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492 PATRICIA KENNEDY GRIMSTEDIn this volume, as in several others in the series, there is no formal titlepage, but the first—and also apparently a second—folio is missing. Thusthe text begins immediately, and an initial document may be missing. (Itseems that the formal title pages of volumes having them were later additions,probably from the time of Hankiewicz.) 15An added title is inscribed on the volume's cover; like titles for othervolumes in the series, it identifies the volume as a "Book of Ruthenian(ruskich) Affairs" under Sigismund III that came from the Crown vicechanceryof Feliks Kryski, kept by the clerk, or scribe (pisarz; Ruthenian,pysar), Jan Marcinkiewicz. 16 Feliks Szczesny Kryski (1562-1618) served asvice-chancellor of the Kingdom of Poland from 1609 until 1613, when hebecame chancellor. 17Actually, two clerks (or scribes) were responsible for the volume, sincethe first twelve folios contain ten documents prepared by OleksandrKrupets'kyi (Pol. Aleksander Krupecki), dating from 17 February through24 July 1609. 18 The entries signed by Jan Marcinkiewicz start with the date16 October 1609 (fol. 14) and continue through 3 December 1612, the finaldocument at the end of the volume. 19 One additional document in Polish,which technically should have been included in the main inscription booksof the Crown Metrica, appears in this volume on folio 13. This is a chartersion of the National Library in Warsaw. It was in this catalogue, while searching for othermanuscripts, that I found the listing "Xsiegi spraw Ruskich K.I.M.," which first aroused myinterest and suspicions about the volume in question. A microfilm of the volume is available inthe Microform Division of the National Library in Warsaw, no. 3486.15This definitely appears to be the case with the Latin titles now found in many of thevolumes. For example, the volume currently numbered 216 (earlier no. X.D.-26/27; MK308), dating from 1576-1584, has the Latin title page (now fol. I) "Liber decretorem palatinatinumKyoviae Volhyniae Braslaviae et Czerniechoviae..." (although Chernihiv did not exist asa separate palatinate before 1631), apparently added in the early eighteenth century, and thefragment of an earlier title (on a restored folio [now fol. II]).16"Xiegi spraw rvskich K.I.M. Zigmvnta III za iasnie wielmoznego Sczesnego Kriskiegopodkanclerzego koronnego przes lana Marcinkiewicza, 1609-1612."17See the essay by Jarema Maciszewski in Polski Siownik Biograficzny (hereafter, PSB)15:482-85.18Oleksandr Oleksovych Krupets'kyi (Pol. Aleksander Oleksowicz Krupecki; ca. 1570-1652), a nobleman from Volhynia, served as pysar in the chancery of Sigismund III until 1609,when he was granted the bishopric of Przemysl (Peremyshl') (15.IX.1609), succeeding the lastOrthodox bishop. He took orders in the Uniate Church in 1610 (his religious name wasAtanazy), and initiated a period of religious controversy for the bishopric. See the essay byHalina Kowalska in PSB 15:406-407.19There is no entry for Marcinkiewicz in PSB, and I have been unable to locate biographicaldata elsewhere. A contingent volume of the Crown Metrica contains a document that grantshim the royal village of Lomzyca in the district of Lomza (AGAD, MK 153, fol. 474-474v).Although all but one of the documents are in Ruthenian, Marcinkiewicz signs his name in Polishin Latin letters; hence, I use the Polish form.