The role of contributions to the formation of the treasury of the Joseph-Volokolamsk monastery in the middle of the trouble time (1607-1608)

Records showing monastic contributions were identified in coming books of Joseph Volokolamsk monastery. There were discovered two groups of monastic contributions. It were contributions of the dead monastic people and voluntary contributions. We found a similarity of records of voluntary contributions with the act material with the help of semantic analysis. This made it possible to use the method of formal analysis. We considered the sale of the contribution property and calculated the proportion of contributions in income for 1607/08.