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Last update of repository: 17 March 2020

Tsentral'nyi muzei drevnerusskoi kul'tury i iskusstva im. Andreia Rubleva (TsMiAR)


Sektor rukopisnoi i staropechatnoi knigi
[Sector of Manuscript and Early Printed Books]

Telephone: +7 495 678-14-29

Website: https://www.rublev-museum.ru/collecti...


Holdings

Total: ca. 2,000 units; early 15th c.–1985

The museum holds a collection of theological and liturgical manuscripts in the Slavonic and Early Rus' languages, which includes manuscript convolutes of Old Believer texts and several early manuscripts from the Joseph of Volokolamsk (Iosifo-Volokolamskii) Monastery.
        The earliest manuscript in the museum is a Western Slavic text copied in the fifteenth century—“On Fasting” (“O postnichestve”), attributed to Basil the Great. Among sixteenth-century manuscripts are two Gospels (Evangeliia-tetr), the 1510 Lestvitsa from the Joseph of Volokolamsk Monastery, an inspirational religiouscompilation known as Izmaragd, a festal Menaion (Minei) for the commemoration of saints, a book of hymns with verses from the Scripture (Stikhiry) in neumatic notation, compositions of Maksim Grek (Mikhail Trivolis), and other composite codices with texts of liturgical and canonical content.
        Most noteworthy among seventeenth-century manuscripts is the sinodik (book of readings for the deceased) in memory of the Monastery of Ioann Zlatoust (Moscow). There isalso an Izmaragd and Chronography of 1642 from the Fedorovskii Monastery (Kazan), illuminated with interpretations of the Apocalypse.
        A large number of manuscripts from the late seventeenth to twentieth centuries comprise monuments of Old Believer book culture. There are Old Believer compilations of extracts from books of dogma, eschatology, and morality; codices with lives of saints; and tales of miracles and miracle workers. Among music manuscripts there are texts with neumatic notation, as well as five-line notation with square andItalian notes.
        The museum also has some documentary films showing the restoration of some of the works of such early Rus' painters as Karp Zolotarev and Andrei Rublev, and the restoration of works from the Spaso-Andronikov Monastery, as well as other documentary filmswith historical themes.
        The icon collection has an security fond of photographic negatives, and there are many photographs of other works of early Rus' art.


Copy facilities:
There are facilities for xerox copying.


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