5. Josyf Dekamilis (1641-1706), Bishop of Mukachiv.
Katekhesys
(The Catechism)
Ternava, 1698.
This catechism, translated into Ukrainian by the Galician-Ukrainian priest Ioan Kornyts'kyi, is the first text printed for the use of Carpatho-Ruthenians.
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Ihor Galarnyk, July 1975.
6. Petro Mohyla (1597-1647), Metropolitan of Kyiv and Galicia.
Orthodoxa confessio catholicae atque apostolicae ecclesiae orientalis
Leipzig: J. Thomam Fritsch, 1695.
This catechism was originally written in Greek by Petro Mohyla (1597-1647), and then translated into Latin by Lars Norrman. Mohyla established the Kyiv Mohyla Academy in 1632 and also helped guide the Kyivan Caves Monastery Press.
Duplicate Fund, July 1971. From the Library of G. J. Arvanitidi.
7. Poluustav s'derzhashchii v sebe dnevnuiu i nochnuiu sluzhbu
Kyiv: Kyivan Caves Monastery, 1682.
The Kyivan Caves Monastery Press was the most important center of printing and engraving in Ukraine during the 17th and 18th centuries. The imprimery issued several hundred titles on various subjects, both original works and translations , in Ukrainian, Church Slavonic, Polish, Russian, Latin, and Greek. The books printed included many ecclesiastical and liturgical texts, such as the Church Slavonic liturgy shown here, as well as primers, hagiographic studies, Orthodox polemical treatises, didactic works, and literary works.
Bayard L. Kilgour, Jr. Fund, June 1970.
8. Jedrzej Mlodzianowski (1627-1686)
Icones symbolicae vitae et mortis B. Iosaphat martyris, Archiepiscopi Polocensis: expressae, et perillustri domino Di Georgia Stanislao Sapieha oblatae
Vilnius: Iesu, 1675.
This emblem book contains a brief biography of Saint Josaphat (ca. 1580-1623). He was canonized in 1867 by Pope Pius IX, and thus became the first eastern-rite saint in the Catholic Church.
Bayard L. Kilgour, Jr. Fund, February 1970.
9. Ivan Mazepa Koledyns'kyi (1639-1709)
"Universal of 1691"
Baturyn, 14 October 1691.
A confirmatory charter to the possession and usufruct of a water-mill for a distinguished member of the Host, Gregory Karpovich, situated on the Oster River, tributary of the Desna. The universal is written in the contemporary literary Ukrainian language of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and carries the Hetman's seal and signature dated in Baturyn, 14 October 1691.
Gift of Curt H. Reisinger, purchased from Israel Perlstein, 1952.