Lviv Editions of 17th Century Cyrillic Books in Novgorod State Museum-Reserve Collection

Abstract

The article examines Lviv Cyrillic books of the 17th century, which are stored in the library of the Novgorod State Museum-Reserve. In total, nine copies of six editions are presented there. They were printed in two printing houses. From the publications of the Lviv Dormition Brotherhood printing house, there are two copies of the Festal Menaions (1638), the Book of Hours (1642), the Octoechos of 1644 and 1686. The printing house of Mikhail Slyozka is represented by two copies of the Act and Epistles (1639) and two copies of the Pentecostarion, (1642). Some of the books come from the collection of the Iversky Monastery. They were brought there by the brethren from the Kuteinsky Epiphany Monastery along with printing equipment by order of Patriarch Nikon. The second part of the books was purchased from collector Denis Perestoronin in 2015. The article shows the history of book printing and studies the notes on the copies. Most of them are donation records. These include the record on the donation of the Festal Menaions (1638) by the Lviv Dormition Brotherhood to the Kuteinsky Monastery; the record from 1655 about the donation of the Octoechos (1644) on behalf of Constantine and his wife Evdokia to the Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin for the health and repose of family members; the record from 1668 about the donation of the Pentecostarion (1642) by the brethren of the village of Antonovka to the Church of the Nativity. Ownership records are of great scientific interest. Among them is the record from 1659 about the ownership of the Book of Hours (1642) by the Czech prince Lev Alexandrovich Shlyakhov, a foreigner who came to serve in Russia using fabricated documents and called himself like that. He was a servant of the Polish Count Kasper von Denhof. Also of great importance is the record made in 1914 by the hand of the impressionist artist Mikhail Nikolaevich Yakovlev.