Kasza Péter (szerk.): Stephanus Brodericus - Epistulae (Bibliotheca Scriptorum Medii Recentisque Aevorum, Series Nova XIV., Argumentum Kiadó - Magyar Országos Levéltár, Budapest, 2012)

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huius sacrae maiestatis, domini mei clementissimi4 proficiscens5 commiserat suis, ut post se mitterent quosdam camelos ultra illos, quos secum duxerat. Quos quidem nunc per hominem suum proprium missuri sunt sui factores. Rogo, ut Vestra Dominatio efficiat apud istam sacram augustam maiestatem, scilicet dominum meum clementis- simum,6 ut velit7 homini huiusmodi cum camelis8 ituro litteras passus sive salvum suum conductum dare pro securiore eorum per provincias et dominia sacrae maiestatis conductione. Quod nos ambo cum domino episcopo Statilio primum suae maiestati, postea Vestrae etiam Dominationi reservire studebimus. Quam et recte valere opto. Cui me totum trado.

Vaciae 30. lunii 1539.

Vestrae Dominationi deditissimus Stephanus Brodaricus episcopus Vaciensis subscripsit

On the outer side: Magnifico domino Georgio Gengh iuris utriusque doctori, Sacrae Augustae Maiestatis Romanorum etc. vicecancellario et consiliario, domino et amico praecipuo. Fiat, ut petitur ex consilio regis 4ta lulii 1539.

5 post proprium dei est 18 Fiat ... 1539 alia manu

4 János Szapolyai.

5 Statileo travelled to Rome in November 1538, then he made a European round trip during which he visited French King Francis as well as Charles V. Szapolyai signed the credential^ to Statileo on 11 November 1538. (See HHStA, Ung. Akt., Fasc. 37. Konv. C, fol. 7.) More on his legation: Fraknői Vilmos, Magyarország egyházi és politikai összeköttetései a római Szent-Székkel /., Budapest, 1903, 50—52.; and Sörös Pongrác, Statileo János életéhez, A pannonhalmi szt. benedekrendi főiskola évkönyve, Pannonhalma, 1916, 46-51.

6 I.e. Ferdinand I. After the Peace of Várad, Brodarics considered Ferdinand also his King, and he referred to him as such in his letters.

7 In the margin, in a different handwriting, it is written: flat: The text on the back side confirms this. It seems then, that Statileo*s man did get the requested salvus conductus.

8 Statileo intended to give the camels to Cardinal Alessandro Famese, who got them and expressed his thanks to the Bishop of Transylvania in a letter dated 19 October 1539. See Sörös Pongrác, Statileo János életéhez, A pannonhalmi szt. benedekrendi főiskola évkönyve, Pannonhalma, 1916, 49.

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