Struktura i zasady kompletowania ksiąg sądowych Metryki Litewskiej Zygmunta Augusta
The Structure and Pattern of Formation of Court Books to the Lithuanian Metrica under King Sigismund Augustus

Summary/Abstract: This article explores the structure and patterns of formation of court registers included in the Lithuanian Metrica of King Sigismund Augustus. The text focuses on the development and composition of the books attributed to the scribe called Jan Szymkowicz (Court Record Book no. 35, Book of Entries no. 38), with documents spanning a fourteen-year period (1554–1568). The article concludes that during King Sigismund Augustus’ rule, under the chancellorship of Mikołaj Radziwiłł called Czarny (The Black), there was in the chancery of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania no uniform pattern to be followed in order to make the king’s court registers, despite the fact that, in the mid-sixteenth century, chancery’s scribes usually influenced the chronological scope and structure of these registers.

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