LITURGICAL BOOKS XVII-XX CENTURIES FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE NATIONAL RESERVE “DAVNIІ HALYCH”

Abstract

The article is devoted to the collection of liturgical books of the 17^th–20^th centuries, which are stored in the National Reserve “Davniі Halych” or are investigated by scientists of this institution during 1994–2018 years. The main objects of the studios were more than 50 exemplars, which came from parishes of the Galician orthodox / greek-catholic church organization. Mainly among the processed monuments dominate Yevanheliіe, Triodʹ, Sluzhebnyk, Mineіa, Chasoslov, Oktoikh, Psaltyr, Anfolohion end Apostol. Particular attention is paid to the problem of cataloging of printed memos, as well as their study in the context of the source-study perspective. The important element of the study consists of the margin notes, first of all represented by the offering texts that often inform contemporaries about the already nonexisting churches, record the names of donors, clergy and regents. Through such records, it is known that the patrons of Orthodox / Union churches sometimes included followers of the Latin rite. At the same time, there are extraordinary notes on the pages of books. For example, a fragment of a carol of the late XVIII – early XIX cen­tu­ries on the margins of the monastery Apostоl of 1639, the former monastery in the village Dorohiv near Halych, chro­nicle evidence of the Turkish-Tatar attack of 1672 on Pokuttіa, recorded between the liturgical texts of the Sluzhebnyk of 1740 from the village of Vysochanka, and special attention should be paid to the correction of liturgical texts in the Sluzhebnyks (Liturgions) of 1690 and 1929 made for confessional reasons. In particular, at the time of the change of jurisdictions of church centers – first after 1700 from Orthodox (Constantinople) to Union (Rome) and later in 1946 from Greek Catholic (Rome) to Orthodox (Moscow). Thus, the complex of monuments, conditionally determined as the Galician church old printed books, opens wide opportunities for further historical and religious studies of the region.

Keywords: Halych, old printed books, liturgical books, churches, monasteries, margin notes.