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FILES
TOWN AND LAND
AS A RESULT OF THE FOUNDATION
late Aleksandra count. Stadnicki
PUBLISHED BY THE EFFORTS OF THE GALICIAN NATIONAL DEPARTMENT.
T O M X
IN LVIV
MAIN STORE IN THE SEYFARTH AND TCHAIKOVSKY BOOKSTORE.
from L UNION PRINTING OFFICE.
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PREFACE.
The national archive of town and land acts contains, among others, 959 volumes of town acts and 313 volumes of land acts in Lviv, the latter, unfortunately, usually in a very sad condition. These 1,272 volumes contain a huge number of referenced documents. There is no way these documents would ever be published in their entirety, they would take up several dozen volumes alone. As things stand today, they are almost inaccessible to the scientific world, because finding any of them in this forest of acts is too difficult and who knows what exactly can be found in these oblates, and yet they contain material that is very valuable and usually unknown to the historian. Therefore, it is worth making the path to it easier for researchers. There is only one way: to briefly announce the content of these documents; but here too, if such a publication is not to become too large, certain limitations must be adhered to. Therefore, when announcing such a list in this volume, we adhered to the following three principles.
First, we present each regest in the most concise form possible, because we do not want to replace the content of the document, but only to draw attention to it and indicate a place where everyone can easily find it.
Until the end of the 16th century, we provide the content of all royal and private oblates, with the exception of only quotations, which may have significance only in connection with the procedural acts themselves and seem to have no effect isolated from them.
From the beginning of the 17th century to 1680, we treat the royal oblates in the same way as before, and from the private ones we only present a selection of the more valuable and interesting ones, either because of their content or because of the people from whom they come. We adhere to this principle in the case of private documents until the end.
As for royal documents, we omit all nominations of ushers from 1680 onwards, because from then on, these nominations more and more often come only from a larger or smaller chancellery, and not from the king himself, although they were issued in his name, so the date of such a document cannot even be used to determine the royal itinerary. Since the beginning of the 18th century, we have finally abandoned all vices, moratoriums except one (no. 6735) and safe conducts, or safety lists, also except one (no. 7244).
Despite such exclusions and limitations, this volume contains 7,446 issues, which means much more than 7,500 documents, because we sometimes downloaded several documents with the same content and the same date to one issue. This material is important and interesting for many reasons and only now accessible to the scientific world.
As to the authenticity of these documents, with the exception of the first few issues of a questionable nature (number one is, as everyone will recognize at first glance, an undoubted forgery), their reliability will not arouse any suspicions. It is surprising that, with such great freedom of circulation, so few counterfeit documents were introduced into the files. However, all too often, especially since the 17th century, these offerings were entered with great carelessness. Too often, the copyist did not pay attention to the accuracy of the date, carelessly giving a false date or the Christian era. or the year of the monarch's reign, although the original was dated as far as possible. We noticed and corrected many such errors, but more than one error of this kind escaped our attention and, despite all our efforts, was included in this list.
We did not want the index of this volume, so rich in names of people and places, to take up too much space, we could not apply to it the principles that we followed when arranging the indexes of previous volumes, and above all, we could not give each personage separately under their godfather name, family name and the titles they held. Here we name each personage only by their family name, adding to them all the dignities with which they appear in this volume.
Despite so many limitations and despite the small and small print, this volume has grown to almost twice the size of a regular volume, but for this - we flatter ourselves - it will bring even richer results for science.
In Lviv in May 1884
On behalf of the publishing house:
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List of Oblates included in the records of the city and the Lviv land.