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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-1Last update of repository: 24 June 2020Gosudarstvennyi Istoricheskii muzei (GIM)Otdel rukopisei i staropechatnykh knig [Division of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books] Address: Moscow, Krasnaia pl., 1/2 (main building) Telephone: +7 495 692-11-70 Reading room: +7 495 692-11-70 E-mail: [email protected]Website: http://www.shm.ru/kollektsii-i-muzeyn... Opening hours: RdngRm: MWTh 11:00–17:00 (July–August closed)Head: Emiliia Vasil'evna Shul'gina (tel. +7 495 692-11-70) Holdings Total: ca. 31,000 units; 6th–20th cc. MS books—27 collections (20,323 units) (6th–19th cc.); early printed books—8 collections (7,264 units); birchbark documents—236 units The Division of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books contains an extensive collection of early Slavonic-Rus' and other manuscript books and manuscripts dating from the sixth to the twentieth centuries. The division was considerably augmented after the Revolution with the transfer of archives and manuscript collections from many of the most important religious institutions of the Russian Orthodox Church, such as the holdings of the Moscow Administration of the Synod. Many extensive private collections of early manuscript books were also transferred to GIM. The Synodal (or Patriarchal) Collection, as it is still known in GIM, consists of manuscripts originating from the the library of the metropolitans and patriarchs of All Russia, including some manuscripts from the seventeenth-century Tsar’s Library, along with manuscripts from many cathedrals and monasteries in the Moscow region and the second largest collection of Greek manuscripts in Russia. There are manuscript books from collections of the Cathedral of St. Michael the Archangel (Arkhangel'skii) and the Cathedral of the Dormition (Uspenskii) in the Kremlin, and of the Chudov, Voskresenskii, Donskoi, and Simonov Monasteries, which had been acquired by the Synodal Library before 1917 (subsidiary collections within the Synodal Collection are retained separately in their integrity). The Synodal Collection includes part of the former Library of the Moscow Eparchy, which was transferred to the Synodal Library earlier as the Eparchial (Eparkhial'noe) Collection. That component consists of manuscripts from the Joseph of Volokolamsk (Iosifo-Volokolamskii), Andronikov (Spaso-Andronievskii), Novodevichii, Borovskii-Pafnutiev (Kaluga Oblast), Solovetskii, Voskresenskii (Novoierusalimskii, or New Jerusalem), and other Russian monasteries. (Another part of the Eparchial Collection is in RGB—G-1). Among the world-wide renowned manuscripts in the Synodal Collection are the Anthology of Sviatoslav (Izbornik Sviatoslava) (1073), the Mstislav Gospels (12th c.), Metropolitan Makarii’s Great Lives of Saints (Velikie Chet'i- Minei) (16th c.), and other early copies of ecclesiastical manuscripts. The most important historical manuscripts in the Synodal Collection include the mid-thirteenth to early fourteenth-century copy of the First Novgorod Chronicle (Pervaia Novgorodskaia letopis'), the 1544 copy of the Fourth Novgorod Chronicle (Chetvertaia Novgorodskaia letopis'), and the Illuminated Chronicle Codex (Litsevoi letopisnyi svod) of the sixteenth century. Juridical manuscripts in the Synodal Collection include the twelfth-century Efremov Nomocanon (Efremovskaia kormchaia) and the Kliment Nomocanon (Klimentovskaia kormchaia) of 1281, which include the earliest copies of the medieval Rus' Code of Laws (Pravda Russkaia). The division contains one of the best separate Synodal choral collection (Sinodal'no-pevcheskaia kollektsiia), which includes early manuscript liturgical music scores. Among the Greek manuscripts in the Synodal Collection are books that were brought back in the 17th century from Mount Athos by A. Sukhanov and individual acquisitions from other collections. These include folios from a sixth-century Greek parchment Book of the Apostles (i.e. Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles), eleventh- to twelfth-century Gospels, and secular manuscripts on literary, juridical, and medical subjects. There are also a number of South Slavic manuscripts. The Synodal Collection contains a large number of scrolls. Apart from documents of a doctrinal, administrative, and economic nature, are twelve scrolls relating to the legal disputes of Patriarch Nikon, as well as documents relating to the schism (raskol), to the Solovetskii Uprising (1656–1657), and correspondence of the Orthodox hierarchy in Ukraine and Belarus and between Ukrainian hetmen and the Moscow Patriarchate. The particularly rich Museum Collection (consisting mostly of GIM individual acquisitions) includes a number of illuminated manuscripts, among them the first volume of the Illuminated Chronicle Codex (Litsevoi letopisnyi svod) of the sixteenth century and the Onega Psalter of 1395. It also has Old Believer manuscripts illustrated with miniatures, fifteenth-century chronicles, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century chronicles, and sixteenth-century codes of laws. In 1983 a Second Museum Collection (Muzeiskoe 2-e sobranie) was started, together with the Museum Collection of Early Printed Books. The division has a large number of printed books, manuscripts, and documents from Old Believer monasteries and communities. Many of these are found in the collection of the Moscow Eparchial Library and the Nikolskii Old Believer Monastery (Nikol'skii edinovercheskii monastyr'), and include books on monastic rules, Old Believer religious polemics, and choral manuscripts (17th–19th cc.). Private collections have significantly augmented the division holdings building on its previous collections. The most valuable collections of manuscript books and manuscripts were received from E.V. Barsov, A.S. Uvarov, P.I. Shchukin, A.I. Khludov (part of the Khludov collection is held in the Russian State Library (RGB—G-1). Later the division was augmented with the collections of Field Marshal A.I. Bariatinskii, followed by the collections of I.A. Vakhrameev (1,075 manuscripts), the Chertkov family, the historian A.P. Bakhrushin, and I.E. Zabelin, one of the founders of the museum. Among the most significant postrevolutionary acquisitions from private sources was the collection of N.P. Vostriakov. A collection of birchbark documents from the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries was formed in 1952, and has been continually augmented by many archeological excavations in Novgorod and other areas. N.B. Many of the private collections acquired by GIM both before and after 1917 have been divided between the Division of Written Sources and the Division of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books. Working conditions: The division reopened in 2001 in the main building of GIM, and in 2004 reading room of the division reopened. A permit to the division should be ordered 2-3 days before visit. Muscovites should come to the division to order materials; orders are delivered on the next working day. Visiting and foreign researchers may order materials by phone (preferable) or by e-mail. Orders limited to 5 manuscripts per day. For more details see webpage of the Division: http://www.shm.ru/issledovatelyam/nau... and British guide: Russian & Ukrainian Archives Guide available electronically: https://research.reading.ac.uk/archiv.... Reference facilities: There are brief scholarly descriptions of all manuscripts and early printed books in an alphabetical and chronological card catalogue. Of particular importance, card files (with many entries based on earlier published descriptions), contain references to individual works (many entries with incipits) within codices held by the division. There are also inventories of each collection and specialized thematic card catalogues for miniatures, inscriptions on manuscripts and early printed books, music manuscripts, and birchbark charters, among others. All are searchable in the database accessible in the reading room. Library facilities: There is an auxiliary library (ca. 5,000 volumes) located in the Division of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, which is accessible to researchers. It is covered by a reference card and electronic catalogues available through the reading room. Copy facilities: Scan copies may be ordered and obtained through the Foreign department of the museum by e-mail: [email protected]. |
