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H-Romania Special request: Letter to Mihai Viteazul (Michael the Brave) in Filitti (ed.) 'Din arhivele Vaticanului'. volume 2 (1914), page 71. Discussion published by Daniel Bamford on Friday, November 27, 2015 Dear All, Please would somebody help me out by sending me a scanned copy of the following document? It is an Italian language letter from the English ambassador in Constantinople, Edward Barton to Prince Mihai of Wallachia (Michael the Brave / Mihai Viteazul) written and sent in 1597. It was published by Ioan Constantin Filitti in 'Din arhivele Vaticanului', vol. 2 (Bucuresti, 1914), page 71. I have been able to locate three copies of this book by online library catalogue searches: Bucharest (Bucuresti), Padua (Padova) and New York. There are none in Britain - not even the British Library or the Bodleian in Oxford. (The BnF in Paris only has volume 1 of the two volume set). Here are the details. 1. Biblioteca Centrală Universitară „Carol I” , Bucureşti [Bucharest]. Shelfmark: UNITATEA CENTRALA 43503. Barcode: C20059927. http://cacheprod.bcub.ro/webopac/FullBB.csp?ExtraInfo=&SearchTerm1=&SearchT1=&Index1=Uin dex04&ItemNr=&Database=2&SearchMethod=Find_1&OpacLanguage=eng&Profile=Default&Requ estId=844329_6&PageType=FullBB&PreviousList=FullBB&NumberToRetrieve=50&WebAction=Sav eSelection&RecordNumber=1&StartValue=1&SaveListInfo=General_844329_Dummy 2. Università di Padova - Biblioteca di Scienze dell'Educazione (CIPE) - University of Padua – Education Science Library (CIPE). http://catalogo.unipd.it/F/?func=find-b&find_code=OCL&request=ocolc876308660 3. New York Public Library System http://catalog.nypl.org/record=b13467975~S1 As some of you may be aware, the relationship between Edward Barton and Prince Mihai has been known for a long time and is mentioned, for example, in Nicolae Iorga's book on 'Anglo-Roumanian Citation: Daniel Bamford. Special request: Letter to Mihai Viteazul (Michael the Brave) in Filitti (ed.) 'Din arhivele Vaticanului'. volume 2 (1914), page 71.. H-Romania. 11-27-2015. https://networks.h-net.org/node/7941/discussions/98753/special-request-letter-mihai-viteazul-michael-brave-filitti-ed-din Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 1 H-Romania Relations' (1931). However, the direct evidence is sparse and fragmentary. I have already discovered several previously unstudied and unpublished letters during my research on Barton, so it would be a shame to miss this one letter published 101 years ago! My research funding ran out years ago, so there is no chance of a trip to Bucharest for one letter! So, any help from anyone in Bucharest, Padua or New York would therefore be greatly appreciated. Yours faithfully, Daniel Bamford. https://st-andrews.academia.edu/DanielBamford Citation: Daniel Bamford. Special request: Letter to Mihai Viteazul (Michael the Brave) in Filitti (ed.) 'Din arhivele Vaticanului'. volume 2 (1914), page 71.. H-Romania. 11-27-2015. https://networks.h-net.org/node/7941/discussions/98753/special-request-letter-mihai-viteazul-michael-brave-filitti-ed-din Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 2.

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