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A MISSING VOLUME OF THE RUTHENIAN METRICA 493granting Krupets'kyi the bishopric of Przemysl (PeremyshF) (15.IX. 1609),signed by Jan Kuczborski, who was pisarz for other Latin books in theCrown chancery. 20The two different watermarks in the paper in the volume correspond tothe two different scribes, which suggests that their sections were initiallyseparate fascicles later bound together. The first twelve folios are on contemporarypaper of Austrian origin from the paper-mill of Hans Eiseler inWels-Schwiesen, which operated between 1599 and 1619. 21 The paper offolios 13 through 61 can not yet be conclusively identified, but the watermarkappears closest to a Silesian paper with the three lilies of Nysa (Ger.Neise) from the early seventeenth century. 22There are conclusive reasons to consider this volume a part of theRuthenian series: (1) the exact resemblance of its documentary contents tothe other volumes in that series; (2) the overlap in chancery personnelresponsible for it; (3) its completion of a gap in the series, in terms of thechronological sequence of documents; (4) its physical resemblance to adjacentvolumes in the Ruthenian series and other volumes of the CrownMetrica.The documents inscribed in the volume all conform to the type andnature of documents to be found in other volumes of the Ruthenian series. 23Of the fifty-three documents the volume contains, fifty-one are in Ruthenianand only two (nos. 11 and 32) are in Polish. Only two are judicial decrees,whereas fifty-one are royal charters of privilege or other chancery inscrip-20Jan Ogoriczyk Kuczborski (ca. 1572-1614) later became the Roman Catholic bishop ofChetm. See the essay by Wieslaw Miiller in PSB 16:71-72. The charter was probably enteredhere because it relates directly to Krupets'kyi, who was responsible for the previous entries. Ihave not located an additional copy of this document in the contingent inscription book of theCrown Metrica.21The watermark has a coat of arms with the inscription "WERGOT VERTRAVATMATWOL GEBAVT HANSEEISEL." See Georg Eineder, The Ancient Paper-Mills of theFormer Austrian-Hungarian Empire and their Watermarks (Hilversum, Holland, 1960;"Monumenta chartae papyraceae historiam illustrantia," 8), p. 66 (nos. 873-76). A tracing ofthe watermark in the paper of the initial folios is also provided by Edmundas Laucevicius,Popierius Lietuvoje XV-XVIH a. (Vilnius, 1967), no. 3377.22It appears to represent a triad of fleurs-de-lis within a crest topped by a crown, although thewire frame used was badly worn and the third lily is seriously distorted. The closest representationI have yet found is Piccard's, vol. 13, no. 1443 or 1444, dating from 1610, which heidentifies with documents from Heilsberg, East Prussia or Cracow. See Gerhard Piccard,Wasserzeichen Lilie (Stuttgart, 1983, "Die Wasserzeichen kartei Piccard im HaupstaatenarchivStuttgart," XIII). See the tracing of the Nysa fleur-de-lis triad by Kazimiera Maleczynska,Dzieje starego papiernictwa slqskiego (Wroclaw, 1961, "Monografie sla.skie Ossolineum,"IV), p. 170.23For a systematic list of the documents with their dates and place of issue, see the appendixto this article.