On Novgorod Birchbark Documents no. 1 and 22

The article is dedicated to the study of two Novgorod birchbark documents from the turn of the 15th century — no. 1 and 22. Both documents were discovered in close proximity to each other (on Property A of the Nerev Excavation and the adjacent section of the street) and, as later analysis revealed, are written in the same hand. Document no. 1 is a register of in-comes from several villages, while no. 22 is a fragment of a čelobitnaja (petition). The disput-ed parts of the texts are discussed, and new conjectures are proposed for a number of lacu-nae. It was also discovered that one of the taxes (даръ) in document no. 1 had a fixed rate of 20 bely. The most significant amendments to document no. 1 are: (1) a more complete recon-struction of the first phrase of the document; (2) the localization of the landholding based on the conjecture а с (пе)руньского села; (3) the refinement of two reconstructions (lines 2 and 10) on the basis of the discovered regularities in the text structure and the amount of taxes. For document no. 22, the following aspects are discussed: (1) the interpretation of the disputed form öсподину; (2) the reconstruction of the first line of the inner side of the birch-bark; (3) he reading of the last preserved line.