Letter signed. To Andreas Kronberger, tax collector at Freiburg(?).

1 leaf (text 1/2 p.). With address on verso. Folio. Dresden, 22 March, (15)70. Augustus announces that his council will arrive at the abbey of St. George near Naumburg (Saale) on the second Sunday after Easter ("Misericordias domini") and that they will stay for a while. There is a shortage of veal, fowls, eggs, fish and other cooked foods (Kuchenspeise), as our "Schosser" at the abbey had informed him. He wishes Kronberger to help the latter to provide all this. The address reads: "Unserm Schosser zu Freiburgh unnd liben getreuen Andres Kronbergern"; endorsement: "Bestellung der kuchen speiss Ins Closter S Gorgen", with autograph signature "Augustus". The letter is written from Dresden, Freiberg is not far west of Dresden, but some way from Naumburg. There is a smaller place, Freyburg, near Naumburg. The abbey of Naumburg was suppressed and taken over by Johann Friedrich of Saxony earlier in the 16th century. Augustus the Pious, elector from 1553-86, was one of the best domestic rulers the country ever had; he devoted his long reign to the development of its resources. The signature on this letter is autograph (cf. examples in British Library Dept. of MSS., Cotton MS Galba B. XI, f. 376b and Add. MS. 21522, f. 92). - Remains of seal and ties, browned, a few stains, small pieces of margins missing. AUTOGRAPHS ; HISTORY (KULTURGESCHICHTE) ;

Anno di pubblicazione: 22 March, (15)70