Рукописні збірники Мінеї в колекції Інституту рукопису Національної бібліотеки України імені В. І. Вернадського

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to analyse the manuscript collections of Menaions in the collection of the Institute of Manuscripts; to conduct an archaeographical description and identify features in the singing collections of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the 16th century. The research methodology includes system analysis, which made it possible to analyse and explore collections of singing manuscripts. To determine the temporal and quantitative characteristics of the analysed material, statistical and chronological methods were applied. The relevance of this publication is concerned with a growing interest in the historical past of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. An urgent need is a thorough study of collections of liturgical singing books, which condition is getting worse every year, which in turn inflicts heavy valuable material loss. The scientific novelty is determined from the fact that the manuscripts of the Menaion contain some differences in the text design, in the use of ekphonetic and neumatic notation, and the gradual modernization of the Ukrainian half-running hand. Conclusions. The archaeographic description of the handwritten Mineas made it possible to identify common features in the structure of ancient collections, namely the characteristic sequence of chants. Each section begins with a title written in cinnabar script, and the end of each section has a specific design in the form of a colophon or a small graphic image. The texts of handwritten collections were written by the Ukrainian half-mouth. Differences are also identified: in the design of the text – this is the use of various screensavers and colophons, in the use of econometric and irresponsible notation directly in the text and on the side margins of manuscripts. The unresolved issue is the decoding of the econometric and irresponsible notation that accompanies the texts of Minea, it can be solved thanks to the active cooperation of Ukrainian medieval scholars with scientists from Western European countries.