ФОНД «БІБЛІОТЕКА БОГОСЛОВСЬКОЇ АКАДЕМІЇ» ВІДДІЛУ РУКОПИСІВ ЛЬВІВСЬКОЇ НАЦІОНАЛЬНОЇ НАУКОВОЇ БІБЛІОТЕКИ УКРАЇНИ імені В. СТЕФАНИКА: ІСТОРІЯ СТВОРЕННЯ ТА ТЕМАТИЧНИЙ СКЛАД

Abstract

The article presents the history of formation and thematic composition of the manuscript collection of the fond “Library of the Theological Academy”, which is stored in the Vasyl Stefanyk National Scientific Library of Ukraine in Lviv. It was created in the late 40s of the twentieth century mostly from manuscript books of libraries of Greek-Catholic Institutions of higher education and Societies in Lviv — the Theological Academy, the Greek Catholic Theological Seminary, the Studion Society, the Theological Scientific Society, as well as from individual manuscripts of the Andrey Sheptytskyi National Museum, the Prosvita Society, the Society “Halytsko-Ruska Matytsia”, the Society of Saint Paul, and private collections. More than a half of the fond consists of Cyrillic manuscript books of the XV–XIX centuries, there are also materials on the history of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, theological scientific and educational, linguistic, agricultural and other literature. Keywords: manuscript book, manuscript collection, theological literature, library, Theological Academy in Lviv, Greek Catholic Seminary in Lviv, Studion Society, Theological Scientific Society.