Letter from de Martin to the PF vice-prefect [Luigi Capponi], 1647-07-17, Tunis

Title

Letter from de Martin to the PF vice-prefect [Luigi Capponi], 1647-07-17, Tunis

Subject

Tunis
Slave priests
Bizerte

Description

Letter from the French consul in Tunis to Cardinal Capponi, attesting that the package of letters from the Levant, which Julien Guérin is sending to PF were all open (except for three of them), when Guérin received them from a slave priest who had obtained them from a Maur, who said he had found them on the road from Bizerte.
Additional comments

Creator

de Martin

Source

APF SOCG 64, 253r, 276v

Date

1647-07-17

Contributor

Addressed to [Luigi Capponi]

Relation

The found letters were not filed in this volume, but the note from Guérin, which accompanied them, is a few folios down: APF SOCG 64, 259r, 270v, (database item 131).

Format

Original; signed; letter in French; PF notes in Italian.

Language

French
Italian

Type

Letter

Identifier

129

Coverage

Origin: Tunis
Destination: Rome

Citation

de Martin, “Letter from de Martin to the PF vice-prefect [Luigi Capponi], 1647-07-17, Tunis,” Early Modern Documents: Sources and Resources for Historical Research, accessed March 28, 2024, https://earlymoderndocs.omeka.net/items/show/13741.