The numerous and varied texts of Dimitrie Cantemir are in most cases known from manuscript copies, where the great scholar’s writing can only be identified in corrections or, more often, in additions or marginal notes. Researchers have generally ignored the copyists’ contribution to the form of Cantemir writings. The author of this study aims to identify the linguistic peculiarities introduced by the copyist in the final form of the Hronicului vechimei romano-moldo-vlahilor.