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Protas'eva, Tat'iana Nikolaevna; and Shchepkina, Marfa Viacheslavovna. Sokrovishcha drevnei pis'mennosti i staroi pechati: Obzor rukopisei russkikh, slavianskikh, grecheskikh, a takzhe knig staroi pechati Gosudarstvennogo Istoricheskogo muzeia. Edited by T. V. Dianova. 2d ed. Moscow, 1995. 104 p. (Lib: IU)
1st ED.: Edited by M. N. Tikhomirov. M.: "Sovetskaia Rossiia," 1958. 87 p. "Trudy GIM: Pamiatniki kul'tury," vol. 30.
[IDC-R-11,018]
The 1978 edition surveys 27 collections of medieval manuscripts and 7 collections of early printed books. The second edition (1995) reprints and updates the surveys, and adds a comprehensive bibliography of published literature, including earlier catalogues of manuscript descriptions and related reference literature.
Levochkin, Ivan Vasil'evich. "Opisaniia rukopisei Gosudarstvennogo Istoricheskogo muzeia: XIX–nach. XX vv." In Problemy nauchnogo opisaniia rukopisei i faksimil'nogo izdaniia pamiatnikov pis'mennosti: Materialy Vsesoiuznoi konferentsii, edited by M. V. Kukushkina et al., pp. 151–160. Leningrad: "Nauka," Leningradskoe otdelenie, 1981. [AN SSSR; BAN; AK]
[IDC-in R-14,774]
A detailed bibliographic review of available scholarly descriptions covering manuscript collections in GIM, together with related reference materials.
Pis'mennye istochniki v sobranii Gosudarstvennogo Istoricheskogo muzeia. Vol. 1.
Compiled by S. I. Sakovich.
Edited by S. Margolin.
Moscow, 1958. 110 p.
[IDC-R-11,021]
A detailed survey of archival fonds in the Division of Written Sources, including feudal estate records; collections of seventeenth-century charters; personal papers of scholars and cultural leaders (18th–19th cc.); nineteenth-century private collections of historical sources; and documents relating to the history of the revolutionary movement in Russia. An appendix lists personal papers.
Putevoditel' po fondam lichnogo proiskhozhdeniia Otdela pis'mennykh istochnikov Gosudarstvennogo Istoricheskogo muzeia.
Compiled by E. I. Bakst et al.
Edited by I. S. Kalantyrskaia and V. G. Verzhbitskii.
Moscow: "Sovetskaia Rossiia," 1967. 388 p.
[IDC-R-11,022]
An annotated guide to the personal papers of prominent prerevolutionary Russians that are held in the division, covering approximately 95% of the fonds with detailed indexes.
Navrot, M. I. "Katalog gravirovannykh kart Rossii XVI–XVIII vv. i reproduktsii s nikh, khraniashchikhsia v Otdele istoricheskoi geografii i kartografii Gosudarstvennogo Istoricheskogo muzeia." Istoriia geograficheskikh znanii i istoricheskaia geografiia. Etnografiia 4 (1970): 39–43.
[IDC-in R-11,023]
A short description of engraved maps in the GIM collections.
Navrot, M. I. "Katalog rukopisnykh istoricheskikh kart XVIII–XX vv., khraniashchikhsia v fondakh Gosudarstvennogo Istoricheskogo muzeia."
Istoriia geograficheskikh znanii i istoricheskaia geografiia. Etnografiia 2 (1967): 17–19.
[IDC-in R-11,023]
A short description of manuscript maps in GIM collections, and the reference system for them.
Otchet Imperatorskogo Rossiiskogo Istoricheskogo muzeia imeni Imperatora Aleksandra III v Moskve za 1905 god . . . –[. . . za 1914 god].
11 vols.
Moscow, 1906–1926.
Final vol.: Otchet Gosudarstvennogo Istoricheskogo muzeia za 1916–1925 gg. (
[IDC-R-11,191]
Reports issued by the prerevolutionary Historical Museum containing significant information about the manuscript holdings. The final volume reports acquisitions through 1925.
