OLD RUSSIAN MANUSCRIPTS IN THE RUSSIAN NATIONAL CORPUS

The article deals with different types of the corpus representation of Old Russian manuscripts in their ability to solve linguistics problems. Collections of digital copies and e-books in PDF and DjVu formats are  the simplest and widely spread type of electronic resources, containing old Russian manuscripts. Theoretically more interesting, though much more difficult, is the representation of digitized editions as textual corpora and databases. The main attention in the article is paid to the historical subcorpus within the Russian National Corpus representing the sources of the XI-XVII centuries and consisting of four parts: the Old Russian corpus, the Corpus of birchbark letters, the Middle Russian and the Church-Slavonic corpora.