. Notwithstanding any ecclesiastical constitutions and ordinances, and the piety of the said church, oath, apostolic confirmation, or any other statutes and customs confirmed by any other power to the contrary, whatsoever they may be. Therefore, it is not permitted for any man to violate this charter of Our absolution and declaration, or to oppose it with rash intent. If anyone should dare to attempt this, let him know that he will incur the indignation of Almighty God and of the blessed Peter and Paul, His apostles. Given in Rome, at Saint Mary Major, in the Year of the Lord's Incarnation one thousand six hundred and forty-five, on the day before the Ides of June [June 12], in the first year of Our pontificate.
[Below the text on the left:]
S. Theoli[?] magister
[Another hand:] E. Damantinus[?] pro rescribendo
[On the right on the fold:]
adour [?]
[Dorsale:]
Of Mikołaj, Bishop of Wenden, translated to the see of Lwów as its archbishop by Innocent X. Year 1645.
[In another hand:] L. 22. N. 6
[Archival signature in a frame:] L.XXII. / 4.
[Signatures / curial chancery annotations, among others:] C. Bottas[?] by the master, I. Ghaller[?], A. Placentia, censor
Original wording — transcription
INNOCENTIUS [E]p[iscop]us Servus Servor[um] D[e]i Venerabili fratri Nicolao archiep[iscop]o Leopoldien[si] [vel inscriptio supra textum: Nicolao ... ep[iscop]o Venden[si]]
Sal[u]t[em] et ap[os]t[oli]cam b[ene]d[icti]o[ne]m. Ap[ostoli]cae sedis consueta clementia ne dispendio p[er]sonam de Cathedralib[us] et Metropolitan[is] eccl[esi]is pro temp[o]re facto p[ro]vint quominus impugnan[tur?] sed persone ad eas promovende illis puro corde et sincera consc[i]e[nti]a presidere valeant provida prout convenit adhibet opportuna. Cum itaq[ue] nos hodie te a vinculo quo eccl[esi]e Venden[si] cui tunc preeras tenebaris de fr[atr]um nostror[um] consilio et ap[ostoli]cae potestatis plenitudine absolventes ad ecclesiam Leopoldien[sem] ad p[rae]sens certo modo pastoris solatio destitutam de s[imi]li consilio ap[os]t[oli]ca auct[oritati]s transtulerim[us] teq[ue] illi in archiep[iscop]um et pastorem p[rae]ficere intendamus. Nos ne si forsan aliquibus sententiis censuris et poenis eccl[esi]asticis ligatus sis translatio et p[rae]fectio h[ujus]m[od]i possint p[rae]textu aliquo invalidae reputari te a quibusvis decretis suspensionibus et interdictis aliisq[ue] eccl[esi]asticis sententiis censuris et poenis si quibus quomolibet innodatus exis ad eff[ect]um duntaxat d[ic]t[ae] translationis et p[rae]fectionis p[ro] te ac singulis l[itte]ris ap[ostoli]cis d[e]sup[er] conficiendis suum sortiantur eff[ec]tum d[ic]ta auct[orita]te tenore p[rae]sentium absolvim[us] et absolutum fore nuntiamus. Non obstantib[us] constitutionibus et ordinationibus eccl[esi]asticis ac d[ic]tae ecclesie devotione et juramento confirmatio[n]e ap[ostoli]ca vel quavis firmitate alia roboratis, statutis et consuetudinibus contrariis quibuscumq[ue]. Nulli ergo omnino hominum liceat hanc paginam n[ost]rae absolutionis et nunciationis infringere vel ei ausu temerario contraire. Si quis autem hoc attentare p[rae]sumpserit indignationem o[mni]p[o]tentis Dei ac beator[um] Petri et Pauli ap[osto]lor[um] eius se noverit incursurum. Dat[um] Romae apud Sanctam Mariam Maiorem Anno Incarnationis Dominicae Millesimo sexcentesimo quadragesimo quinto, Pridie Id[us] Junii, Pontificatus n[ost]ri Anno Primo.
[Pod tekstem z lewej:]
S. Theoli[?] mag[iste]r
[Inna ręka:] E. Damantinus[?] p[ro] R[escriben]d[o]
[Z prawej na plice:]
adour [?]
[Verso:]
Nicolai Ep[iscop]i Vendensis a[d] sedem Leopoldien[sem] pro [eiusdem?] archiepiscopo translati per Innocentium Decimum. Anno 1645.
[Inną ręką:] L. 22. N. 6
[Sygnatura archiwalna w ramce:] L.XXII. / 4.
[Podpisy / adnotacje kancelaryjne kurialne, m.in.:] C. Bottas[?] p[er] mag[ist]r[um], I. Ghaller[?], A. Placentia Censor
