Ukrainian Cyrillic handwritten book of the XVII century from the fonds of the Manuscript Institute of VNLU: codicological-paleographic study and description

Abstract

The article provides the historiographical review of the main trends in contemporary codicological-paleographic study and description of the Ukrainian Cyrillic handwritten book of the XVII century, which is deposited in book gatherings and collections of the Manuscript Institute of V. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine. The conducted historiographical analysis is a signifi cant indicator of the given period manuscript heritage processing and description degree. The purpose of our work is to reveal the latest published descriptions of the Ukrainian codes of the ХVІІ century. In the publication we have determined the importance of the reviewed works in the modern scientifi c description of Ukrainian codes. We have noted that the Ukrainian Cyrillic handwritten book of the XVII century has not yet become a defi nite object of the historicalcodicological and source studies, has not been properly processed as a complex and has not been studied as a phenomenon of the general Ukrainian handwritten book culture so far. It is still necessary to study the latest published descriptions of Ukrainian codes for future researches.