Fulfilling the wish of prof. Liske and caused by cbcciij; dissemination of less available scientific materials, I was obliged to prepare for the 7th volume of City and Land Acts of the curator, originating from the hospodars of the Moldavian and Multan lands, and currently located in the archive of the city of Lviv, for which they were once issued.
These documents have already drawn the attention of the scientific world several times. This was done primarily by Dyonizy Zubrzycki in the Chronicle of the City of Lviv and, recognizing their importance, he even provided extensive extracts from them. Zubrzycki's example was then followed by B. P. Hażdeu (in Romanian: Hasdeu) -), who, as an excellent expert on matters important for Romanian history, personally came to Lviv to look for these documents and, having copied them, printed them in a collection entitled: Archiva istorica a RonianieT etc, CoUectiune critica de documente assupra trecutuluT, Bucuresci, 18G5. But Hazhdeu's edition, although it covers almost all the more important documents ^) that we are currently talking about, and fully meets the requirements of criticism and accuracy of the
') Chronicle of the city of Lviv (Lviv 1844) pp. 7.5—76, 97, 101, 109, 113, 11.5.
^) These documents are also mentioned by the Moravian historiographer, Fr. Beda Dudik, in the Archives of the Kingdom of Italy and Vladimir (Die Archive im Konigr. Galizien u. Lodom., aus dem XXXIX B. des Archiyes f. osterr. Ge8chichtsquellen besoaders abgedruckt. Wien 1867), on pp. 132-133, and assistant professor at the University of Odessa, A. Koczubiński, in a report on his activities in the field of Slavic dialectology (OTqeTX o 3aH<iTiaxi ciaB. HapiiiaMa, I13T. XVIII T. SanucoKi. iimh. HOBopocc. yuiiEepoiiTCTa, Odecoa, 1876), on pp. 22-23. However, after reviewing this information, I found out that Prince B. Dudik did not have a proper idea of the things he wrote about (he could not even distinguish Raultian and Moldavian princes and, for example, he also calls Prince Vlad a Moldavian hospodar, and Prince Mircha is indeed a Multan prince "Mircha Fiirst Multanski", but his seal is Moldavian!!), and Mr. A. Koczubiński, not having been granted access to the archives of the city of Lviv, limited himself only to recording what he encountered in Zubrzycki's extracts, or in the monuments of the diplomatic and judicial Ruthenian language, published by Gołowacki. My own tips about these and many other Moldovan documents found in Lviv. in the Review of Slavic-Ruthenian monuments of language and literature (OOsopi tiasaHOpyccKiixi iiaMHTHUKOEi, MMKa II niicŁsia, uasoa. bt, apx. ii 6nf>.i. jiłbobckuxi., E. I. Ka.iyyKHauKoro, Kiesi, 1877, on pp. 63, 64 and 108.
') And in particular according to the edition of this document No. *I, No. *1I, No. *V, No. *VIII, No. ♦X, No. *XU, No. *XIV.
leographic, has this one. the inconvenience that it cannot be accessible to those who do not know the Romanian language, nor understandable properly to those who are not familiar with the geography and political statistics of Romanians. Therefore, there was nothing left but, according to Prof.'s wishes. Liske, publish them once again in a collection, as complete as possible and provided with explanations, enabling the use of these documents by anyone interested in the history of the "Moldavian and Multau lands".