15501201NYB00

1550, December 1

Nyborg

King Christian III of Denmark to Hamburg: has received their complaints about what happened on Iceland last summer, and asked the governor and the Copenhagen merchants for a reaction, but accuses the Hamburg merchants of having stayed in winter, and violating Copenhagen property.

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

20,5x32,5cm

Paper

Water damage on the bottom half of the document, paper worn with many small holes on the second folio

Modern foliation in pencil, 89

Seal pressed on the paper

High German

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