Bondar N. P., Burhomistrenko T. A.

Rare copy of "Life of Saint Volodymyr" (Kyiv, 1670) from the manuscript Corpus of Lives of the Saints as a source for the 17th century Kyiv hagiography study

Section: Studies of Archival and Book Fonds

Abstract: In the article a rare copy of an old-printed edition of “Life of Saint Volodymyr”, published circa 1670 in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra printing-house is characterized. The copy was included to Corpus of Lives of the Saints of the17th–18th centuries from the collection of Church and Archeological museum of Kyiv Ecclesiastical Academy (Fond 301, Unit 416L). According to the modern advances of codicology, archeology, filigranology it became possible to critically review the data of descriptions, which brought new results. The approximate dating of the old-printed edition, which has no title and imprint, is confirmed. The publishing history of “Life of Saint Volodymyr” is analyzed. The research of the copy is accompanied by the complex description of overall manuscript hagiography codex, the analysis of its content, specifics, ownership notes and paper filigrees. Archeographic analysis of Corpus of Lives of the Saints was combined with study of formation of Ukrainian hagiography complex of the second half of the 17th – the early 18th centuries.

Keywords: Corpus of Lives of the Saints from the collection of Church and Archeological Museum of Kyiv Ecclesiastical Academy, copy of Kyiv edition of “Life of Saint Volodymyr” of 1670, Lives of old ukrainian saints, handwritten books, convolutes, codex, filigrees.

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• Bondar N. P. (V. I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine)
• Burhomistrenko T. A. (V. I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine)

Cite:
Bondar N. P. (2017). Rare copy of "Life of Saint Volodymyr" (Kyiv, 1670) from the manuscript Corpus of Lives of the Saints as a source for the 17th century Kyiv hagiography study. Manuscript and book heritage of Ukraine, (21) 3-19. (In Ukrainan). doi: https://doi.org/10.15407/rksu.21.003

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