The article describes the documentary collections from the Archive of Nowgorodfahrer, stored in the Archive of the Hanseatic city of Lubeck and reflecting the corporation's trade in Livonia in the second half of the XVI century. Among the sources under consideration are two merchant books: a large book of aldermen of the trade association and a book about the Narva trade of Nowgorodfahrer, which contain information about the scale of trade turnover of the merchant association, various correspondence with merchants who stayed in Livonia and Denmark, resolutions of Nowgorodfahrer concerning the organization of business activities, as well as complaints of merchants about difficulties, arising in the process of its implementation. These archival materials have not been published and have not been studied much to date, but they are important for the study of the specifics of Hanseatic trade in the Eastern Baltic States at the beginning of Modern times.
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