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The letter contains a merchant’s account listing two quantity-and-price entries. The recorded amounts are 17 × 23 = 391 and 36 × 19 = 684; the underlined total is 1075 (the currency is abbreviated and the reading is uncertain). The goods’ names cannot be read confidently enough to identify them. The sender also refers to earlier correspondence and the settling of an account or delivery; the remaining text is difficult to read. The heading gives Nürnberg, 9 July 1690; the address directs the letter to a merchant in Lemberg.

King Sigismund II Augustus confirms and transumes four privileges granted by kings Casimir Jagiellon and Sigismund I to the shoemakers' guild of the city of Lwów. These concern the limitation of the number of shoemakers in the castle suburb to two masters, the prohibition of practicing the shoemaking craft in noble manors outside the city walls, the rules for the sale of hides by tanners, and the prohibition of purchasing hides before the city gates.