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    1. Minimum_Rice555 on

      I can make out a few words but that’s it – it looks „Kurrent“, the previous form of handwriting that was replaced by modern handwriting almost 100 years ago.

    3. tufoop5 on

      It does not even look like Kurrent but more like the way they used to write in the middle ages…

    4. halokiwi on

      Have you checked if someone has already made a transcript of this text?

      If it is printed in a book, it should be known well enough for someone to have made a transcript, maybe even a translation.

      Do you know where this text is from/what it is?

    5. LeadingPhilosopher81 on

      Made with AI:

      To the high-born Prince and Lord, Lord
      Joachim, Margrave of Brandenburg, etc., our most gracious Lord
      In the year of our Lord 1523, on the 7th day of September

      Whereas misunderstandings and grievances between the common citizens and inhabitants of the city of Cölln on the Spree on the one part, and the honorable Council of the city of Cölln on the other part, have arisen and been agitated, which by
      Council, councillors, and the entire community, our gracious Lord has
      overlooked and entered.

      Firstly, that all disputes concerning taxes, interest, and other burdens that the community had against the Council shall cease and no longer
      be practiced. And it shall generally henceforth not be compensated.

      Item, if anyone henceforth attacks a councilman or other servant of the Council with
      words or deeds, or strikes, throws, or pushes them,
      so that they are hindered in their office and can no longer
      exercise it, then a judge, who has been appointed within four weeks,
      and as a result of obedience, shall be held before
      disobedience, through which the four weeks
      shall not be, and it shall be settled.

    6. frandukie31 on

      I’m not sure if this is Modern High German, It looks like Middle High or even Old High German

    9. icrbact on

      I was curious so literally just copy pasted your picture into ChatGPT (obviously no guarantee that it is 100% correct):

      Transcription:

      Dem durchleuchtigen hochgebornen fuͤrsten
      und herrn Marggrafen zu Brandenburg
      Thum zu Magdeburg und Churfuͤrsten
      1522, dem gnedigen und guͤnstigen herrn,
      Albrecht Römischer kayserlicher Maiestät
      Cardinal Bischoff zu Halberstadt
      und Administrant des Erzstifts Magdeburg,
      meinem gnädigen herrn.

      Nach dem ich etzliche underthanen ewer
      Gnaden des amptes Wolmirstedt onlangst
      inhalen und ansprechen lassen, wie das sie
      durch den grossen druckh der steuer und
      auflagen fast beschwert und ersetzet,
      und auch die guͤter vil abkomen und geringe
      worden, haben sie mit underthenigem
      fleiss und bitten sich gegen mir ercläret,
      das dieselben steuern und auflagen so
      hoch und beschwerlich weren, das sie solche
      in gemain nit mehr ertragen moͤchten.

      Translation:

      To the illustrious and high-born prince
      and lord, Margrave of Brandenburg,
      Archbishop of Magdeburg and Elector,
      in the year 1522, to my gracious and favorable lord,
      Albrecht, Cardinal of the Holy Roman Emperor’s Majesty,
      Bishop of Halberstadt
      and Administrator of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg,
      my gracious lord.

      Since I have recently summoned and spoken with several of Your Grace’s subjects
      from the district of Wolmirstedt,
      they have declared to me with humble diligence and petition
      that they are greatly burdened and afflicted
      by the heavy pressure of taxes and levies,
      and that their goods and estates have much diminished and become poor.

      Therefore they have most humbly expressed to me
      that these taxes and levies are so high and grievous
      that, in common, they can no longer endure them.

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