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Lviv Archbishop Jan Dymitr Solikowski allocates episcopal revenues from Kamionka and Busk in perpetuity for the Lviv Chapter to perform annual funeral services for the repose of his soul. This grant was formally approved in 1606 by Archbishop Jan Tarnowski during a deanery visitation.

The writer refers to information from a person in Trembowla and mentions an incomplete settlement/payment by the recipients and a sum due. The text is fragmentary, and the sender and place remain unidentified. The letter is dated 20 July 1705.

The damaged letter preserves the salutation “Wielce Mci Panie” and an incomplete reference to “stanowania Pańskiego.” Losses prevent identification of the subject, sender, full recipient, and date. Page 3 is the address wrapper for the same letter.

Metropolitan of Kiev Michael Rahoza, together with the Ruthenian bishops, announce their accession to unity with the Apostolic See and the conclusion of the union of the Ruthenian Church with the Roman Church in Brest. The document contains the signatures and seals of the hierarchs, as well as later provenance and oblation entries.

King Sigismund III Vasa confirms the privilege of Stephen Báthory from 1576, which transumed the document of Sigismund I the Old from 1533 for the tailors' guild in Lviv. The act regulates the organization of the tailors' brotherhood, fees, master examinations, and protection against non-guild craftsmen.

The letter opens with “Jaśnie Wielmożny Miłościwy Dobrodzieju” and contains fragments concerning law and a matter under discussion. No date, place of writing, or sender is visible in the surviving text.

The writer addresses a dignitary identified as voivode and general of the Ruthenian lands. The text mentions the Baraniniec land and a boundary matter, though details are partly illegible. The date in the upper margin is 4 January 1703.

A document by King Sigismund III Vasa establishing and approving uniform rates for duties collected by the Lwów magistrate on imported Greek, Malmsey, Hungarian, Moravian, and Dalmatian wines. Modeling the regulations on Kraków privileges, the monarch allocates these revenues to the maintenance of the municipal office and specifies penalties for non-compliance.

The Lviv councilors limit the number of members of the clothiers' guild to twenty, exclusively of the Catholic faith, establishing a requirement of city citizenship for the admission of a new master. They further commit to approving internal guild statutes and resolving unsettled disputes among guild brothers.

The letter recommends a matter concerning a citizen of Lwów returning from Padua after obtaining a doctorate in medicine. Fragments of the text and the exterior address to the magistracy of Lwów survive; no date was read.

R. Koryciński addresses the Lviv councillors. The letter mentions an order and a condition that something be returned to the writer; details of the settlement are illegible. It is dated at Słoboda on 5 April 1639.

King Sigismund III Vasa permits Stanisław Tatarzyn, a convert to Catholicism, to transfer land held for life under Lion Mountain to the Benedictine convent in Lviv. The monarch approves this cession and exempts the land granted to the convent from the annual rent previously paid to the Lviv castle.

King Sigismund III Vasa confirms the ancient privilege of King Casimir Jagiellon guaranteeing Lviv an annual fair on Saint Agnes' Day, along with freedom of trade for arriving merchants. At the same time, the monarch cancels and abolishes the fair on Saint Margaret's Day as burdensome and useless to the townspeople.

The writer addresses the Lviv councillors, refers to a letter from a deputy, and mentions military affairs or a camp. Details are partly illegible. The letter is dated 7 July 1667; the place in the dateline is uncertain.

King Sigismund III Vasa confirms the former privileges granted to the marksmen of the city of Lviv by his predecessors, Kings Sigismund Augustus and Henry of Valois.

King Sigismund III Vasa clarifies the privilege of Stefan Batory, specifying the rules for cloth trade, the retailing of alcoholic beverages, and the limit of permitted Armenian craftsmen in Lwów. The document confirms the rights of both nations to trade, setting the framework for Armenian tailoring, tavern-keeping, and craft activities under penalty of a fine.

A German-language merchant’s letter from Naumburg to Arthur Forbes. It concerns financial matters and refers to amounts and accounts; the accounting details cannot be reconstructed with confidence. The inventory card attributes the letter to Paweł Korfinius. The letter’s own dateline gives 4 February 1694.

A letter dated at Lwów on 10 June 1684 and addressed to recipients in Lwów. The Latin heading and some text fragments survive; the remaining passages need further reading.

King Sigismund III Vasa settles a dispute between the municipal authorities and the Armenian community in Lviv, setting the limit of hereditary Armenian houses at seventy-three, excluding church buildings and the hospital from this count. He further orders the Armenians to sell back houses located at the Market Square and a stall to Catholics within one year in exchange for the return of the invested sums, prohibiting them from further transactions within the Market Square area.

Jan Dymitr Solikowski, Archbishop of Lviv, together with the cathedral chapter, grants his brother Wojciech Solikowski the life-long use of a mill, a pond, and the labor services of subjects in Siemikowce. In return, the recipient is obliged to maintain the facilities in proper condition and continue serving the Church.

The letter opens with “Jaśnie Wielmożny Miłościwy Panie, Panie i Dobrodzieju”. Fragments referring to an enclosed letter and to Kłodzienice and Lublin survive. No date was read from the letter text.

