Der Handel Rigas im 17. Jahrhundert und seine wissenschaftliche Erforschung am Slawischen Institut (Prag) in den 1930er Jahren.
Riga’s Trade of 17th Century and Its Scientific Research in Prague’s Slavonic Institute in 1930s.

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the history of the research of the «Ordinance of Moscow trade court in Riga» of 1663. A copy of the Ordinance was revealed by the Russian emigrant, historian of law, M. V. Šachmatov in Riga’s municipal historical archives in 1932. He investigated a great corps of unpublished old Russian documents (Moscovitica Ruthenica) and worked as a research assistant in the archives within the bounds of his archaeographical Baltic expedition financed by the Slavonic Institute in Prague. In 2008 the authors of this article worked at Šachmatov’s Baltic expedition and revealed a second copy of the Ordinance in the State historical archives in Riga. Inserted to the article there are the reconstructed German text of the «Ordinance of Moscow trade court in Riga» with an old German glossary, and the facsimile of the second copy of the Ordinance, the facsimile of a letter of Riga’s municipal historical archives of 1932 concerning Šachmatov’s work there.

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