Old Printed Books of the 18th Century in the Library Collection of the Ekaterinburg Theological Seminary (Part 2)

Abstract

The article presents materials on book archeography of the Cyrillic tradition, introducing readers to early printed books from the collection of the library in the Ekaterinburg Theological Seminary. It contains a scientific description of twelve old-printed books of the 18th century. Six of them were produced by the Synodal Printing House in Moscow: 1) Athanasius (Lyubimov). Spiritual Edification. 2nd ed. (February, 1753); 2) Irmologion (May, 1753); 3) Dimitry Rostovsky. The Search for the Schismatic Bryn Faith (September, 1783); 4) Octoechos, Part 1 (April, 1787); 5) Basil the Great. God-Pleasing Labours. Books 1–2. [1sted.] (December, 1790). One book was published in the Printing house of the Holy Synod at St. Petersburg: Basil the Great. God-Pleasing Labours. Books 3–4 (January, 1787). According to one book description, this article presents the products of St. Petersburg and Moscow Printing houses which were part of the Synodal printing structure. The St. Petersburg Printing house published the Archbishop Theophan’s (Prokopovich) work “The True Justification of Orthodox Christians Baptized into Christ with Watery Baptism” (15.01.1724). In Moscow — the next, 8th edition of the so-called Elizabeth Bible (January, 1784) was published. The books issued by Uniate monasteries commissioned by the Old Belie­vers are also presented in one copy. These are Svyatsy, printed in the Suprasl Printing house of the Annunciation Monastery in 1774, and Horologion, published in the printing house of the Pochaev Dormition Monastery, no earlier than 1786 accor­ding to the white date on the paper. Two books are related to the Old Believer printing house in Klintsovsky Posad (Chernigov province): 1) Teaching Gospel, published on November 14, 1785 at Klintsy, in the Old Believer Printing house of D. S. Rukavish­nikov and Ya. K. Zheleznikov, authorized to operate by the authorities; 2) Book of Hours, published by F. K. Kartashev’s Printing house not earlier than 1793 and provi­ded with false output data: Suprasl, 1793 (7301), since the activities of the Old Believer printing houses in Klintsy were prohibited at that time.