Lviv Archbishop Jan Dymitr Solikowski approves the statutes and liturgical order of the College of Mansionaries of the Lviv Metropolitan Church, defining their liturgical duties, rules of communal life, and penalties for misconduct. He also grants them the right to enact further regulations in consultation with the ordinary.

Jerzy of Goraj Czuryło and his wife Zofia cede the mill in the village of Hodwisznia, along with land and income, to Nastka, widow of the miller Iwaszko Bury, for the sum of 400 Polish zlotys. They reserve the right to redeem and reclaim the mill if necessary upon repayment of the aforementioned sum, while simultaneously exempting the miller from most burdens.

The writer addresses the recipients as “Lords and Brothers” and mentions an order and dispatch of a letter or post; details are illegible. The letter is dated 8 March 1743 in Warsaw.

The three-page letter to a captain reflects on Poland, freedom, the common good, and the homeland, and includes an appeal or request; details are partly illegible. The dateline on the first page gives 4 May 1794 and mentions a camp whose location cannot be read with confidence. The writer signs with the surname Wosiłło; the given name is illegible.

Archbishop of Lviv Jan Dymitr Solikowski approves the statute and order of Christian funerals and services for the deceased poor at the Holy Spirit Hospital in Lviv. The document regulates prayers, alms contributions, the storage of liturgical equipment, the priest's remuneration, and grants members of the brotherhood forty days of indulgence annually.

Pope Clement VIII notifies the inhabitants of the city and diocese of Lviv of the transfer of the Bishop of Chełm, Jan Zamoyski, to the vacant archiepiscopal see in Lviv. He commands the faithful to receive the new hierarch as their father and shepherd of souls, showing him due respect and obedience.

A three-page letter dated 26 June 1786, opening with “Jaśnie Wielmożny Miłościwy Panie y Dobrodzieju”. The text is partly damaged and illegible; the address panel on p. 5 belongs to the same document.

Pope Clement VIII notifies the cathedral chapter in Lviv of the transfer of the Bishop of Philippopolis, Jan, to the archiepiscopal see of Lviv, vacated after the death of Archbishop Jan Dymitr. He orders the canons to show the new ordinary full obedience and reverence under penalty of ecclesiastical sanctions against the disobedient.

King Sigismund III Vasa confirms the statute and articles of the furriers' guild in the town of Stary Sambor.

The writer addresses “Noble Lords and Dear Friends” and discusses the city’s rights and privileges. The text includes the Latin phrases “de Favorabilitate” and “de manutentione jurium & Privilegiorum”; the following argument concerns the city’s interests and their resolution. The inventory card associates the letter with the Lviv magistracy. The closing dateline gives Lublin, 18 May 1738.

A letter dated 1 July 1734, referring to a universal sent from Lwów. The salutation “Jaśnie Wielce Mości Panowie y Bracia” survives; the place of writing is read uncertainly as Brudna.

Lviv Archbishop Jan Zamoyski approves the new foundation of a prebend for the sixth mansionary at the Lviv Cathedral, established by the apothecary Maciej Jaslikowski and his wife Marta, née Pajączek. The mansionary's endowment was secured on half of the Pajączek tenement house in Lviv with a sum of 400 Polish zlotys, providing an annual perpetual rent (wyderkaf) of 24 zlotys.

The writer addresses the English letter to merchant Arthur Forbes in Lviv. The surviving text mentions a received message, an amount in pounds, and a payment involving Lviv, but details are partly illegible. The letter is dated 23 June 1692; the place in the heading is uncertain.

King Sigismund III Vasa incorporates the provostry in Busk into the office of the archdeacon, renewed at the Lviv cathedral, in order to provide it with proper endowment. At the same time, the monarch renounces the royal right of patronage over this provostry in favor of the Archbishop and the Lviv Chapter.

Apostolic Nuncio Claudio Rangoni, by papal authority, approves the act of Archbishop Jan Zamoyski establishing the dignity of Archdeacon at the Lviv Cathedral and incorporating the Provostry in Busk into it. He also confirms the appointment of the first Archdeacon, Doctor of Theology Tomasz Pirawski, to this office.

Adam Hieronim Sieniawski, Crown Cup-bearer and Starosta of Jaworów, issues a privilege for the inhabitants of the Adamówka suburb in Brzeżany. Due to significant damage and blackening of the parchment, the detailed content of the grants remains illegible.

The document confirms the ordinance of the Surgeons' Guild in Lviv, which was reformed and supplemented by the municipal authorities in 1611. King Sigismund III Vasa approves the submitted guild articles regulating, among other things, professional practice, master examinations, and the functioning of the brotherhood.

A letter from Bodzechyn, dated in February 1575; the day is uncertain. The writer addresses “Jaśnie Wielmożnych Panów i Braci” and asks for a payment and assistance. The address panel on p. 3 directs the letter to the recipients in Lwów.

The Lviv Metropolitan Chapter approves an arbitration award settling a dispute between the college of cathedral vicars and the carpenter Melchior Terszowicz regarding the Stawińskie plot near the Krakow Gate in Lviv. The document grants the vicars superior ownership and Terszowicz the right of emphyteusis in exchange for an annual rent and an obligation to build two houses.

King Sigismund III Vasa confirms to the Mikulicz brothers, burghers of Halych, the rights to a share of a mill on the Lipa River belonging to the Halych starosta district, received by virtue of a previous grant from the late Voivode Stanisław Włodek.