Добрынина Элена,
«Владельческие записи иеромонаха Неофита в рукописях афонского монастыря Констамонит», Византийский Временик, т. 100 (75) (2016), 2017, с. 161–167 + рус. 1–8.
Москва 2017
Summary
The present work examines five Greek manuscripts which contain the identical keeper’s notes. In all of them Neophytos, a hieromonk of the Konstamonitou monastery, named as owner. The notes were written by different hands in the end of 15th or in the beginning of the 16th century. In the middle of the nineteenth century a famous Russian traveler and collector Petr Ivanovitch Sevastyanov (1811–1867) brought to Russia from one of his trips to Mount Athos two fourteenth century fragments of the “Λόγος πρὸς τὸν ποιμένα” by Joannes Climacus. Now they are kept at the Russian State library (f. 270/Iа, № 72.10; f. 270/Iа, № 74.23). During the process of restoration at the Grabar Art Conservation Center in 2016 these fragments were identified as early belonged to the same codex. I directly established their origin from the Konstamonitou monastery on the base of deciphered ownership note: «αὑτη αἱ βήβλος ὑπάρχι της μον(ης) τοῦ Κωνσταντ(ος) κ(αὶ) ἥτης ἀποξενώσι αυ(την) ἐχέτο τὴν ἁραν, τὸν· τ·ι·η·ʹ Νεόφυτ(ος) ἱερομόναχ(ος)». Paleographical and lexical analysis of the notes in other gathered manuscripts gives an indication of the books which were preserved in the monastery in this period and later were carried around the world. Now they are kept at the Biblothèque nationale de France, Coislin 341, at the British library, Add. 5116 (+ Add. 5115) and in the Oxford’s Christ Church College, gr. 15 and gr. 33. The richly illuminated Imperial Menologion for February and March of the first part of the eleventh century from the State Historical Museum in Moscow (Syn. gr. 189) adjoins to this group of manuscripts. It contains a very close keeper’s note in the same formula but without name of hieromonk Neophytos. On the base of collected keeper’s notes we can provide more concrete overview of the books in the library of the Konstamonitou monastery as well as the use of these books by its inhabitants.