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Parchment Manuscripts
Shchepkina, Marfa Viacheslavovna; Protas'eva, Tat'iana Nikolaevna; Kostiukhina, L. M., et al. "
Opisanie pergamentnykh rukopisei Gosudarstvennogo Istoricheskogo muzeia."
2 parts. Moscow, 1966–1967.
[IDC-R-10,379; and in R-10,754]
Part 1: "Russkie rukopisi." Arkheograficheskii ezhegodnik za 1964 god (1966): 135–234;
Part 2: "Rukopisi bolgarskie, serbskie, moldavskie." Arkheograficheskii ezhegodnik za 1965 god (1967): 273–309.
Synodal Collection
Opisanie slavianskikh rukopisei Moskovskoi Sinodal'noi (Patriarshei) biblioteki. Compiled by A. V. Gorskii and K. I. Nevostruev.
3 parts, 6 vols.
Moscow: Sinodal'naia tip., 1855–1917.
[IDC-R-10,324]
REPRINT ED.: Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1964. "Monumenta linquae slavicae dialecti veteris," vol. 2.
INDEX: See below.
SUPPLEMENT: See below.
Provides scholarly descriptions of Slavonic manuscripts (up to no. 576) from the Library of the Holy Synod that were transferred to the Historical Museum after 1917.
Vitoshinskii, E. M.
Ukazatel' imennoi i predmetnyi k trudu A. V. Gorskogo i K. I. Nevostrueva "Opisanie slavianskikh rukopisei Moskovskoi Sinodal'noi biblioteki." Warsaw, 1915. vi, 316 p.
[IDC-R-11,195]
REPRINT ED.: Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1964. "Monumenta linquae slavicae dialecti veteris," vol. 6.
Provides alphabetic and subject indexes and an index of proper names to the first four volumes of Gorskii and Nevostruev’s catalogue of Slavonic manuscripts Not complete, even for volumes covered.
Protas'eva, Tat'iana Nikolaevna.
Opisanie rukopisei Sinodal'nogo sobraniia (ne voshedshikh v opisanie A. V. Gorskogo i K. I. Nevostrueva).
Edited by M. Shchepkina. 2 vols.
Moscow, 1970–1973. xxv, 211 p. + 19 plates; 164 p.
[IDC-R-11,098]
Continues the scholarly description of Slavonic manuscripts from the Synodal Library (nos. 577 to 1051), which were not included in the prerevolutionary catalogue. Provides detailed bibliography of previous descriptions of each manuscript, name and subject indexes, and a correlation table for earlier manuscript catalogue numbers.
Popov, Nikolai Petrovich.
Rukopisi Moskovskoi Sinodal'noi (Patriarshei) biblioteki. 2 vols.
Moscow, 1905–1910.
[IDC-R-7319]
Vol. 1: Novospasskoe sobranie. Moscow: Tip. O. O. Gerbeka, 1905. viii, 189 p. + 3 plates.
Vol. 2: Sobranie rukopisei Moskovskogo Simonova monastyria. Moscow, 1910. viii, 214 p.
EARLIER ED. in Chteniia v Imperatorskom Obshchestve istorii i drevnostei rossiiskikh pri Moskovskom universitete (ChOIDR) 233 (1910, no. 2): i-vii, 1–214.
The first two volumes of a larger projected catalogue covering manuscripts from religious institutions in the Moscow area that were acquired by the Synodal Library and are now held in GIM. Vol. 1 describes 18 manuscripts from the Novospasskii Monastery and vol. 2 describes 70 manuscripts from the Simonov Monastery.
Savva, Archbishop of Tver and Kashin (Archimandrite).
Ukazatel' dlia obozreniia Moskovskoi Patriarshei (nyne Sinodal'noi) riznitsy i biblioteki.
