16021127HAM00

1602, November 27

Hamburg

Hamburg to king Christian IV of Denmark: request for a copy of the license for the harbour Walforde in Iceland on behalf of Heinrich Gerbrandt, Paul Focke, Michael Brautigam, Claus Makebusch, Johan Rentzel, Tonies Rode and Heinrich Smidt, after Rode and Smidt lost the license in 1601 during a shipwreck on the way back from Iceland, at which occasion skipper Joachim Greve died.

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.

Copenhagen, Rigsarkivet

Særligt stillede landskaber og unionsriger: D 11 Island og Færøerne, Pakke 27 (Supplement II, no. 19)

One bifolio.

19,5x33,5cm

Paper

Seal fallen off, but still extant.

Final version

High German

On the back: Hamburgensium literae, atti maa faa en vidiß aff dem paß de forhuerffuede paa Hualfiord paa Island, anno 1600 Martini dag daterett. Efftherdi den same paß er bleffuen tul siøeß. Reddita Haf(niae) 12 decemb(ris) anno 1602. Hafniae.