Ucrainica at Harvard
The Ukrainian Research Institute's 25th-Anniversary Exhibition at Houghton Library, Harvard University
The Ukrainian Research Institute's 25th-Anniversary Exhibition at Houghton Library, Harvard University
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.