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Maximilian II, King (afterward Emperor): letter


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0096 AL150

Held at: Senate House Library, University of London

Title: Maximilian II, King (afterward Emperor): letter

Date(s): 1562

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 2 leaves

Name of creator(s): Maximilian II | 1527-1576 | Holy Roman Emperor

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Maximilian II was born in Vienna in 1527. He became King of Bohemia in 1562 and King of Hungary in 1563, before succeeding his father, Ferdinand II, as Holy Roman Emperor in 1564. His son, Rudolf II, succeeded him as Emperor on his death in 1576. A Roman Catholic himself, Maximilian was sympathetic towards Lutheranism and worked for peace and religious tolerance.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Letter from Maximilian II of Linz to Bartelme Khevenhüller von Aichelberg, 11 May 1562. Maximilian (as King of Bohemia and Archduke of Austria) requests Khevenhüller's presence in Prague on 15 Jun 1562, for his coronation. Written in another hand and signed by Maximilian.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Latin

System of arrangement:

See hard copy catalogue.

Conditions governing access:

Access to this collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the supervised environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Please contact the University Archivist for details. 24 hours notice is required for research visits.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Typescript catalogue available in the Library's Palaeography Room.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

See archivist

Immediate source of acquisition:

Bound with no 15 of Robert Owen's millennial gazette in a volume of pamphlets - classmark: [G.L.] B.P [Ludlow] 9.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

A photostatic copy and a microfilm copy of the text are held by the University of Viriginia.

Related material:

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Compiled by Anya Turner.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Coronation | Monarchy | Political systems

Personal names
Maximilian II | 1527-1576 | Holy Roman Emperor

Corporate names

Places
Prague | Czechoslovakia | Eastern Europe
Europe