Translation / modern text
Distinguished Sirs, Brothers and most esteemed Friends!
We greet you cordially and wish you from the bottom of our hearts the most successful conduct of affairs.
Yesterday we received your letter written on January 4 in Warsaw. We understood from it what difficulties you have begun to encounter in matters [reading detail uncertain], and especially due to the actions of Mr. Paczek, who promised us goodwill. Since it is happening otherwise, each of us and you can easily guess for what purpose he is acting this way. We ask, however, that you conduct this matter to the end so that we may free ourselves from this action of Mr. Paczek and similar claims.
In this matter, we have already spoken sufficiently [fragment uncertain]; our clerk participated in it. It should not be neglected either, if you deem it appropriate. We are also sending you [document name uncertain] regarding the goods and a letter.
He is to give you seventy zlotys in cash.
We ask that you do not abandon these matters before their conclusion [further words uncertain] and do not allow them to come to nothing or suffer damage. We trust that thanks to your prudence, even if this letter finds you already on your way, you will prevent all this and look after the matters with care. We commend ourselves to you and wish to see you in good health along with all your retinue.
Given in Lviv on January 14, 1591.
Your brothers and friends, the councilors of the city of Lviv.
[Address:] To the distinguished gentlemen Stanisław Anserinus and Stanisław Dybowicki, Doctor of Medicine, councilors of the city of Lviv, our most esteemed and dearest Lords and Brothers.
Original wording — transcription
Spectabiles D[omi]ni Confratres et Amici plurimum honorandi.
Salutem plurimam et felicissimum rerum gerendarum successum SS. V[est]ris ex animo optamus.
Dnia wczoraiszego oddany nam iest list od WM. pisany 4. Januarij Varsoviae, s ktorego wyrozumieliśmy iakie WM. mieć poczęli in sede [odczyt niepewny] sprawach SS. kłopoty a osobliwie na te instantię czym P. Pacek, ktory się nam obiecował łaskawym po łasce, co iż inaczey się dzieie, łacno się każdy z nas i z WM. domyślić może, quo id consilio fiat. Jednak prosimy WM. raczcie WM. tak tę sprawę popierać do końca, iako byśmy od tei instantie P. Paczka et eius similibus wolnemi być mogli.
Wszak w tei sprawie dosyć et saltem ie oznaymiliśmy się, w czym wszytkim zawsze bywał P. Pisarz nasz [w radzie?], i owszem dobrze by nie zaniedbywać owei [kilka słów niepewnych] do Krola JMci, ieśliby się WMciom to zdało. Posyłamy WM. też [niepewna nazwa dokumentu] materialia [?] do towarow należący, przy tym list od nieb[oszcz]ki [?] M[arii?] [nazwisko nieodczytane] żony, ktoreśmy Paczku naszemu poszły do Krola J.Mci [fragment klauzuli procesowej nieodczytany] towarów do [nieodczytane] od JM [...]. To WM raczcie [...] o tym, że 4 [...] WMciom [...] przez [...] naszego [...] Marcina, ktory ma WM. oddać gotowych pieniędzy fl. 70.
Prosimy WMciow nie raczcie WM. do końca [pozostałych słów tego zwrotu nie odczytano], sprawy tak opusczać, ktore im WM [niepewne] mieć, iako by się wniwecz abo nie obróciło, abo nie oporciło [odczyt niepewny], rozumieiąc to o WMci, że pro sua prudentia, ieśliby ten list nasz WM. na drodze zastał, temu wszytkiemu zabieżeć i opatrzyć czule raczycie. Zalecamy się zatem [...] WMci, życząc sobie tego [niepewne], abyśmy WMciów dobrze zdrowych ze wszytką WM. czeladzią oglądali.
Dat. Leopoli 14. Januarij A[nn]o 1591.
S[pectabilium] D[ominationum] V[estra]rum Confratres et amici. Coss. Civitatis Leopoliens[is].
[Postscriptum:] [Odczyt częściowy:] [...] tegoż roku [...] dnia [...] P. Przemysław [odczyt imienia niepewny] [...] Podsędek [...] po [...] [nieodczytane]. Interim D[e]um et [nieodczytane] SS. VV. valere cupimus.
[Adres:] Spectabilibus DD. Stanislao Anserino et Stanislao Dibovicio Medicinae Doctori, Consulibus Civitatis Leopoliens[is], Dominis Confratribus plurimum honorandis et charissimis.
Reading notes
All three pages were viewed, and p. 2 also in magnification. This is a deliberately partial translation: especially the middle of the letter and the postscript require improvement. The inventory description was not used to fill these gaps. 70 was marked in the source with the abbreviation 'fl.'; rendered as zlotys, without modern conversion. The addressee's name Dibovicius was Polonized as Dybowicki; the Latin form remains in the transcription. Warsaw results from the dating of the previous letter cited in the content, not from the preserved address. The letter of January 4 and the mentioned attachments do not appear separately in this three-page PDF.
Location in scan: 132/1/189, PDF p. 2: letter and postscript; p. 3: address; p. 1: cover.
Notes on the translation (transferred from the text): unread: action regarding the petition to the king. A woman whose name and surname have not been established with certainty. A further clause regarding the trial, goods, and sending letters to the king requires reading. In the further fragment, there is mention of handing over money by Marcin, our clerk's servant. The postscript has not been sufficiently read; there is a mention of the sub-judge and wishes for health.
Location in scan: 132/1/189, PDF p. 2: letter and postscript; p. 3: address; p. 1: cover.
Notes on the translation (transferred from the text): unread: action regarding the petition to the king. A woman whose name and surname have not been established with certainty. A further clause regarding the trial, goods, and sending letters to the king requires reading. In the further fragment, there is mention of handing over money by Marcin, our clerk's servant. The postscript has not been sufficiently read; there is a mention of the sub-judge and wishes for health.