Kasza Péter (szerk.): Stephanus Brodericus - Epistulae (Bibliotheca Scriptorum Medii Recentisque Aevorum, Series Nova XIV., Argumentum Kiadó - Magyar Országos Levéltár, Budapest, 2012)
1531
On the hack side: Magnifico domino Thomae Nadasdino thesaurario regio, domino uti filio carissimo et honorandissimo 138 Piotr Toinicki to István Brodarics Radlow, [3] August 15311 Manuscript used: BN T. 13. fol. 4lr-v2 Published: Acta Tomiciana XIII. 252-253. King Sigismund had talks with Laski and Ferdinand's envoy Siegmund Herberstein about issues concerning keeping the one-veur armistice. He tried to quieten the row over castles occupied in Transylvania during the armistice without arbitrating, but he was unsuccessful in this. And had he favoured any side, he would have offended one of the Princes and that would have made it impossible for him to encourage them to seek agreement which is his firm intention. Brodarics. too, should persuade King John that Sigismunds every decision is made in order to create peace. Jan Clayski, Sigismund s envoy will report on the rest. Reverendissime in Christo Pater et Domine Frater et Amice Honorandissime. Cum nuper esset Cracoviae magnificus dominus Hieronimus de Lasko, vayewoda Transsilvanus, affuissetque etiam orator serenissimi domini Romanorum regis, dominus Sigismundus de Herbestain,3 maiestas domini mei plurima cum ipsis egit, quae ad 5 rationes annalium indutiarum conservandarum opportuna ac necessaria videbantur. Tentavit etiam a longe, an controversiam de munitionibus in Transsilvania sub interstitio trimestrium et annalium indutiarum interceptis transigere extra iudicium arbitrale inter se potuisset. Quod tamen cum frustra tentasset, tulit ipsa sententiam, quam et aequitati proximiorem et praesentium temporum calamitati magis utilem fore agno- io scebat, uti ex scripto istuc ad serenissimum dominum Hungáriáé regem misso 5 post videbantur dei. Egit 10 post agnoscebat dei. Nam v 1 The day does not appear in the original draft, only its placeholder is left blank. Sometimes, in later manuscripts, “in Augusto” appears. Presumably publishers of Acta Tomiciana misread in for III. Tomicki, however, wrote three other letters with similar subjects from Radlow: one to Ferenc Frangepán, one to István Werbőczy, and one to János Statileo. There is no date on the one to Statileo, while on manuscripts for the other two there is 3 August (see BN T. 13. 32r, 33r), so it is quite probable that the letters with the same subject were written on the same day, the 3rd. 2 Further manuscripts: BJ 6552 fol. 654-655; BK 216 fol. 115r-v; BK 227 fol. 105v-106r; BCzart 266 fol. 235-237; BN 1414 fol. 117 v— 118r; BCzart TN 46. fol. 685-686. 3 Siegmund Freiherr von Herberstein (1486—1566), Austrian diplomat and historian, originally from Krajina. Studied at the university of Vienna and entered the service of the Habsburgs afterwards. As a diplomat, he travelled all around Europe, visited Turkey and the Grand Duchy of Moscow several times. His most famous work is about his experiences as a legate in Moscow printed in 1549: Rerum Moscoviticarum commentarii. It was the first comprehensive report on the conditions and history of the country that the West had had little knowledge about. More on his life and activities: Gerhard Pkerschy (hg.): Siegmund von Herberstein. Kaiser- licher Gesandter und Begründer der Russlandkunde und die europaische Diplomatic, Graz, 1989. 272
