In this article we present the Leše Manuscript, named after the village of Leše above Prevalje (in Carinthia, Slovenia), where the manuscript was written in the 18th century. It appears on German calendars from the beginning of the 18th century and it testifies to the existence of the Mežica dialect within the Carinthian dialect group. We focus on the time, location and the content of the manuscript, and offer a linguistic and dialectal analysis of three poems it contains.
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