| Administrative History | David Chytraeus (David Kochhafe) 1530 - 1600, evangelical theologian, student of Martin Luther of Phillip Melanchthon; Professor of Theology at the University of Rostock, Germany
Daniel Rogers 1538-1591 diplomat and author |
| Description | Chytraeus is writing in respose to Rogers's request for information on Polish affairs, and gives an account of eatern European matters, mentioning the Crimean Tartars, Turks, Russians, Swedes, Baltic nations and others. Eight pages in clear Humanist hand. Latin, with phrase in Greek.
Dated Rhodopoli , instantibus Genethliis Filii Dei ordientibus annum 1591 (Rostock, on the first day of the nativity of the Son of God introducing the year 1591)
At end in large letters: M.V. Reuerenter colens Dauid Chytraeus
Endorsed:
1. by Beale: 25 Dec. 1590 David Chytraeus ad D. Rogerum
2. later hand (as elsewhere): A letter from Doctor Chytraeus to Mr Beal, giving him an account of some skirmishs betwixt the King of Poland and the Turk &c. |