Translation / modern text
Most noble, distinguished, and excellent Gentlemen, esteemed Gentlemen and Colleagues!
I deeply regret that I must still be absent from the town hall and cannot participate in your work for the public good. I will, however, endeavor to arrive as soon as possible to be at your service.
A case is pending with Mr. Podgórski, which requires my presence at the main hearing. I kindly request [your assistance] and the proper safekeeping of the trial records should it come before His Majesty's court. [Further argumentation partially illegible: the author refers to the dues owed to the successors of the late Mr. Żydkiewicz [?] and to something previously accepted in lieu of payment; the parties and the direction of the settlement have not been precisely determined.]
I commend myself to your grace and friendship.
In Buczacz, March 27, 1661.
Your well-wishing colleague and servant,
Jan Attelmaier [?; archival identification: Attelmaier].
[Address:] To the most noble, distinguished, and excellent gentlemen, the mayor and councilors of the royal city of Lwów, esteemed Gentlemen and Colleagues.
Original wording — transcription
Nobilissimi Spectabiles et Clarissimi Domini,
D[omi]ni et Collegae observandissimi.
Wiele tego żałuię że do tąd muszę bydź absens od ratusza że nie mogę do prac pro publicznych WWMMP[anów]. Starać się iednak będę abym iak nayprędzey do Usług WWMMP[anów] przybył. Tu mi idzie o całości prawie większey części [nieodczytane] mego [niepewne]. Zaniech[a?] zdrowcześna [nieodczytane] M[ościwych] [...] bardzo [niepewne] do oddania.
A ze się tam agituie sprawa [niepewne] z WM. P. Podgorskim ktora potrzebuie presencyi moiey ad negotium Principale, wielce upraszam żeby te [stare?] [nieodczytane] legalitates miały miejsce [składnia niepewna]. WM MMP[anów] ad [...], żeby ten Process był dobrze preservowany kiedy przyidzie do Sądu Krola Jego Mci, ponieważ to [niepewne] że Successorom Nieb[ożczyka] P. Żydkiewicza [?] [nieodczytane] należy debetur, a nie tak żeby [nieodczytane] wracać co mu raz iuż przyięt in solutum zaś nieb[ożczyk?] JM P. Podgorski. Ztym się Łasce y aff[ektom] WWMMP[anów] pilnie oddaię. W Buczaczu27 Marty1661.
WWMMP[anów] życzliwy Collega y sługa
Jan Attelmaier [?] mpp.
[Adres:] Nobilissimis Spectabilibus et Clarissimis Dominis Dominis et Collegis Observandissimis Dominis Proconsuli et Consulibus Civitatis Regiae Leopoliensis. [...]
Reading notes
All three pages and text magnification were examined. Partial writing: not a sufficient basis for reconstructing the dispute or inheritance rights. The date stamp was read as Buczacz, March 27, 1661; the location confirms the inventory description. The signed name in its archaic form has not been definitively resolved; the form 'Attelmaier' is an archival identification, not a literal reading of the signature. 'Podgórski' is legible, 'Żydkiewicz' is uncertain. 'In solutum' refers to acceptance in lieu of payment; the object or creditor is not specified because the syntax is uncertain.
Location in scan: 132/1/200, PDF p. 2: letter; p. 3: address; p. 1: cover.
Notes on translation (transferred from text): Here the author explains that it concerns the preservation of almost all or the greater part of his interest/estate; the exact object and the following sentence were not read. Preservation of the meaning of old legal documents? — reading uncertain.
Location in scan: 132/1/200, PDF p. 2: letter; p. 3: address; p. 1: cover.
Notes on translation (transferred from text): Here the author explains that it concerns the preservation of almost all or the greater part of his interest/estate; the exact object and the following sentence were not read. Preservation of the meaning of old legal documents? — reading uncertain.