Book/Printed Material Kaunas Land Court Year Books for 1581--83.
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Title
- Kaunas Land Court Year Books for 1581--83.
Summary
- At the height of its power in the 15th century, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ruled over the territory of present-day Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, and Ukraine, and parts of Estonia, Moldova, Poland, and Russia. In the Union of Lublin of 1569, the Grand Duchy and the Kingdom of Poland merged to form the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The commonwealth had a highly developed legal and administrative system, based on local land courts that decided civil cases involving the gentry and castle courts that dealt with other local matters, including criminal cases. Courts were required to maintain detailed records of their proceedings, which were kept in old Byelorussian and in Polish. In the 19th century, the court records of the Grand Duchy were centralized in Vilnius, and eventually became part of the manuscript collections of the Vilnius University Library. The library now holds 543 books of court acts of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania dating from 1540 to 1845. These books are a unique source for the histories of Lithuania, Poland, and Belarus. Shown in this volume are the 1581--83 year books of the Kaunas land court. Kaunas is in south-central Lithuania, and by the mid-16th century it was one the most important cities in the Grand Duchy.
Names
- Kaunas (Lithuania). Land Court Creator.
Created / Published
- [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1581 to 1583]
Headings
- - Lithuania--Kaunas
- - 1581 to 1583
- - Court records
- - Courts
Notes
- - Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
- - "Red lacquer seal. Watermarks: ax, horseshoe, crown. Old signature in N. Gorbachevskiĭ catalog: 1/13755."--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
- - Original resource extent: 762 pages, no covers; 30 x 20 x 12.5 centimeters.
- - Original resource at: Vilnius University Library.
- - Content in Belarusian and Polish.
- - Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.
Medium
- 1 online resource.
Source Collection
- Legal Acts of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania 1522-1845
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2021667550
Online Format
- compressed data
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