Done by: Roksolana Zelinska

Book printing in Ukraine

The oldest book using the Cyrillic alphabet was “Ostromyrove Yevanheliye” (the Gospels of Ostromyr, 1056—1057). It was only natural that the literary works of the ancient times were of a religious nature (sermons, hymns, etc.).

Books in Ukraine

At first books were written using specially treated animal skin, called parchment. It was very expensive, and from the 14th century paper was mostly used.

With time the

number of books

grew. Yaroslav

the Wise set up a

library at St.

Sophia

Cathedral.

During the

Ukrainian

renaissance

(16th—17th

centuries) a lot

of libraries

appeared in

Ostroh, Lviv,

Kyiv’s Monastery

of the Caves.

“The Apostle ” (1574)

Book printing came to Ukraine from the West, long before Fedorov’s first book appeared in print in Moscow. Ivan Fedorov was a founder of book printing in Ukrainian lands. The first printed books in Ukraine were

“The Bible of Ostroh ” (1581)

The following statistics testify to the development of book printing in Ukraine: in 1591—1622, the print shop of Lviv put out 13 books; the one at the Kyiv Monastery of the Caves — 40 books; the print shop in Chemihiv produced more than 50 books over a short period of time.

Lviv shopKyiv Monastery of the CavesChemihiv shop

A new type of literature, fiction, appeared in Ukraine at the end of the 18th century. Public libraries began to function in many Ukrainian cities and towns. The situation with Ukrainian books changed after the revolution of 1917.

A new stage in book printing in Ukraine began in 1980. A number of new publishing houses specializing in a variety of spheres were set up. . Book printing became an inseparable component of the national economy, assuming an important role in the democratization of society, in the cultural and linguistic rebirth of the nation.

In the early 1990s

Ukraine

numerated

25,292 public and

university

libraries with

over 400.9 million

volumes, of which

books and

magazines in

Ukrainian

constituted 36%.

The biggest collections are at the Vernadsky Central Reference Library of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences (some 13,000,000).

In Ukraine, the appearance of prints ruled manuscript book, which was a work of art.

Later Lviv printing continues the tradition of national press, but its activity is not a formal imitation of printing practices. In his first publications printing Lviv Brotherhood tried to reform the Church Slavonic Cyrillic font.

The first

edition of

the Lviv

Brotherh

ood were

decorated

very

modestly

But in the next

editions ("Book

of Hours,"

1609,

"Discussions of

education John

Chrysostom at

chad" in 1609)

there is a new

element of

decoration - a

plot-fashioned

engraving.

"Book of Hours" (1609)

Discussions of education John Chrysostom at chad (1609)

One of the centers of publishing in Ukraine was Pechersk Lavra. First, who began printing in Pechersk Lavra – E.Pletenetsky (1599-1624).

Over 8 years of its launch (from 1617-1624 was,) Lavra published 11 major books.

Books - ships thoughts, wandering through the waves of time and carefully carry your precious freight from generation to generation.

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