3d ed. Moscow: Universitetskaia tip., 1859. iii, iii, 126, viii, 292, 40, iv, 2 p.
[IDC-R-7324]
2d ED.: Ukazatel' dlia obozreniia Moskovskoi patriarshei (nyne sinodal'noi) biblioteki: s prilozheniem poiasnitel'nago slovaria neudoboponiatnykh slov i nazvanii predmetov, vstrechaiushchikhsia v knige. Moscow: V Universitetskoi tip., 1858. ii, 126 p, 33, iv, ii p. (Lib: DLC)
1st ED.: Moscow, 1855.
An early survey and descriptions of the manuscripts in the Synodal Library now held in GIM. The code numbers cited by Savva are correlated to current ones in the more recent supplementary catalogues listed above. The third edition contains a reprint of the earlier separate 1858 description of the ecclesiastical holdings in the sacristy (riznitsa) as well as the descriptions of the manuscripts in the library as its two component parts, and is the last one that covers manuscripts in the Synodal Library. There are fourth (1863) and fifth (1883) editions of the description of holdings in the sacristy, but these do not include any manuscripts.
Synodal Collection—Greek Manuscripts
Vladimir, Archimandrite (Filantropov, Vasilii).
Sistematicheskoe opisanie rukopisei Moskovskoi Sinodal'noi (Patriarshei) biblioteki.
Pt. 1: Rukopisi grecheskie.
Moscow, 1894. 885 p.
[IDC-R-7043]
GREEK VERSION: Moskovskaia sinodal'naia biblioteka rukopisei: Ocherk kataloga nakhodiashchikhsia v Kremle grecheskikh rukopisei/ He en Moscha Synodike Vivliotheke ton cheirographon.
Compiled by Archimandrite Iakov Vatopedskii.
Moscow: Tip. E. Lissnera i Iu. Romana, 1896. 71 p. Added title page and text in Greek.
Provides scholarly descriptions of Greek manuscripts from the Synodal Library that are now held in GIM.
Chudov Collection
Protas'eva, Tat'iana Nikolaevna.
Opisanie rukopisei Chudovskogo sobraniia.
Edited by N. Pokrovskii.
Novosibirsk: "Nauka," 1986. 232 p.
[AN SSSR, Sibirskoe otdelenie; Institut istorii, filologii i filosofii; Minkul't RSFSR; GIM] (Lib: DLC; IU; MH)
EARLIER SURVEY: Petrov, N. P. "Knigokhranilishche Chudova monastyria" Pamiatniki drevnei pis'mennosti 5:4 (1897): 141–99.
[IDC-R-11,193]
A scholarly description of 372 manuscripts from the Chudov Monastery in the Kremlin, which became part of the Synodal Library and were subsequently transferred to GIM. Includes an extensive bibliography, geographic, subject, and proper-name indexes.
Synodal Collection—Eparchial Library
Amfilokhii, Archimandrite (Sergievskii, Pavel Ivanovich).
Opisanie Voskresenskoi Ierusalimskoi biblioteki . . . s prilozheniem snimkov so vsekh pergamennykh rukopisei i nekotorykh pisannykh na bumage.
Moscow: Sinodal'naia tip., 1875. 9, ii, 216 p. + 18 ill.
[IDC-R-11,198]
A description of 242 manuscripts from the library of the Voskresenskii (Novoierusalimskii) Monastery, 33 of which are on parchment. See also the later description by Stroev.
Stroev, Pavel Mikhailovich.
Opisanie rukopisei monastyrei Volokolamskogo, Novyi-Ierusalim, Savvina-Storozhevskogo i Pafnutieva-Borovskogo.
St. Petersburg, 1891. xviii, 343 p. "
Obshchestvo liubitelei drevnei pis'mennosti [Izdanie]," vol. 98.
