Digital Sources

Bringing the archive closer to readers.

An independent project by Łukasza Rzepińskiego.

From scan to reading

We begin with fond 132, inventory 1 at the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv (TsDIAL). We combine a register of units, transcriptions, translations and historical commentary. We aim to cover further collections and archives in future.

How to read the editions

The materials are prepared with artificial intelligence. These are working editions and may contain reading, identification and translation errors. Each text states its status, scope and uncertainties. An available translation does not imply a complete critical edition or a completed bibliographical search.

Brackets and ellipses mark gaps and uncertain readings, among other things. The original document, later annotations and catalogue information should be considered separately. Scholarly use requires checking the scan and citing the archival reference.

Project logo

Jan III Sobieski with a digital artefact is a modern AI-assisted interpretation based on a historical portrait. The logo is not a reproduction of the original painting.

Acknowledgements

We thank TsDIAL in Lviv for digitising and sharing the materials. The archive’s work enables further reading and study of these sources. This is an independent initiative, not the archive’s official website.

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Collaboration

We welcome help checking readings, locating published editions and expanding indexes of people and places. Comments that provide the archival reference, scan page and reasons for a proposed correction are especially valuable.

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