Translation / modern text
[P. 2, address and notes:]
To Monsieur
Monsieur Dupré,
wherever he may be
[numerous accounting calculations around the address]
[P. 2, text of the letter:]
Sir,
His Excellency My Master will make no difficulties in making the exchange of 500 gold ducats with you, but it would be necessary for you to come today with the money to take it for yourself and prevent any change of mind that might occur with the aforementioned His Excellency regarding the use of the ducats for some purchase. Do not delay too much, but
[P. 3]
[at the top of the page, handwritten columns of accounting calculations]
endeavor to speak with Mr. Libowicz, who has the order to pay you the money and who currently manages the court's household. I am in a hurry,
Sir,
Your most humble and most obedient servant
J. C. Magnanini
From the quarters, August 9, 1700
Original wording — transcription
[S. 2, adres i dopiski:]
à Monsieur
Monsieur Dupré
ou il se trouvera
[wokół adresu liczne obliczenia rachunkowe]
[S. 2, tekst listu:]
Monsieur
Son Exc[elle]nce Mon Maître n'aura point difficulté
de vous faire l'echange de 500. Ducats d'or,
mais il seroit necessaire, que vous veniez
aujourdhuij avec l'Argent, pour les apporter
chez vous, et pour prevenir quelq[ue] changem[en]t
qui pourroit arriver, de sa d[i]te Exc[ellen]ce à l'
ocasion d'employer les ducats dans quelque
achat. Ne tardez pas beaucoup, mais
[S. 3]
[u góry strony odręczne słupki obliczeń rachunkowych]
tachez de parler à Mons[ieu]r Libowicz, qui
a l'ordre de vous debourser l'Argent, et
qui est à present celuij, qui a le menage
de la Cour. Je suis en hâte
Monsieur
Votre tres humble et tres obeïss[an]t s[erviteu]r
J. C. Magnanini
de Logis ce 9.[me]
Août 1700
Reading notes
Letter written on a folded sheet of paper (quire); dense accounting notes, either later or contemporary, are visible on the margins and blank spaces (including around the address). In the inventory, the author was misread as 'Маньенен І.' (or 'I. Mangiand'), while the signature clearly reads: 'J. C. Magnanini'; the inventory identifies him as a courtier of the Zamoyski family. The recipient is Monsieur Dupré.