Анотація:
The article on the material «Аcts (protocols) Poltava city government» considers
the specific text of the office in the end XVII – the beginnings of XVIII centuries,
describes the structure and content of contemporary business documents filed characterizing
the living language elements of that time, the peculiarities of old Ukrainian
lexical and phraseological structures found in the studied texts, that reflect sources of
colloquial speech of that time.