Systemic Relations in the History of the Novgorod Metrological Lexicon (according to Written Monuments of the XI—XVII Centuries)

In the article the author observes two metrological systems marked as in published written sources as in fast written sources of the XVI—XVII centuries kept in the Central State Archive of the Old Acts (Moscow). Its main task work is the description of the metrological denominations, the way they fulfilled their functions during the observed period of time and the way they were used in historic texts. The author confirms documentary the existence of a bass system in the Novgorod monuments of the specified period, except for the korobia system well-known in scientific literature.

historical lexicology, metrological lexicology, the Novgorod metrological system