Genre: register of payments in kind.
Catalogue description: a record of fur dues.

Fur was not merely a luxury good: this account lists it as a routine obligation, person by person and place by place.

Translation: “At Mikuevo: one white wolverine. Foma owes three martens; Mika, two martens. Velikaz owes four martens. Myateshka owes two martens. Velyut’s people owe two martens. Vozemut owes two martens. Filipp owes two martens. Namest owes two squirrels. Zhidila owes a marten. On Great Island, one marten. Vikhtimas owes two squirrels. Gostila owes two martens. Velyut owes three martens. Lopinkov owes six squirrels.”

Novgorod Birchbark Letter No. 2, 1360–1380.