') Prince Alexander, surnamed the Good, began his reign according to the chronicle of Gregory Urekia (in Romanian: Urechia) in 1399 and reigned (Ob. Latopisy of the Moldavian land = Letopisitile terrel MoldoveI, ed. M. Cogalnicenu. Ja)?T, 1852. vol. I. pag. 103 et 107) 32 years and 8 months, i.e. from 1399 to 1432; according to Engel, Gesch. d. ungr. Reiches u. s. Nebenl. IV. 2. 115., from 1401 to 1432.
^) This document has already appeared in print several times: for the first time, but only in a summary, in the lyronica of the city of Lviv Zubrzycki, pp. 74-76; the second time in the Acts relating to Western history. Rossy i (Aktbi oth. ki iioTopiii aan. Poocih, Ct. IleTepO. 1846). vol. L p. 30 sqq.; for the third time in Monuments, a diploma and the court Russian language (IlaMflTHnKn AniiJioMaTH^e- CKoro H cyAeÓHO - AiJioBoro asBiKa pyocKoro Bt ApeB. TajniłKO-BOJOAnM. KHaacecTBi h Bt CMeacHŁix'Ł pycc. oójiacTHKi. ct. XIV - XV ctoji.) ed. by Gołowacki in the Scientific Sbornik halickorus. Matyka for 1866, vol. I, No. XXVIII; the fourth time, but only in the Romanian translation, in the Hazhdeua Historical Archives (Aixhiva istorica a Romanie! etc.) 1. 1., p. 130 sqq.; and finally, for the fifth time - with some mistakes, of course - in the Bukovina calendar, ed. by the Russian Besida in Chernivtsi in 1877, pp. 90-95. However, considering that Prince Alexander's document is the basis for all subsequent Moldovan documents issued here, we are printing it once again and we are of the opinion that experts will not hold it against us. We would like to mention, however, that not having found the original privilege in the Iwów archive and not knowing where it could be currently located, we (with the exception of punctuation and a few sketches) followed Gołowacki's editing, in the belief that this editing, although not entirely accurate, is always even better and retains the characteristic features of the original much more faithfully than the archaeographer's editing. Petersburg commission. Gołowacki missed the mark only insofar as he allowed himself to correct shortcuts and fill in the spelling inaccuracies of the original, without making them visible in a more or less appropriate way.
— these words in the Romanian translation by Hażdeu (Archiva istorica l. c.) seem to have been overlooked.
^) Tf/UKAH-k - in Files relating to lists. zacli. Rossyi 1. c, printed incorrectly
[fragment illegible in the scan of the first edition]
*) Ot-k cto OKHHHhi cBpjHHKiH - explains Hażdeu in Archiva istorica I. 130. by: delia 100 piei crud de óia = from 100 sheep skins and raw materials, i.e. undressed. But it seems to us that this translation is not entirely correct, because the word cs^paHHUH cannot be derived from Old Words. c-kipii, C'K!p'KiH = in Russian ctipBifizz in Polish, raw, but rather from Romanian surrz in Polish, grey, greyish; ot-k cto obmhhki cSpaHHUH - means: from a hundred sheep's skin of a gray or grayish color.
") Suceava, also Soceva, from the rum. Soceva, once the first capital of Moldova, today a district town in Bukovina, located on the river Suceava, a branch of the Seret.
*) It means the same as Turkish goods, or more precisely: goods coming from countries belonging to the then Turkish state.
®) liamchy, singular KamcharrTurkish and Persian Kamcha, Modern Greek. wtjjiouy^ac etc. (Ob. Miklosicza, die Fremdwórter in d. slav. Sprachen, Wien 1867, page 23), means various types of silk fabric, used especially for church chasubles, and often also for secular clothes, as Gołembiowski testifies in the work: Ubiory w Polsce, Warszawa 1830, p. 184 sqq.
®) Tebenki, sometimes tebinki, is also a word of foreign origin (however, it is not present in Miklosicz 1st c.) and means, according to Linde, Słownik Język polskiego, ed. 2., Lviv 1859., vol. ¥.606. more expensive pieces of leather, used especially to decorate the saddle, and not silk fabrics, as Hazhdeu supposes in Archiva istorica I. 130.
*jjj.!a|j.a (Ob. Miklosicza, Lexic. palaeoslov. pag. 1170; Daniczyca, Rjećnik, III. 291 and many others) means eastern incense in general.
") Kantar = Romanian cantare, Latin centenarium (Ob. Miklosicza, Fremdwórter, pag. 24; Daniczyca, Rjećnik I. 438; Yuka Karadzica, Lexicon 2G2, and others) still means to this day either the entire scale, which can weigh up to 100 pounds or more, or one centnar; in the present case, the word kantar means the same as centnar.
'-) Białygród, in Romanian. Cetatea Alba, {in Turkish Ak-kerman - is a city located on the Dniester Bay, on its right bank, and currently belongs to Russia, or more precisely - to Russian Bessarabia.
'■^) Tygina, also Tyginikacz (TAPAHAKAH-h, Ttrm-kKfM-h), currently Bender, lies on the lower course of the Dniester, on the right bank of it, opposite Tiraspol.