15390206LUB00

1539, February 5

[Lübeck]

Lübeck to Hamburg: in response to a complaint of the Lübeck Iceland merchant Hermen Vurborn and his shipowners about Hamburg merchants, it is requested that the Hamburg merchants in Iceland will respect the free trade there by merchants from other cities.

Created for and published on the HANSdoc website of the German Maritime Museum, Bremerhaven, by Bart Holterman in the context of the research project Between the North Sea and the Norwegian Sea: interdisciplinary Studies of the Hanse. Licensed CC BY.

Hamburg, Staatsarchiv der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg

111-1 (Senat), Cl. VII Lit. Kc No. 11, vol. 2 (Islandica 1535-1560)

One folio

22,5x34cm

Parchment

Parchment dirty and mouldy on the outside

Modern foliation in pencil, 22

Final version

Low German

Intercessio senatu Lub(icensis) ad sen(atu) Hamb(orgense) pro Harmen Vurboen Lübsch Ißlandsfahrer contra Hamb(urgische) Ißlandsfahrer and contra Yßlandesfarer and Anno 1539

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Den erberen unnd wysen herenn burgermesteren unnd rathmannen tho Hamborg unsern besunderen gunstigen unnd gudenn frunden.

Unsere frunthlichen groth bevorn, erberen wyse heren besunder gunstige unnd guden frunde, wes de redere schippers Hermen Vurborn, schepes, sich aver ethliche juwer er. wt. burgere in Islanth zegelende dhon boclagen, werden juwe er. wt. uth ohrer, her inne vorslatener supplication,1 vornhemen dewile den, de segelation in Ißlant, so wol den unsern, alss anderen frig yst und derhalven wy ock, de unsern, darhenne segelende, daran, ock sunsth, in ohrer hanterunge, up (de)m lande ungerne vorletzet segen. Szo wolden wy fruntlich bogert hebben, juwe er. wt. de ohren, der byllicheit, daranne borichten willen, darmith den unsern in ohrer bylligen handelunge und copmanschop, aldar up deme lande, keyne meher hinderunge geschen moge, dan alse den juwen, alhir by uns, bogegeneth, also, dath allenthalven leve unnd fruntschop, moge underholden werden. Solchs kegen juwe er. wt., der anthworde wy wedderumb bogeren, thovordenen vynth men uns allewege guthwillig. Schreven under unserm secret(o) am dage Agathe virginis2 anno etc. XXXIX.

Burgermestere unnd rathmanne der stadt Lubegk.

Transcript by Bart Holterman, 2017.