selenak: (Obsession by Eirena)
selenak ([personal profile] selenak) wrote in [personal profile] cahn 2020-01-17 03:27 pm (UTC)

Re: Brotherly Conduct I: The Prelude

"Nach Abschrift der Cabinetskanzlei," "Nach Aufzeichnung des Cabinetssecretärs"

Now that's another thing. This to me sounds indicating that what Preuss had at his disposal were copies of the original letters - whoever wrote these - , because the archive system demanded each letter to and from the king be copied. "Abschrift" = copy.

"Der Zusatz" = The addition; "Der Zusatz de la main propre du roi" - the addition in the King's own hand.

"Eigenhändig": in his own hand.

Ausfertigung in this context: probably clean copy following a draft. I.e. the draft might have had abandoned sentences, changed phrases etc., but it was never sent and destroyed after the clean copy was made.

This being said, I think the political correspondance letters to Heinrich - since a lot of these letters contain key military information during the war and political dynamite like the Poland negotiations or Swedish politics in peace - might have been in cyphre, then decoded into a clean copy for the archive, so I bet a secretary is involved. (Not so much when Fritz is just talking philosophy or history in the 1780s, of course.)

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