Stockholm, National Archives, Diplomatica Muscovitica, vol. 654. Correspondence and other documentation regarding envoys to Russia

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Copybook with correspondence and other documents relating to the
peace talks between Sweden and Russia mostly in
the 1520s and 1530s.

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Codices Fennici

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1520-1559

I: 1520s-1530s; II: 1550s

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Stockholm, National Archives, Diplomatica Muscovitica, vol. 654. Correspondence and other documentation regarding envoys to Russia

1520s–1530s

, II:

1550s

Finland

Copybook

with correspondence and other documents relating to the peace talks between

Sweden

and

Russia

mostly in the

1520s and 1530s.

I: Copies of various documents concerning Swedish delegations sent to

Russia

and correspondence related to the delegations.

Fol. 1r: Articles concerning the Grand Prince,

1537

[1r]

Thenne ep

articlor wara framsatte i muskouie for storfursten anno mdxxxvij.

Först bleff storfursten helsad ... (

–

are blank).

Fol.

–v A peace treaty (Treaty of Nöteborg) between

Jurij Danielowitsch

and

Magnus Eriksson

1323

; ed. DS 2418.

[3r]

Jach mykle konunghr Jurgher medh ...

[3v]

... han hampnas

Fol.

: Accounts of envoys to

Russia

(with fragments of correspondence),

1510–1523

[4r]

Anno mdx

hogh war Tönne Ericxsson ... mellan Rydzeland och Suerige (

–

are blank)

Fols.

–

: Copies of correspondence between King

Gustav Vasa

and Tsar

Vasilij Ivanovitsch

[6r]

Höchuerhtig högborne förste och herre ...

[7r]

sancte pentecostes anno etc. (followed by a list of demands made) [

–

] (Vasilius's response,

1526

; ed.

FMU 6327

) Biudher jach wasilius ... bliffua staffat. [

–

] (

Gustav

's letter,

1527

) Anno domini mdxxvij Satte högmethtige förste k. göstaff ... här i landit. [

–

] (A reponse received in

1535

)

Anno mdxxxv Gudmund laurensson

... breffuit inholth.

Fols.

–

13r

: On negotiations conducted

1536–1537

Russia

Knut Andersson (Lillie)

and

Björn Klasson (Lejon)

. Written by a third participant from

Viipuri

[9v]

Anno m.d.xxxvij Handlinger i Ryzeland ...

[13r]

... vndantaged mädh och ill. (

13v

is blank).

Fols.

14r

–

16r

: Peace treaty,

1537

[14r]

En copie vpå fridz breffuer giort I noogord Anno 1537

...

[16r]

... Insigle fför thet breff. (

16v

is blank).

Fol.

17r

–v: Copy of the treaty also found on fol.

–v.

Fol.

18r

: On boundaries between Savo and Russia.

[18r]

Item tesse effterscrifna roor är j millan nyslot och Rytzeland ... (

18v

is blank).

Fol.

19r

–v: Another copy of the treaty on fols.

–v and

17r

–v.

Fols.

20r

–

22v

: Two texts on boundaries between

Savo

and

Russia

(

21r

is blank).

II: Copies of various documents mostly related to the peace talks between

Sweden

and

Russia

in the

1550s

Fols.

23r

–

33v

Correspondence

, mostly between King

Gustav I

and Tsar

Ivan

from

1556

[23r]

(Peate treaty of

1323

;

DS 2418

) Ego räx magnus Jörghe ...

[24r]

(Correspondence between King Gustav and Tsar Ivan)

Anno 1556. Ifrån K: mttz.

Till storfursten

. Wij Gustaff medh gudz Nadh ...

[33v]

... förtechnät står förminne.

Fols.

34r

–

51r

: Report of a delegation sent to

Russia

1557

[34r]

Anno domini 1557 then 16 dagh Januarii ...

[51r]

... sydher haffua fridhz. (

51v

is blank.)

Fols.

52r

–

56v

: Copies of supplications addressed to the king by

Jacob Täiter [= Teitti?]

and

Jöran Persson

, and responses by

Jacob Bagge

, and

Andreas Olavi

(in a letter dated to

16 July 1558

[52r]

Jacob Taiter supplicans til K: M: wm nogre articklar emott Hans Larsson ...

[56v]

... wij skulle var wän är. (An unnumbered blank after

56v

Paper

58 + 2 folios.
21cm × 29cm

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ii + VI

+ III

+ 5

; VI

+ (IX–1)

+ III

+ i

An unnumbered modern leaf inserted after fol. 22. Fol. 56 is followed by an unnumbered blank.

XXXXX

Fols. 1–22 and 23–56 may originally stem from different manuscripts. The former section has suffered more damage and is more heterogeneous in its contents than the later section. Fols. 52–56 differ in contents from the rest of the volume, but are written by the same hand as fols. 23–51.

The first section (fols. 1–22) is notably dirtier than the rest of the volume.

One column with a varying number of lines.

I: Fols. 1–22: several hands writing cursives of

saec. XVI

II: Fols. 23–56: probably only one hand writing a cursive of

saec. XVI

with different inks. This hand appears to be the same, which is mainly responsible for the beginning of another of

Gustav Fincke

's copybook,

Uppsala, University Library, Nordin 164

No decoration.

Modern binding of cardboard with white covers. Two modern flyleaves inserted front and one back.

The manuscript contains a

copybook of official correspondence between Russia and Sweden

, reports from envoys sent to Russia and documents concerning the peace treaties. The volume contains two parts: the first includes documents mostly related to the

1520s and 1530s

; the second, documents from the

1550s

. Codicological and palaeographical differences suggest they belong to separate writing campaigns.

The copybook has been associated with

Gustav Fincke

(d. 1566) who in

1555–1557

was responsible for the defence of the eastern border against

Russia

. Fincke's involvement is suggested by the fact that the copybook stems from

Kankas

collection, which held other copybooks securely attached to Fincke by name. The second part of the book may well have been instigated by Fincke, by the date of the material. However, the first part contains documents predating Fincke's career, and must belong to an earlier process.

The copybook stems from the

Kankas

collection, which contained several copybooks with material related to

Gustav Fincke

and his offices. According to a note on the inner front cover, the current volume represents only a part of the original; the remainder is to be found in

Stockholm, National Archives, Kopiesamling, vol. 14

According to a note after fol. 22, the copybooks were taken from

Kankas

to the

Court of Appeals in Turku

1706

. From there, they were later moved to the

National Archives

in Stockholm.

Cataloguer

Ville Walta

Finnish Literature Society (SKS)

Codices Fennici

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