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Old Russian Manuscripts of the Pushkinskii Dom (IRLAN)

In 1994 the Department of Defense made a long-term loan of microfilming equipment to the Institute of Russian Literature--Pushkin House in St. Petersburg, Russia in order to make available on microfilm medieval Russian manuscripts not hitherto accessible in the United States and to assist the internal preservation and conservation program of the Institute. A small committee of scholars prepared a list of medieval Russian manuscripts to be filmed under the project, which is coordinated by the Library of Congress.

The Pushkin House maintains one of the richest collections of medieval Russian manuscripts in the world. The manuscripts selected for filming by the Library of Congress represent those that are of greatest scholarly value from a linguistic, historical, religious, and artistic point of view.

Researchers may view this microfilm in the European Reading Room. A guide to the reel contents is presented below.

Catalog record for the collection.

Sample image from Pushkinskii Dom collection

Reel	Contents	Year/Century
S-2*	Sbornik; Karel'skoe sobr. no. 476	early 15th-late 17th C.
S-3	Sbornik sluzhebnyi; kollektsiia V. N. Perettsa, no. 21 Slova postnicheskie Vasiliia Velikogo	1405-early 16th C. 1482
S-4	Sinodik Iosifo-Volokolamskogo monastyria, otdel'nye postupleniia, op. 32, no. 52 Evangelie ot Ioanna (na grecheskom iazyke); kollektsiia V. N. Perettsa, no. 1 (glavy XVIII, 22-XXI, 15) Evangelie Aprakos Polnyi, op. 25, no. 30 Pandekty Nikona Chernogortsa (glavy 37-63), op. 23, no. 19** Apostol; Novgorodsko-Pskovskoe sobr. no. 21	1479 12th-13th C. 1360s-1380s late 15th C. late 15th-early 16th C.
S-5	Evangelie uchitel'noe; kollektsiia V. N. Perettsa, no. 9	late 15th-early 16th C.
S-5/6	Kormchaia; Novgorodsko-Sofiiskoi redaktsii, Prichudskoe sobr. no. 48	1510s
S-6	Triod' postnaia; Ust'-TSilemskoe sobr. no. 48	1500
S-9***	16 slov Grigoriia Bogoslova s tolkovaniiami Nikity Irakliiskogo; kollektsiia V. V. Velichko, no. 2	16th C (after 3rd decade)
S-9/10	Rimskie deianiia, op. 23, no. 80	late 17th C.
S-10/11	Trefologion; kollektsiia V. N. Perettsa, no. 74	1610s-1620s
S-11/12	Sbornik sochinenii Dionisiia Areopagita s tolkovaniiami M. Islovednika; kollektsiia V. V. Velichko, no. 11	17th C., 2nd qtr.
S-12	Sbornik; kollektsiia M. F. Pershina, no. 9	17th C., 2nd qtr.
S-13	Prolog; Severodvinskoe sobr. no. 120	Mar.-Aug. 1590
S-14/15	Kormchaia; kollektsiia M. F. Pershina, no. 20	mid-17th C.
S-16	Velikoe zertsalo; kollektsiia V. N. Perettsa, no. 174	early 18th C.
S-17/18	Triod' tsvetnaia; Karel'skoe sobr. no. 535	1610s
S-19	Psaltyr' tolkovaia; kollektsiia F. A. Kalikina, no. 72	1530s-1540s
S-20	Sbornik; otdel'nye postupleniia, op. 24, no. 26	16th C.
S-21	Zhitie i chudesa Antoniia Siiskogo, sluzhba emu (s dopolneniiami); otdel'nye postupleniia, op. 23, no. 292	1670s-1680s-2nd qtr. 18th C.
S-21/22	Sbornik; Pinezhskoe sobr. no. 113	late 17th-last qtr. 18th C.
S29/30 ********	Sbornik; kollektsiia V. V. Velichko, no. 12	2nd-4th qtr. 17th C
S-30	Sbornik sluzhebnyi; kollektsiia V. N. Perettsa, no. 113	1610s-1620s
S-31	Sbornik; Severodvinskoe sobr. no. 65	mid-18th C.
S-32/S-33 *****	Sbornik; Verkhnepechorskoe sobr. no. 4	18th C. (1780s)
S-33	Sbornik; sluzhebnyi; Ust'-TSilemskoe sobr. no. 366	16th C. (last qtr.)
S-33/S-34	Kormchaia nikonovskaia; koll. V. N. Perettsa no. 307	18th C. (1760s)
S-34/S-35	Pomorskie otvety; koll. V. N. Perettsa no. 226	18th C. (1740s)
S-35	Sbornik; Ust'-TSilemskoe sobr. no. 10	17th C. (last qtr.)
	Kniga perepisnaia otvodnaia riznich'ia Solovetskogo monatyria; koll. F. A. Kolikina. no. 58	1712
S-36	Sbornik sluzhebnyi; Severodvinskoe sobr. no. 4	17th C. (1640s)
S-36-S-37	Sbornik; Otd. Postupleniia, op. 24 no. 150	16th C. (3rd qtr.)-17thC.(1st qtr.)
S-37/S-38	Sbornik; Latagal'skoe sobr. no. 329	15th C. (1470s-1480s)-19th C. (end)
S-38	Zvezda presvetlaia; Ust'-TSsilemskoe sobr. no. 143	1709
S-39	Torzhestvennik; Ust-TSilemskoe sobr. no. 150 Azbukovnik (s dopolneniiami); Otd. postupleniia, op.23, no.309.	XVIII (1720s-1730s) XVII (1620s-1630s)
S-40	Zhitie Nikolaia Mirlikiiskogo so slovami na ego rozhdestvo i perenesenia moschei; koll. M. S. Lesmana, no. 2. Zhitie Makariia Zheltovodskogo i Unzhenskogo; koll. V. V. Luki'ianiva, no. 51.	1563 XVIII (2nd qtr.) cent.

* S-1 not received

** Adverse technical conditions precluded the completion of filming of designated manuscript in the affected portion of microfilm, per filmed handwritten explanatory notice in Russian

***S-7 and S-8 not received

**** S-23 through S-28 not received

***** S-32 not received

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