Issue 27 (2021)

 The next, 27th, issue of the digest includes professional surveys that engage the results of 
archaeographic research of unique archival and library fonds into scientific and public circula
tion. These are, in particular, the studies dedicated to the research of the testaments of citizens of 
Volynian towns of the late 16th and 17th centuries and French scientific text of the 18th century 
“Herbier Medical. 1759”; coverage of the materials on history of Lviv from fonds of the Vasyl Ste
fanyk National Scientific Library of Ukraine in Lviv. The article "“The Siberian Ladder” in Slavonic 
writing" is the first to express the hypothesis that the author of the manuscript may be a monk 
who lived at the end of the 17th century in one of the Kyiv monasteries. The history of book 
collections and digests is presented by articles with the analysis of informative potential of the 
Nova Rada newspaper collection and Opanas Zalyvakha`s authorial postcards from the digests 
of private archives. New evidence on activity of binderу of Mykhailo Sliozka in the light of bib
liopegistic research deepen the knowledge of Ukrainian codicology and codicography. Special 
historical sciences are represented by studies on bibliology, bibliography, biography. The infor
mation resource of the cultural heritage of Ukraine is enriched by intelligence on the content 
analysis of citations of the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine. A number of articles are devoted to 
the 150th anniversary of the outstanding Ukrainian orientalist and organizer of national science, 
Academician Ahatanhel Krymskyi.
 The target audience includes historians, philologists, art historians, culturologists as well as 
other researchers interested in the world history and the history of Ukraine.