[IDC-R-7337; 1030 mf. 399-405]
Describes 141 manuscript books from the Voskresenskii (Novoierusalimskii) Monastery, the majority of which are part of the Eparchial Collection in GIM and were earlier held in the Synodal Library. Also describes 690 manuscript books from the Joseph of Volokolamsk Monastery, before the collection was split; those that were transferred to the Moscow Eparchial Library are now in GIM (others are in RGB). There are also descriptions of 47 manuscript books from the Borovskii Pafnut'ev Monastery in Kaluga Oblast, some of which are to be found in GIM (although that collection was later dispersed).
Vakhrameev Collection
Titov, Andrei Aleksandrovich.
Rukopisi slavianskie i russkie, prinadlezhashchie . . . I. A. Vakhrameevu. 6 vols.
Moscow/Sergiev Posad: Tip. E. Lissnera i Iu. Romanova, 1888–1907.
[IDC-R-7290]
Describes 1,132 manuscripts from the I. A. Vakhrameev Collection, 1,075 of which are held in GIM.
Uvarov Collection
Leonid, Archimandrite (Kavelin, Lev Aleksandrovich).
Sistematicheskoe opisanie slaviano-russkikh rukopisei sobraniia grafa A. S. Uvarova. 4 vols.
Moscow: Tip. A. I. Mamontova, 1893–1894. 695 p. + plates; 578 p. + plates; 364 p.; 564 p.
[IDC-R-7296]
CORRELATION TABLE: Druzhinin, Vasilii Grigor'evich. "Tablitsy dlia otyskaniia rukopisei sobraniia A. S. Uvarova v opisanii etogo sobraniia, sostavlennom arkhim. Leonidom i izdannom v 4 tomakh v Moskve v 1893–1894 gg." Izvestiia Otdeleniia russkogo iazyka i slovesnosti Imperatorskoi Akademii nauk 28:1 (1923): 259–72.
[IDC-in R-7296].
Provides a scholarly description of 2,243 Slavonic manuscripts that once belonged to A. S. Uvarov, including those earlier belonging to I. N. Tsarskii.
Stroev, Pavel Mikhailovich.
Rukopisi slavianskie i rossiiskie, prinadlezhashchie . . . Ivanu Nikitichu Tsarskomu.
Moscow: Tip. V. Got'e, 1848. 918 p.
[IDC-R-7338]
A description of 749 Slavonic manuscripts and 194 historical documents that once belonged to I. N. Tsarskii, were acquired by A. S. Uvarov in 1853, and are now held in GIM as part of the Uvarov Collection. These descriptions were subsequently included in Archimandrite Leonid’s work .
[Sakharov, Ivan Petrovich]
Slaviano-russkie rukopisi: Otdelenie pervoe.
St. Petersburg: Tip. Sakharova, 1839. 32 p.
Variant edition: St. Petersburg, 1842. 40 p.
[IDC-R-11,150]
Describes 46 manuscripts that were part of the Sakharov Collection, but were subsequently acquired by Uvarov. They are currently held in GIM, although part are in RGB (fond 550).
Kataev, I. M.; and Kabanov, A. K.
Opisanie aktov sobraniia grafa A. S. Uvarova: Akty istoricheskie.
Edited by M. Dovnar-Zapol'skii.
Moscow: Tip. G. Lessnera i D. Sobko, 1905. vii, 666 p.
[IDC-R-11,202]
An indexed description of 995 charters, legal acts, and other historical documents (15th–18th cc.) that are now part of the Uvarov collection.
Khludov Collection
Popov, Andrei Nikolaevich.
Opisanie rukopisei i katalog knig tserkovnoi pechati biblioteki A. I. Khludova.
Moscow: Sinodal'naia tip., 1872. x, 664, 54 p.
[IDC-R-7318]
SUPPLEMENT: Pervoe pribavlenie k opisaniiu rukopisei i katalogu knig tserkovnoi pechati biblioteki A. I. Khludova. M.: Sinodal'naia tip., 1875. iii, 94 p.
[IDC-in R-7318].
