[Russian manuscript scrolls collection].
Contributors: Kozli͡a︡kov, V. N.; Pliguzov, A. I.
Published: 1628
Language: rus
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: Law -- Russia -- Sources.; Manuscripts, Russian -- Washington (D.C.); Russia -- Charters, grants, privileges.; Russia -- Social conditions -- To 1801 -- Sources.; Russia -- History -- 1613-1689 -- Sources.; Russia -- History -- Peter I, 1689-1725 -- Sources.; Russia -- Politics and government -- 1613-1689 -- Sources.; Russia -- Politics and government -- 1689-1801 -- Sources.
Other titles: Russian scrolls; Russian legal books; Kollekt͡s︡ii͡a︡ rukopisnykh stolbt͡s︡ov; Rukopisnye stolbt͡s︡y; Russian scroll collection
Description: Mss.; records on legal and administrative matters: misc. documents relating to Svii͡a︡zhsk uezd, under the jurisdiction of the Kazan' Court Chancery, 1628-1699, including personal papers of Semen Gladkov and his descendants, 1639-1690; documents from Tomsk, 1647-1701 and from Shat͡s︡k, 1650-1683; items pertaining to Moscow, 1674-1699; blessings from the archbishops Simon and Markel of Vologda; items from the archives of the Novotorzhok Monastery of saints Boris and Gleb, 1686-1687; extracts from the Sobornoe ulozhenie of 1649; single items from Pskov (1676), Galich (1673/74), and Romanov (1644); and a 1719 copy of a charter addressed to Vasilii Sidorov in Novgorod uezd in 1646, mentioning events in the Time of Troubles. Include land tenure cases; petitions to the tsar; documents on taxes and tax collection, erection of new churches, Siberian administrative affairs; a contract establishing personal servitude; a report concerning a fugitive serf; testimony and complaints in criminal cases.
Notes: LC Report of the Librarian of Congress, 1935, p. 75-76
Russian-language finding aid by Kozliakov and Pliguzov: Kollekt͡s︡ii͡a︡ rukopisnykh stolbt͡s︡ov i drugie rannie russkie materialy v sobranii I͡U︡ridicheskogo otdela Biblioteki Kongressa SShA. (English-language title above.)
Additionally, a one-page letter (item I-48) possibly dating from the mid-18th century is found in this collection.
Written in various hands in 17th century Russian "skoropisʹ."
Forty-eight scrolls, each approx. 6 inches wide and from approx. 6 inches to 67 feet long (varying from one to 58 sheets in length). Composed of sheets of handmade, mostly cream-colored paper of irregular length pasted together at horizontal seams. Paper displays a variety of watermarks, mostly at left edge. Ink colors vary from black to faded brown. Some scrolls have inscriptions on verso. Paper shows a variety of discolorations and ink has eaten through in some places. Beginning in 1983 the LC Conservation Office washed the scrolls in a strengthening solution and repaired holes and frayed edges with Japanese rice paper. Cf. Memorandum to Peter Waters, Conservation Office, from Theodore Stanley, Paper Conservator, Nov. 3, 1989: Conservation treatment status of Law Library's Russian scroll collection.
Box 1 (60 cm. x 21 cm. x 8 cm.) contains 13 scrolls rolled in 12 paper wrappers (scrolls I-4 and I-16 are rolled together). Box 2 (46 cm. x 25 cm. x 6 cm.) contains 20 scrolls laid flat in folders. Boxes 3 (46 cm. x 20 cm. x 6 cm.), 4 (21 cm. x 24 cm. x 10 cm.), and 5 (26 cm. x 20 cm. x 8 cm.) contain respectively 10, 2, and 3 scrolls, each rolled in a paper wrapper. Scrolls were arranged in boxes by the LC Conservation Office.
Numbers on paper wrappers were provided by Andrei Pliguzov in 1995 and are keyed to a chronological list and description of the content of the scrolls in a finding aid: The collection of manuscript scrolls and other early Russian materials in the Law Library of Congress by Viacheslav Kozliakov and Andrei Pliguzov.
Acquired by LC in 1935. Item I-16 has pencilled accession number 7202/1694.