DOI 10.51255/2311–603X_2025_1_155

M. V. Korogodina, N. N. Levchenko. Convolute or miscellany: the problem of typology //
Petersburg historical journal, no. 1, 2025, pp. 155–164

Abstract:
Researchers of the manuscripts often use the terms “convolute”, “miscellany” or “collected
manuscript”, “miscellany with additions”, putting different concepts into them. The article examines codices that have a complex structure: books collected in monasteries from fragments of earlier manuscripts, or compiled by a scribe over decades. In some cases, parts of the codex are united by dating, theme or scribe, though other features do not allow to consider the manuscript written at the same time. Such books require detailed descriptions. The authors of the article offer their definitions of the terms “convolute” and “miscellany”, relating the first to the codicological structure of the manuscript, and the second to its content.

Key words: codicology, palaeography, Slavic manuscripts, archeography, convolute.

Author:

Korogodina, Maria Vladimirovna — Dr. in History, the Main Researcher, Head of the Manuscript
Department of the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg, Russia).
E-mail: mvkorogod@gmail.com

Author:

Levchenko, Nadezhda Nikolayevna — the Chief Librarian of the Manuscript Department of the
Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg, Russia).
E-mail: nadule612@gmail.com

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