Translations of ancient documents

Professional translation of documents from the 14th-20th centuries.

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  We provide professional translation services of ancient manuscripts and old prints from Polish and Latin. Our researchers have the skills to translate and read documents of various nature from the 14th to the 20th centuries.

  We will help you correctly read ancient documents, including those in Ukrainian. Metric books, even those written in Ukrainian, are not always easy to read if they were created before 1945. We will help you quickly find the information you need in the source and read it correctly.

  We assist researchers in translating documents from the 14th-20th centuries.

  Translation examples:

  Fragment of a document from 1601 – an excerpt from a letter from Bishop Kyrylo Terletsky to Patriarch Meletius of Alexandria

  

  Translation:

  … I am not afraid. Eastern shepherds, at the terrible judgment you will hear the Judge: «I was thirsty, and you did not give me drink, I was hungry, and you did not give me food.» Instead of a saving drink, you give the sheep entrusted to you gall, instead of food, you give the poison of evil doctrine. Only now do I worthily carry the office of bishop on my shoulders, after the Roman see placed it on my head. Only now do I properly revere the church shrines, when I received from the supreme shepherd the power appropriate for reverence. Unfortunately, near Greece I was only a hired hand, but near Rome I became a shepherd. I did not anger God and the Lord, because I fulfilled His will by taking the side of the militant Church. I became the apostle of Russia, leaving the apostasy of Greece for eternal humiliation. I am no longer under the curse of hypocrites, if only God would bless, to whom I will address David: «They will speak evil, but You will bless; [those] who rise up against me will be put to shame, but Your servant will rejoice.» I hope that according to Ecclesiastes the Spanish: «He who slanders will defile his own soul and will be hated by all, and he who is with him will also be humiliated.» Rather, you expect God’s curse…