Issue 24 (2019)
The digest includes archeographic, source and codicological studies, articles on the history of book collections, publications of documents, informative messages, which elucidate various spheres and aspects of studies dedicated to manuscript and book legacy of Ukraine. The fi rst part of the digest represents the contents of the archival fond of the outstanding Ukrainian composer Viktor Kosenko; history of formation, investigation and usage of the autographs collection at the Institute of Manuscript of V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine; activity of academician Anatolii Kovalenko on the position of the Secretary of Science at the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of the UkrSSR; textological study of the Greek charter from the Ecumenical Patriarch Jeremiah II to the Rohatyn Orthodox Brotherhood of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, etc. Book collections are represented by the studies of iconography of St. Nicholas’ image in Ukrainian engravings of the Baroque era based on illustrated old printed books and copperplates of the 17th and 18th centuries. One article is dedicated to the collection of the Ukrainian printed posters from 1920s and early 1930s preserved at the fonds of V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine. The «Codicology and Codicography» section clarifi es the time of creation and determines specifi c peculiarities of Ukrainian handwritten books of the 17th century. Source study researches of the collection are dedicated to description of the documents of Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg regarding the use of Soviet cinematic documents in the ideological war of the Third Reich against Bolshevism, and to generalisation of the discussion concerning selection of teachers and employees for Greek-Catholic primary and middle educational establishments in Holmshchyna and Pidliashshia through the analysis of correspondence of Kyiv archpriest Petro Lebedyntsev. The notice section provides information on the return from Germany to Ukraine of Petro I Charter to metropolitan Joasaph Krokovskyi in 1708, which was exported during the years of World War II. The target audience includes historians, philologists, art historians, culturologists as well as other researchers interested in 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.
