Issue 30 (2023)
The scientific studies of the 30th issue of the digest, involving new documentary sources into public circulation, covers the results of humanitarian research of archival and book heritage of Ukraine and the world. Among the topics updated in the edition: the study of the origin, dating, paleographic and linguistic signs, the content of documents in Greek from the fonds of the State Archives of the Chernihiv Region; source analysis of the "Technical French-Russian Dictionary" by the mining engineer Apollon Mevius through the prism of the author's biography; review of the documentary heritage of “Lemkivshchyna” Society Museum in Archive of Historical Museum in Sanok (Republic of Poland); the results of a comprehensive study of the activities of the libraries of secular and theological educational institutions of the Pereyaslav County of the Poltava Governance in the second half of the 19th - at the beginning of the 20th century; historical and codicological analysis of the manuscript collection of the 18th century from the collection of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine and Serbian manuscripts of the 17th century from the fonds of the Institute of Manuscript of the V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine. Special historical disciplines are represented by articles on source studies, prosopography, archival studies, document studies, and press studies. Until now unknown documents from the last third of the 17th – the first third of the 18th centuries on the history of the Kyiv Region from the book repositories of Ukraine and Poland have been included into scientific circulation. The information resource of the cultural heritage of Ukraine has been expanded by an attempt to codify the source base of the target information space of the medieval old print “Teacher's Gospel” by Kyrylo Trankvilion Stavrovetskyi. 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.
