Voloshchenko S. Jerusalem Typikon of the 15th-17th Centuries: Codicological Research of Cyrillic Handwritten Copies in Collections of Ukraine.

The dissertation is based on the complex codicological research of Cyrillic copies of Jerusalem Typikon. Manuscripts are studied as an integral historical and cultural source. The study is composed on the basis of considerable data from primary sources: Jerusalem Typika copies, old catalogues, inventories, visitation data and early printed books. The analysis of historiography concludes that the special study for this book type has not yet existed. The research of examined manuscripts was begun in the second half of the 19th century by Vasily Berezin and Mykola Petrov. Their studies were concluded by publishing the catalogues, including the description of certain church collections, concentrated in Kyiv. The source basis of the dissertation thesis consists of 64 Cyrillic copies of Jerusalem Typikon, which are stored in Collections of Ukraine Scientifics Libraries and Museums. The examination of primary sources in the dissertation made it possible to reveal that manuscripts were transferred to their current storing places in the 20th century. On the basis of donator's and owner's inscriptions in books, from the information in colophons, inventories and visitation descriptions the names of manuscripts during their use according to their intended purpose are defined. The held research of titles has shown that copies were named as Ustav, not Typikon, in contradiction with 19-century and, partly, 20-century liturgists' and theologists' opinion. The detailed study of the manuscript's content made it possible to determine their composition and content structure. The manuscripts are composed of main and additional parts. In the main part, the Statute of Divine Service, Menologium, Akoluthia of Quartodecima, Pentecost, St. Peter and Paul Lent are placed, supplemented with the St. Mark's Capitula in some cases. The additional part consists of texts of Troparia, Kondakia, Prokimena, Allelujaria and Common Services for Saints, and other Akoluthia as well. The watermark research made it possible to establish creation dates for codices written between the last third of the 15th century and the beginning of the second third of the 17th century. The examination of colophons and marginalia has allowed determining that nine manuscripts of 64 examined copies had had the exact date of re-writing.