15461214HAM00
1546, December 14
[Hamburg]
[Hamburg] to Otto Stigsson, governor of Iceland: relate how on the Althing last year, it was decided that fishes should be traded per piece, and not by weight, and that the Hamburg merchants in western Iceland have complained about this, because the fishes are so small there.
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 bifolio
21x31,5cm
Paper
Large water stains on the right side
Modern foliation in pencil, 52-53
Draft
Low German
Facsimile not (yet) available