The PriLit corpus contains 37 texts of older Slovenian narrative prose by 12 authors. One text, Sreča v nesreči (Fortune in Misfortune) by Janez Cigler (first published in 1836), is present in 7 editions, leading to 43 texts in the corpus. The texts were published 1643 - 1991, or, excluding reprints, 1643 - 1866. The corpus is encoded in two variants: one contains the corpus encoded in TEI, while the other adds automatic linguistic annotations comprising word modernization, lemmatisation, and syntactic annotation following the Universal Dependencies formalism for Slovenian. Besides the two TEI encoded version, the corpus is also available in derived plain text and in vertical format.