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ENThe article gives a short discussion of the content of the Samogitian lands court case books from the year 1597, kept in the Vilnius University Library’s Manuscripts Department (so-called Series B). It provides information on the scope of the surviving manuscript material, showing that the entries in these books can serve as an interesting reference point for specialists in history, law, geography, linguistics and other fields. Several of the more interesting entries are presented, with an attempt being made to group them according to the type of entry made. [From the publication]