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15660330BRE00
1566, March 30
Bremen
Bremen merchants with Kummerwage and Bodenstede to Joachim Hinck, dean of the Bremen cathedral chapter: ask for mediation to keep sailing to the harbours Kummerwage and Bodenstede in Iceland, which have recently been given to Danish merchants, but were used for over 70 years by Bremen merchants, and for which ships have already been prepared.
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.
K1
Copenhagen, Rigsarkivet
Særligt stillede landskaber og unionsriger: D 11 Island og Færøerne, Pakke 25 (Supplement II, no. 15)
One bifolio.
21,5x32cm
Paper
Modern foliation in pencil, 17.
One seal disappeared.
High German
This letter contains a paragraph about Peter Boleke and Sweden, which is absent in K2. Otherwise, both letters are identical.
K2
Copenhagen, Rigsarkivet
Særligt stillede landskaber og unionsriger: D 11 Island og Færøerne, Pakke 25 (Supplement II, no. 15)
One bifolio.
21,5x32cm
Paper
. Light water stains.
Modern foliation in pencil, 20.
Seal has disappeared, leaving a hole in the paper where it was cut off.
High German
Icelandic summary in Diplomatarium Islandicum 14:336 (no transcript)