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turks, to inform about Wallachia, by mister Wargalowschi, penman in the
employment of Constantin Cantemir”, on 10 th of September 1700 35 .
After only a few days, on 14 th /24 th of September 1700, Antioh
Cantemir was replaced by Constantin Duca, who was followed on the chair
by Mihai racoviţă (1703–1705), constantin cantemir’s son-in-law. during
this time, in transylvannia, at ocna Sibiului in 1703 the book written by
Dimitrie Cantemir, Divan or the Quarrel of the Wise Man with the World
(iaşi, 1698) was copied for the first time; we know about 17 copies in
manuscript spread on the entire romanian territory 36 .
In “1705 February 13 rd , there was the end of the reign of the great
lover of God and loving and kind Prince ioan Mihail racoviţă voivode,
prince and owner of all Moldavia and Wallachia. his coming back should
be done, our lord Christ, by the prayers of our patriarch priest hrisostom
the patriarch, as soon as possible and in an enchanting way”. the scrap
was done on volume III of the Works of John Chrysostom (eton, 1612),
who belonged to the Three hierarchs Monastery in iaşi, the prospective
wrongdoer was cursed by Prince Michael racoviţă. on the 4 th of March
1705, church singer parthenie from the putna monastery wrote on Leastviţă,
manuscript (1472), from putna monastery “to be known «...» ever since the
prince changed of Mihail voivode” 37 racoviţă with Antioh cantemir.
During this reign, on 7 th of February 1706 Antiochie Jora high
chancellor gave an odion to a monastery called Măgarul. Another famous
historical character at the time, the great official savin, called smucilă,
the founder of Banu church from Iasi, appears in the notes from 1706 as
he endowed his creation: on the 1 st of March 1706, a Tipic, manuscript
(1641), which “savin, high official, gave it to my church in ieşi”. răzmiriţi
Brah captain of the guards buys an Apostol (Buzău, 1704), and he gives it
to the monastery Nicoriţă in iasi, where his parents were buried. dania is
reinforced with awful curses. on the 2 nd of April 1706, Savin high official
buys and donates his church and a Gospel sl. (lwow, 1691). on the 7 th of
june 1706, intendent Pătraşco costin noted his ownership on The Polish
Chronicle, after Ştefan Pădure had tied the covers. on the 17 th of August
1706, Ghiorghii Abăza monks from the holy Metropolitan church bought a
Testament (Bucharest, 1703) with 4 coins. on the 30 th of november 1706,
in the village of Vama, county of Suceava, the priest made an inventory of
all the books and precious objects from that church, writing on a Sbornic,
13 books. It was also around that time when priest niculae gives an
35 Ibidem, p. 356 - 357.
36 iliEŞ, AdAM, Divanul, p. 1004.
37 cAProŞu, chiABuru, Notes on manuscripts and old books, p. 376.