1229A Treaty: Introduction and Encoding

The 1229 Treaty between Smolensk, Riga and Gotland (version A)

Introduction and Encoding

This document contains an electronic text edition of version A of the 1229 Trade and Peace Treaty of Mstislav Davidovi^c of Smolensk between Riga and Gotland on the one hand and Smolensk on the other.

The edition is based on the facsimile in Sumnikova and Lopatin (1963). In the notes all commentaries in the edition of Sumnikova and Lopatin (1963: 20-25) are included and all deviations from the edition (mainly regarding punctuation marks) are mentioned. Observations in the edition by Obnorskij and Barxudarov (1952²: 44-50) are also taken into account. Following Sumnikova and Lopatin, the trema (two points occuring frequently above syllable-initial vowel letters) is left out in the electronic edition. The notation of the trema by Obnorskij and Barxudarov is unreliable.

The facsimile is available in JPEG format: front side (871KB), back side (231KB).

Click here to read the German translation by Goetz (1916: 232-293).

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References

A comprehensive list of older publications can be found in Sumnikova and Lopation (1963: 137-138).

Goetz, L.K.: 1916, "Der Smolensker Vertrag von 1229", in: idem, Deutsch-Russische Handelsverträge des Mittelalters, Hamburg, 231-304 (German translation on pp. 232-293).
Larin, B.A.: 1975, Lekcii po istorii russkogo literaturnogo jazyka (X - seredina XVIII v.), Moskva (pp. 98-100 on the syntax and lexicon of the Treaty).
Obnorskij, S.P. and S.G. Barxudarov: 1952², Xrestomatija po istorii russkogo jazyka I, Moskva (text edition on pp. 44-50).
Schaeken, J.: 2001, "Zu ode im altrussischen Handelsvertrag zwischen Smolensk, Riga und Gotland (1229)", Zeitschrift für slavische Philologie 60, 1-8.
Schaeken, J.: 2001, "L'orthographe de la charte de Smolensk de 1229, version A", Slavica occitania 12, 327-341.
Schaeken, J.: 2003: "Zur Spracheinheit im Korpus der Smolensker Urkunden des 13.-14. Jahrhunderts", Rusistika - Slavistika - Lingvistika. Festschrift für Werner Lehfeldt zum 60. Geburtstag (= Die Welt der Slaven, Sammelband 19, eds. Sebastian Kempgen, Ulrich Schweier & Tilman Berger), München: Sagner, 261-272.
Schaeken, J.: 2003, "Cokan'e v smolenskix gramotax XIII-XIV vv.", Berestjanye gramoty: 50 let otkrytija i izu^cenija. Materialy me^zdunarodnoj konferencii. Velikij Novgorod, 24-27 sentjabrja 2001 g. (eds. A.A. Gippius, A.A. Zaliznjak, E.A. Rybina, J. Schaeken & V.L. Janin), Moskva: Indrik, 322-332.
Sumnikova, T.A. and V.V. Lopatin: 1963, Smolenskie gramoty XIII-XIV vekov, Moskva (facsimile; text edition on pp. 20-25; older editions are listed on pp. 54-55).
Zaliznjak, A.A.: 1986, "Novgorodskie berestjanye gramoty s lingvisti^ceskoj to^cki zrenija", in: V.L. Janin and A.A. Zaliznjak, Novgorodskie gramoty na bereste (iz raskopok 1977-1983 gg.), Moskva, 89-219 (p. 104 on the orthography of the Treaty).
Zaliznjak, A.A.: 1995, Drevnenovgorodskij dialekt, Moskva.
^Zivov, V.: 1984, "Pravila i proizno^senie v russkom cerkovnoslavjanskom pravopisanii XI-XIII veka", Russian linguistics 8, 251-293 (fn. 21 and 31 on the orthography of the Treaty).