Русские рукописи «Лествицы» Иоанна Синайского

• Main Author: ПОПОВА ТАТЬЯНА ГЕОРГИЕВНА
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Негосударственное образовательное учреждение высшего профессионального образования «Православный Свято-Тихоновский гуманитарный университет» 2016
• Subjects: ИОАНН ЛЕСТВИЧНИК,ЛЕСТВИЦА,ДРЕВНИЕ РУССКИЕ РУКОПИСИ,ИСТОРИЯ КУЛЬТУРЫ ДРЕВНЕЙ РУСИ,БИБЛИОТЕКИ,JOHN CLIMACUS,THE LADDER OF DIVINE ASCENT,OLD RUSSIAN MANUSCRIPTS,OLD RUSSIAN CULTURAL HISTORY; Kostroma; Republic of Karelia
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По предварительным подсчетам, всего славянских рукописей, сохранивших текст «Лествицы» (полностью или во фрагментах), созданных в период с середины XII до конца XVII в., не менее 750, из них около 500 являются русскими. В настоящее время русские рукописи «Лествицы» хранятся не менее чем в 62 книгохранилищах не менее чем 20 стран мира. В статье называются библиотеки, в которых имеются русские книги «Лествицы», называются: а) некоторые книги, пропавшие из российских собраний, имеющих дореволюционные описания, обнаруженные позднее за рубежом, б) русские рукописи Лествицы, судьба которых в настоящее время неизвестна, а также в) некоторые утраченные ее рукописи (сгоревшие в огне пожаров). According to preliminary estimates, the number of Slavonic manuscripts containing the text of the Ladder of Divine Ascent (either entirely or fragmentarily) and going back to the period from the mid-12th to the end of the 17th century is no fewer than 750, and no fewer than 500 are Russian. At present, Russian manuscripts of the Ladder are kept in no fewer than 62 depositories in at least 20 countries. The earliest Russian manuscripts of the Ladder date from the 12th century. It is a happy coincidence that both of them are kept in N. P. Rumyantsev’s collection (Russian State Library, Moscow) under neighbouring numbers (198, 199). On the whole, the majority of Russian Ladders are kept in libraries of Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Besides, a number of manuscripts are found in Yaroslavl’, Kostroma, Novosibirsk, Samara, Vyazniki, Irkutsk, Kirillov, Novgorod, Ust’-Tsil’ma, Tot’ma. Manuscripts from provincial towns are practically not introduced into the scholarly circulation. This concerns, for instance, the manuscript from Pudozh Museum of local history and culture, Republic of Karelia. The paper mentions a number of books that had disappeared from well-known collections and were later discovered in other libraries. These are manuscripts F.I.234 (Russian National Library, St. Petersburg), Spenser collection, Slavonic MS 3 (New York Public Library), a book from the Collection of single acquisitions № 327 (Russian State Library, Moscow), a manuscript from Martin Schøyen private collection. The paper points to some Russian manuscripts of the Ladder, the fate of which is unknown now, e.g. the manuscript dating from the first half of the 16th century and containing notes with the names of Patriarch Germogen, hegumen of Pavlov Monastery Filaret, hegumen of Kostroma Bogoyavlensky Monastery Arseny. This manuscript was seen by N. P. Rozhdestvensky at Ivanovo Regional Archive in 1954. Another manuscript whose fate is now unknown was written in 1725 by hieromonk Feofan of Transfi guration Pustynnoskel’sky Monastery on commission from hegumen Prokopy Bochkovsky. This book was seen in 1960 by N. F. Bel’chikov and N. P. Rozhdestvensky at Tambov Archive Bureau; now it is missing from Tambov archives. For books that are missing there still remains hope to be discovered, in contrast to those manuscripts which are lost forever. Many books kept in Russian wooden churches were destroyed in fire. The article mentions books that burnt during World War II. These are manuscripts destroyed on 6 April 1941 when a bomb hit the National Library of Serbia. Furthermore, Monastery Žitomislić, where a Russian Ladder was kept, was burnt to ashes during the war. Manuscripts are also destroyed in peacetime because of their keepers’ negligence. On 16 August 1982 a fire broke out in a building of Bogoyavlensky Convent, Kostroma, where reserve collections of Kostroma Regional State Archive were kept. In this fi re at least three manuscripts burnt and three were badly damaged. The actual number of Russian manuscripts of the Ladder was much higher than 500. We consider that the number of manuscripts of the 11th-17th centuries that contained the Ladder might have been several thousands.