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DOCUMENTSA Missing Volume of the Ruthenian Metrica:Crown Chancery Documents for Ukrainian Lands, 1609-1612,from the Kornik Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences*Patricia Kennedy GrimstedThe first known formal inventory of the Crown Metrica—the record booksfor outgoing official documents of the royal chancery of the Kingdom ofPoland—was prepared in 1673. It lists volumes returned from Sweden in1664 that had been taken from the Royal Castle in Warsaw during theSwedish invasion of 1655.' The 1673 inventory was prepared by StefanHankiewicz (d. before 1704), then the Crown Metrykant, that is, the chanceryofficial in charge of the Crown Metrica. 2 Hankiewicz listed a separateMy research in Poland for this article was carried out while I was an exchange scholar at theInstitute of History of Warsaw University under the auspices of the academic exchange programoperated by the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX). I am exceedinglygrateful to IREX for making possible this research visit, as well as subsequent research visits inthe USSR, where I had the opportunity to compare the related manuscript volumes in Moscow.I thank the Kornik Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and particularly its director,Professor Jerzy Wistocki, for arranging my visit and facilitating my research. I also benefitedfrom the resources of the Main Archive of Early Acts in Warsaw (Archiwum Glowne AktDawnych w Warszawie-hereafter AGAD) and the Central State Archive of Early Acts(Tsentral'nyi gosudarstvennyi arkhiv drevnykh aktov - hereafter, TsGADA) in Moscow, andthe assistance of the staff in both these institutions.This article owes much to the advice and assistance of Dr. Irena Sutkowska-Kurasiowa ofthe Institute of History (PAN) in Warsaw. A summary of its contents was presented at myseminar at the Institute of History (PAN) in Warsaw in December 1986. Again I am grateful toIREX for a travel grant supporting my visit to Poland at that time, during which I was able toverify the final text.1An earlier list (dating from 1627) of metrica books from the main chancery is to be found ina contemporary inscription book of the Crown Metrica; see fn. 50 below.2"Inwentarz ksiijg w Metrice Koronney oboiey to iest w wielkiey y w matey beda.cych. . . ."Following a page-and-a-half introduction, there is an added Latin title, "Synopsis seu connotatiovariorum librorum vulgo Metrica Regni dictorum, decreta, inscriptiones, privilegia, legationes,lustrationes in se continentium. . .et per Suecos. . .tempore incursionis receptorum, exSuecia vero in Regnum Poloniae vigore pactorum Olivensium restitutorum. . .notariatu g-si d-ni Stephani Casimiri Hankiewic S. R. M-tis secretarii.. .accuratissime et diligentissime collectaet ad ordinem reducta ac notis alphabeticis et numero signata. ..." Biblioteka OssolineumPAN (Wroclaw), MS 137 (36 fols.). The only extant seventeenth-century copy of this inven-