Autograph letter signed [manuscript].

Nuremberg, 18 April 1585.

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Text in Latin

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Corsini archive (Christies Robson Lowe 4 September 1984)

Germany.

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Purchase made possible by The Albert H. and Shirley Small Acquisitions Endowment Fund. From dealer's description: "1. [RESCHIUS, Christophorus.] [Autograph notarial letter drawn up on behalf of Mattheus Spinola and Martinus Adler, merchants in Nuremberg, requesting and authorising Bartolomeo Corsini in London to retrieve, on their behalf, monies owed to them by John Born senior and John Born junior of London.] Nuremberg, 18 April 1585. Autograph manuscript signed, ink on paper. Folio (21 x 33cm) [3] pages on bifolium, in Latin, p. [3] with circular ink-stamped notarial seal of Resch & manuscript endorsement by the city council of Nuremberg with related embossed paper wafer seal, edges uncut, old folds, very good. A rare example of an Elizabethan Anglo-continental mercantile contract, this notarial letter was drawn up 18 April 1585 by Christophorus Reschius, a Tyrolean notary resident in Nuremberg, on behalf of two merchants based in the city, Mattheus Spinola of Bologna and Martinus Adler of Munich.They request and authorise the prominent London-based Florentine merchant Bartolomeo Corsini (1545-1613) to retrieve, on their behalf, monies owed to them by John Born senior and John Born junior, London cloth merchants with mercantile connections in Nuremberg. Extending to the confiscation of goods and property if necessary, mention is made that the debt collection be effected without recourse to lawyers, commissioners or other authorities. The large notarial woodcut ink stamp of Reschius, incorporating an image of a horse, is imprinted at the end of the text. An ink endorsement by the council of the Nuremberg attesting to the integrity of Reschius is accompanied by an embossed paper wafer seal of the city. Provenance: Corsini archive (dispersed Christies Robson Lowe, 1984-1988)." Ordered from Samuel Gedge, D9420, 2020-11-23, Cat. 30 item #1.

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