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A MISSING VOLUME OF THE RUTHENIAN METRICA 495law to the towns of Kovel' (no. 37) 26 and Vyzhva (now Nova Vyzhva; no.39). 27 Two other documents reconfirm rights and privileges given to theguilds of tailors and tanners in Luts'k (no. 4) and to the guilds of butchersand other artisans in Kovel' (no. 38). 28 In the Kovel' document, there arealso provisions restricting the habitation of Jews to specific areas of the city.Another document grants the right to hold fairs to the town of Brahyliv(now Brailiv, in Zhmerynka raion of Vinnytsia oblast; no. 15). In this casethe document also has a fiscal purpose, since revenue from the fairs isassigned to Jan Potocki (Ian Potots'kyi), palatine of Bratslav, in return forhis loan of 2,000 ztotys to the Crown.Approximately one-third of the documents in the Kornik volume areroyal grants of land or villages to individuals in the palatinates of Kiev,Volhynia, and Bratslav. Twelve of them are direct grants (Ruthenian,danyna; Pol. danina or nadanie) of plots, land strips, or villages; 29 andseven confer permission to sell or transfer lands or villages. 30 To thesefigures should be added five documents granting lands or villages fromestates or intestate estates, and one confirming a grant of a village withinthe Grand Duchy of Lithuania (no. 5). 31 There are three documents conveyingchurch property. One permits the transfer of two churches inKremenets' from father to son (no. 26), and another grants the Golden-Domed Monastery of Saint Michael the Archangel with all its lands to thejurisdiction of Ipatii Potii, the Uniate metropolitan of Kiev and of theCathedral of Saint Sophia in Kiev (no. 51). A third is a blank royal letter26The document notes that Kovel' had previously been granted Magdeburg privileges byQueen Bona and by King Sigismund II Augustus; in fact, Kovel' had already been grantedMagdeburg privileges by King Sigismund I in 1518. The original charter is held in AGAD,Zbior Dokumentow Pergaminowych, no. 4792 (Koval's'kyi cites the earlier Ptaszycki designationML X.216—Istochnikovedenie, p. 8, and p. 85, fn. 8). An abbreviated version of thepresent Kovel' charter is published in Arkhiv iugo-zapadnoi Rossii, pt. 5, vol. 1, section 1(Kiev, 1869):59-60 (now TsDIA UkrSSR v Kieve, fond 35, opys 1, sprava 1, fol. 94, old no.1477).27The charter confirms the Magdeburg privileges granted in 1548 by Queen Bona. SeeSiownik geograficzny 14: 166, and Baliriski and Lipiriski, Starozytna Polska, 3:73. Neither ofthese sources cite this charter. Koval's'kyi does not refer to Magdeburg privileges for Vyzhva.28Although other guilds in Luts'k and Kovel' are referenced in documents of otherRuthenian Metrica books listed by Koval's'kyi, he does not mention these specific guilds inIstochnikovedenie, pp. 31-39, and the appended list, p. 69. Compare the guild documentspublished by Koval's'kyi in Metodicheskie rekomendatsii po podgotovke k spetsseminaru poistochnikovedeniiu istorii Ukrainy XVI-XVII vekov (Tsekhovye ustavy gorodov Ukrainy)(Dnipropetrovs'k, 1986), pp. 16-30, from contingent books of the Ruthenian Metrica inTsGADA.293031Nos. 3, 6, 9, 10, 16, 19, 20, 23 (revoked by no. 32), 33-35, and 43Nos. 2, 17, 24, 29, 31, 44, and 52.Nos. 14, 30, 36, 40, and 42.