Describes 361 Slavonic manuscripts from the A. I. Khludov library currently held in GIM. The supplemental section in the initial volume (pp. 1–54) covers Slavonic printed books. Part of the Khludov Collection is held in RGB.
Shchukin Collection
Iatsimirskii, Aleksandr Ivanovich.
Opis' starinnykh slavianskikh i russkikh rukopisei sobraniia P. I. Shchukina. 2 vols.
Moscow: Izd. P. I. Shchukina, 1896–1897. 369 p.; 278 p.
[IDC-R-7287]
A description of 488 Slavonic manuscripts from the P. I. Shchukin Collection held in GIM.
Borkovskii, V. I.; Artsikhovskii, Artemii Vladimirovich; and Tikhomirov, Mikhail Nikolaevich.
Novgorodskie gramoty na bereste (iz raskopok 1951 g.) through ——[...(iz raskopok 1983 g.)]. Unnumbered series [8] vols.
Moscow: Izd-vo AN SSSR/ "Nauka," 1953–1989.
Authors vary for individual volumes.
[IDC-R-10,110; R-10,113; R-11,197; R-11,200(inc)]
A series of detailed analyses with transcribed texts of the birchbark documents found in archeological excavations in Novgorod between the years 1951 and 1989. The eighth volume contains commentaries and a word index to the documents found between 1951 and 1983.
Kalantyrskaia, I. S.
"Materialy po istorii russkogo teatra XVIII–XX vv. v OPI GIM v Moskve."
In Teatr i muzyka: Dokumenty i materialy,
edited by I. Petrovskaia et al., pp. 91–104.
Moscow/Leningrad: Izd-vo AN SSSR, 1963.
[IDC-in R-10,753]
Samgina, E. I.
"Obzor fonda Saltykovykh v Gosudarstvennom Istoricheskom muzee."
Arkheograficheskii ezhegodnik za 1970 god (1971): 294–99.
[IDC-in R-10,754 mf. 114–20]
Surveys documents from the Saltykov family archive (1616–1757).
Riumina, T. D.
"Arkhiv moskvoveda P. N. Millera v OPI GIM."
Arkheograficheskii ezhegodnik za 1971 god (1972): 344–46.
[IDC-in R-10,754 mf. 121–28]
Surveys the historian of local Moscow history, Petr Nikolaevich Miller (1859–1943) held in GIM (fond 134). Additional Miller papers are held in the Museum of the History of the City of Moscow (fond 8169).
Filimonov, Sergei Borisovich. "
Obzor arkhiva M. I. Smirnova."
Arkheograficheskii ezhegodnik za 1971 god (1972): 318–24.
[IDC-in R-10,754 mf. 121–28]
Surveys the papers of the Soviet historian of local history, M. I. Smirnov (1866–1949) held in GIM (fond 191). Additional Smirnov papers are held in the State Archive of Iaroslavl Oblast. Includes a complete bibliography of Smirnov’s publications.
Krasavin, A. S.
"Obzor dokumental'nykh materialov kruzhka "Beseda" v fonde V. A. Maklakova."
Arkheograficheskii ezhegodnik za 1968 god (1969): 352–59.
[IDC-in R-10,754 mf. 98-106]
A detailed survey of documents relating to the liberal Beseda literary circle (1899–1905), part of which were acquired from the Russian Foreign Historical Archive (RZIA) in Prague. Includes a list of members of the circle. See also the review of these materials by Terence Emmons, "The Beseda Circle 1899–1905," Slavic Review 32 (Sept. 1973): 461–90.
Navrot, M. I.
"Katalog gravirovannykh i rukopisnykh kart Sibiri XVI–XVII vv., khraniashchikhsia v sektore kartografii Istoricheskogo muzeia."
Istoriia geograficheskikh znanii i istoricheskaia geografiia. Etnografiia 5 (1971): 34–38.
[IDC-in R-11,023]
A short description of sixteenth and seventeenth century maps of Siberia held in the State Historical Museum.