Activities of national monasteries, monasticism and national handwritten spiritual heritage

Abstract

Most of the manuscript monuments of Ukrainian spirituality of the XI-XVII centuries. (chronicles, chronographs, vaults, collections, etc., not to mention hagiographical collections, paternities), preserved in our days, by their origin, origin, content, use, historical fate, are in many cases obliged to the Institute of monasteries and monks. , copyists, compilers, editors, portholes, translators, proofreaders. This statement is supported by research by scientists of several generations of chronicle sources in a wide range - from outstanding chronicles and printed monuments of world and national significance of the level "Words on Law and Grace", "Tales of the Past Years", Kiev-Pechersk Paterik to chronicles, chronographs , chronicles of local importance (Gustinsky, Dobromilsky, Kyiv, Mgarsky, Mezhyhirsky, Ostroh, Chernihiv chronicles, Crown of the Motroninsky monastery, chronicle of Zagorovsky monastery and bog of the others), as well as "chroniclers", diaries, records of outstanding representatives of Ukrainian monasticism - Kiev-cave archimandrites Yosafat Krokowski, Varlaam Yasinsky, saint, abbot of several Ukrainian monasteries Dimitri (Danylo) Tuptalsky, petimantry Tombs, abbot of Brest monastery Afanasii Filipovich and others.