In the article a rare copy of an old-printed edition of “Life of Saint Volodymyr”, published circa 1670 in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra printing-house is characterized. The copy was included to Corpus of Lives of the Saints of the17th–18th centuries from the collection of Church and Archeological museum of Kyiv Ecclesiastical Academy (Fond 301, Unit 416L). According to the modern advances of codicology, archeology, filigranology it became possible to critically review the data of descriptions, which brought new results. The approximate dating of the old-printed edition, which has no title and imprint, is confirmed. The publishing history of “Life of Saint Volodymyr” is analyzed. The research of the copy is accompanied by the complex description of overall manuscript hagiography codex, the analysis of its content, specifics, ownership notes and paper filigrees. Archeographic analysis of Corpus of Lives of the Saints was combined with study of formation of Ukrainian hagiography complex of the second half of the 17th – the early 18th centuries.

The paper analyzes registers of town offices of the Russian Voivodeship of the 16th–17th centuries as a source for the prosopography of urban scribes. First of all, based on the registers we managed to identify scribes’ names and term of their career, sometimes also ethnical and social origin. They contain data on scribes’ participation in court trials and property deals, in particular, in those concerning land purchase and sale. The data on education primarily is concentrated in albums of students, and is absent in the registers. We managed to trace scribes’ study in Krakiv and Zamoistia academies, and also trace the scribes’ transfers from one governmental post to the other. The study was conducted on the basis of archival fonds of magistrates of the Russian Voivodeship, deposited in the Central State Historical Archive in Lviv. The obtained data on scribes is an auxiliary material for conducting a complex analysis of registers writing.

In the article a rare copy of an old-printed edition of “Life of Saint Volodymyr”, published circa 1670 in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra printing-house is characterized. The copy was included to Corpus of Lives of the Saints of the17th–18th centuries from the collection of Church and Archeological museum of Kyiv Ecclesiastical Academy (Fond 301, Unit 416L). According to the modern advances of codicology, archeology, filigranology it became possible to critically review the data of descriptions, which brought new results. The approximate dating of the old-printed edition, which has no title and imprint, is confirmed. The publishing history of “Life of Saint Volodymyr” is analyzed. The research of the copy is accompanied by the complex description of overall manuscript hagiography codex, the analysis of its content, specifics, ownership notes and paper filigrees. Archeographic analysis of Corpus of Lives of the Saints was combined with study of formation of Ukrainian hagiography complex of the second half of the 17th – the early 18th centuries.

The article covers specifics of liturgical chants in Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, their uniqueness, characteristics and tasks. It traces the history of Lavra’s chants history, development during many centuries and virtual abolition in Soviet times. The author notes an immense influence of Lavra’s chants on liturgical chants of the Orthodox Church in general and especially on the territory of the south and north-east of the former Russian Empire. The sequence of Lavra’s handwritten sheet music books creation is considered. The historical review of sheet music publishing in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra is given, the principles of selection of liturgical chants for publishing are defined. Printed music editions published in the Lavra before 1917 are listed. Some of the most complete and correct treatments of the chants of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra created and published outside the Lavra are distinguished. The process of gradual restoration of authentic Lavra chants and the current state of music publishing in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra are described. The main tasks of the national musical bibliography for revealing, systematization and description of liturgical printed music are outlined.

In the article features of poetry, printed under gravures with iconographic images that illustrate Ukrainian Cyrillic editions of the 17th – the first half of the 18th century, are observed. Such texts belong to productive in literature of this period genre of descriptive poetry. Little amount of Ukrainian descriptive poetry studies is connected with lack of modern reprints and diffusion of first-printed editions of descriptive poetry in fonds of different libraries. Our research is based on material of more than 50 texts, found in copies from the fonds of V. I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine. The majority of them were not republished. Content and formal features of descriptive poetry are conditioned by the content of edition in which the gravure with poem was printed. Verbalization of image from gravure is realized with the help of nomination and interpretation of iconographic image, formulation of a prayer appellation to this image or a preachment to the reader. In artistic structure of edition descriptive poetry is an important branch which links book gravure with the text of edition, decorated by this gravure. Such effect is achieved by the means of insertion in descriptive poetry of the image of patron, author or the central image of edition. Descriptive poetry is an element of artistic structure of Ukrainian Cyrillic book of Baroque epoch. It should be studied in complex with book gravure and in the context of its first printed edition.

According to the marginalia on copies of Pochaiv Cyrillic old-printed books from the fonds of V. I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, the cases were found when the owners or donators of books were women. It was found out that a woman in the XVIII ct. was not only a book co-owner along with her husband and other family members, but also an individual donator of a book to the temple, besides a woman as an active participant in the life of a church community could be involved in the collective purchase of books to a local church. The testimony of the re-binding of a book that was in the church property at the cost of the parishioner was also discovered. Though most of the records notify about the donation of books to temples, monasteries, there are also records about the donation of books to private persons. In general, there are a lot more donators of books than direct owners among the women names in the records. The cases, when the marginalia is localized, show that women donating the analyzed copies were peasants and, to a lesser extent, burghers. Women owning Pochaiv Cyrillic old-printed books were mostly nuns, but also representatives of priestly families.