Певческие рукописи Антониево-Сийского монастыря в Синодальном певческом собрании (ГИМ): палеография и штрихи к истории монастыря и монастырской библиотеки

Abstract

The Synodal Singing Collection of the State Historical Museum contains a complex of singing manuscripts from the Antonievo-Siysky Monastery. Most of them date from the 17th century. It is the time when the domestic tradition of church singing was intensively transformed. In the Antonievo-Siysky Monastery, the process of changes proceeded quite actively, and the Siysky complex of manuscripts is a valuable source on the history of Russian church singing in the transitional period.All types of musical notation, known in the ancient Russian manuscript tradition of the 15th–17th centuries, are presented in the Antonievo-Siysky singing manuscripts, including double-signs (dvoznamenniky), as well as several pre-reform manuscripts with a naon edition, in which cinnabar marks modern to the main text are affixed. The complex allows us to trace how the preferences of the Siya scribes and singers in using this or that type of notation in practice changed during the 16th–18th centuries.According to the edition of the verbal text, the Siysky singing manuscripts are divided into three groups: pre-reform, transitional and post-reform. The variety of editions of the verbal text makes it possible to study the methods of work of Nikon's editors of the Printing House and their monastic followers.The repertoire of chants recorded in the Siysky manuscripts reflects the excellent knowledge of the Siya master-singers both the singing heritage of the end of the 15th–16th centuries and the creative achievements of their contemporaries from the major singing centers of that time.