BelNIIDAD released the Latin-Belarusian Dictionary of the Legal Language of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania of the 13th-18th centuries in two parts

The Belarusian Research Institute of Records Management and Archival Studies (BelNIIDAD) has released the Latin-Belarusian Dictionary of the Legal Language of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania of the 13th-18th centuries in two parts.

The dictionary presents the most used Latin legal vocabulary of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania of the 13th-18th centuries, as well as the most common vocabulary of the Roman and early medieval periods, which was used in legal acts and narrative sources of later times, with translation into modern Belarusian language. Also included are Old Belarusian equivalents from the Statutes of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and some Old Polish equivalents. The appendix contains indexes of these equivalents. The lexical corpus contains around 16,000 entries.

The publication is intended for archivists, archaeographers, lawyers, historians of various specializations and philologists.