[Letter from Edward IV to Maximilian, Duke of Austria and Burgundy regarding a case of piracy against English subjects.]
Title
[Letter from Edward IV to Maximilian, Duke of Austria and Burgundy regarding a case of piracy against English subjects.]
Alternative Title
Full title: [Letter from Edward IV to Maximilian, Duke of Austria and Burgundy regarding a case of piracy against English subjects.]
Creator
Edward 1442-1483,
Publisher
London? : publisher not identified
Date
10 February 1479.
Format
1 sheet ; 24 x 38 cm.
Description
Letter, 25 lines, written with brown ink in chancery hand, large initial "E" with calligraphic flourishing, tag for seal cut out from lower border and with very fragmentary private seal of Edward IV in red wax.
Endorsement on verso: "Lettre du Roy d'angleterre Edouard 4. par lesquelles il declare la perte qui avait e?te? faite sur un vaisseau appartenang a quelques officiers de sa maison et qui avait e?te? pris en pleine mer par les contes de Nassau et Romont contre la liberte du commerce. le 10e fevrier 1479."
"Phillipps MS 9967 (213)"--verso.
Endorsement on verso: "Lettre du Roy d'angleterre Edouard 4. par lesquelles il declare la perte qui avait e?te? faite sur un vaisseau appartenang a quelques officiers de sa maison et qui avait e?te? pris en pleine mer par les contes de Nassau et Romont contre la liberte du commerce. le 10e fevrier 1479."
"Phillipps MS 9967 (213)"--verso.
Provenance
Purchased on the Schulich-Woolf fund from Bernard Quaritch Ltd. Catalogue 1434 (2016), no. 58.
Contributor
Maximilian, I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1459-1519, recipient.
Schulich-Woolf Collection.
Schulich-Woolf Collection.
Language
English
Identifier
Flat Folio Dated 1479 .E39
Collection
Citation
Edward 1442-1483,, “[Letter from Edward IV to Maximilian, Duke of Austria and Burgundy regarding a case of piracy against English subjects.],” Schulich-Woolf Rare Book Collection, accessed April 25, 2024, https://schulichwoolf.omeka.net/items/show/248.