Issue 25 (2020)
The next, 25th, issue of the digest includes professional surveys that engage the results of archaeographic research of unique archival and library fonds into scientific and public circulation. These are, in particular, the studies dedicated to the research of the old printed books from the fonds of the V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine; archival documents to the history of the Ukrainian People's Party (1918–1921); materials for Shevchenko studies in the letters of Mykhailo Komarov. The history of book collections and digests is presented by articles about provenance marks of book fonds of educational and auxiliary units of the Kyiv University of St. Volodymyr and the iconography of the image of Holy Great Martyr Barbara in the Ukrainian graphics of the 17th– 18th centuries from the fonds of the V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine. The study of codicological-paleographic and phonetic features of the Lavryshiv Gospel highlights the achievements of national codicologists. Special historical sciences are represented by studies on bibliology, chronicles’ archeography, librarianship, bibliography, biography, numismatics. Problems of digital humanities and databases of cultural heritage in libraries of Ukraine, as well as criteria and priorities for selecting objects of historical and cultural documentary heritage for digitization are updated in a new section of the digest «Information resource of cultural heritage».
The target audience includes historians, philologists, art historians, culturologists as well as other researchers interested in the world history and the history of Ukraine.
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.
