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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