Issue 28 (2022)
Scientific studies of the 28th issue of the digest, involving new documentary sources in the public circulation, cover the results of humanitarian research of archival and book heritage of Ukraine and the world. Among the issues raised in the digest are: analysis of the marginalia and inset entries on copies of Johann Arndt’s treatise “Four Books on True Christianity” (Halle, 1735) in translation by Symon Todorsky from collection of the V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine; examination of the presentation of Petro Mohyla’s personality in two Baroque sermons on the death anniversary of the Kyivan metropolitan by the prominent Ukrainian preacher Antonii Radyvylovskyi; general review of printed and manuscript materials related to the scientific activity of the Ukrainian cultural critic Oleksii Selivachov (1887–1919) and his biographical information deposited in a private archive; provision of a general overview of the Synodikon of Zolotonosha Monastery of the Annunciation, analyzing its content and clarification of the scientific potential of the monuments of ecclesiastical writing in the context of studying the historical, social and cultural processes that took place in the Ukrainian lands in the early modern period; updated data on the formation of industrial collections of rare books in university libraries and introducing of obscure documents and materials to scientific circulation; introduction to the scientific circulation of the medical manuscript from the V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine that is the Ukrainian translation of the Latin book. Using the historical, textological and linguistic analysis to make the historical and codicological description of the manuscript; highlighting of the specifics of the handwriting expertise of writing heritage objects based on the experience of expert researches made at the Kharkiv Korolenko State Scientific Library; systematization of the fundamental achievements of Western European and American Byzantine and Paleoslavic scholars for one and a half hundred years within interdisciplinary studies of Semitic-Syrian-Greek kontakion and Kyivan Rus kondakarion singing; research of aging processes of especially valuable documents of the V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine on various material carriers in order to create and maintain conditions for ensuring their durability. The target audience includes historians, philologists, art historians, culturologists as well as other researches interested in national and world history and culture.
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.
