Issue 23 (2019)
The 23rd issue of the digest continues the publication of scientifi c studies presenting archival and library legacy of Ukraine through promulgation of new historical sources. The articles include the following items: description of the notable Ukrainian composer Lev Revutskyi’s archives; analytical reviews of various activities of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; linguistic and textual characteristics of Slavic manuscripts of John of Sinai «Ladder» from the fonds of the Institute of Manuscript of V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine. The history of book collections is covered in the materials on discovering ancestral libraries of the beginning of the 20th century in Podilla region. The manuscript of Roman-Catholic 15th century homiletics from the St. Egidius monastery in Nuremberg and Greek Euchologion of 1778 from V. I. Hryhorovych’s Azov sea region manuscripts collection (held in the fonds of the Russian State Library) became the objects of codicological and codicographical research. The special historical disciplines are presented by researches in source studies and historiography. Publication of letters of the famous Ukrainian artist Olena Kulchytska to the art critic Stefan Taranushenko, considerable in volume and quite representative in content, provides an opportunity to broaden our knowledge on her activity in 1957, her ideas (some of which were to be fulfi lled by the artist later on) and, most importantly, her personality. Moreover, the digest provides the review of the new publication on the history of Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church and a notice regarding the attribution of two photographs from the fonds of the Fine Arts department in V. I Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine, as the new sources contributing to the biography of the famed artist Vilhelm Kotarbinskyi on the verge of the 19th and 20th centuries, whose life and works were closely connected to Ukraine.
For historians, philologists, art critics, culturologists, as well as researchers interested in Ukrainian history.
The series of scientific articles "Manuscript and Book Heritage of Ukraine" maintains a policy of open access to published material, recognizing the priority principles of the free dissemination of scientific information and knowledge exchange for global social progress.
