A Preliminary Catalogue of Early Church Slavonic Publications

by Nikita Simmons

NOTE: This list is by no means complete; it merely catalogues all the titles and editions which I have been able to identify; further documentation needs to be done.

MOSCOW PUBLICATIONS

date	title	author/editor and publisher (where known)
1555	Evangelie	Anonimnaia tipografiia
1560	Evangelie	Anonimnaia tipografiia

Ivan Fedorov, 1563-65

date	title	author/editor and publisher (where known)
1564?	Evangelie	Ivan Fedorov and Petr Timofeev Mstislavets
1564?	Evangelie	Ivan Fedorov and Petr Timofeev Mstislavets
1564	Apostol	Ivan Fedorov and Petr Timofeev Mstislavets
1565	Chasovnik (2 separate editions)	Ivan Fedorov and Petr Timofeev Mstislavets

Andronik Timofeev Nevezha, 1576-1602

date	title	author, editor, publisher (where known)
1568	Psaltir'	Nikifor Tarasiev and Andronik Timofeev Nevezha
1577	Psaltir'	Andronik Timofeev Nevezha (Aleksandrovo sloboda)
1589	Triod' postnaia	Andronik Timofeev Nevezha
1591	Triod’ tsvetonosnaia (tsvetnaia)	Andronik Timofeev Nevezha
1594	Oktoikh. Kn. 1-2 (2 volumes)	Andronik Timofeev Nevezha
1597	Apostol	Andronik Timofeev Nevezha
1600	Mineia Obshchaia	Andronik Timofeev Nevezha; 1st edition, June 1600
1600	Mineia Obshchaia	Andronik Timofeev Nevezha; 2nd edition, August 1600

Ivan Nevezha, 1602-11; various other publishers after that

date	title	author/editor and publisher (where known)
1604	Triod' tsvetnaia	—
1606	Evangelie (naprestol'noe)	—
1606	Apostol	—
1607	Triod' postnaia	—
1616	Sluzhebnik	—
1618	Oktoikh. Glasy 5-8	—
1619	Mineia, Oktiabr'	—
1619	Mineia, Sentiabr'	—
1621	Triod' postnaia	—
1622	Mineia, Fevral'	—
1622	Mineia, Ianvar'	—
1623	Mineia, Noiabr'	—
1624	Mineia, Mart'	—
1630	Sluzhebnik (incomplete)	—
1630	Triod' tsvetnaia	—
1632	Mineia Obshchaia	—
1633	Ustav, sirech' tserkovnoe oko	—
1634	Azbuka (reprint of the Vilna 1621 Azbuka)	Printer: Vasilii Fedorov Burtsov-Protopopov
1635	Shestodnev	—
1637	Trebnik (incomplete)	—
1637	Azbuka (reprint of the Moscow 1634 Azbuka)	Printer: Vasilii Fedorov Burtsov-Protopopov (a copy is preserved in Harvard University Library)
1639	Potrebnik Inocheskii	—
1639	Potrebnik Mirskoi	—
1640	Psaltir’ s vozsledovaniem	—
1641	Prolog (Sentiabr’-Fevral’)	—
1641	Ustav, sirech’ tserkovnoe oko	—
1643	Sluzhba i zhitie Nikolaia Chudotvortsa	—
1644	Evangelie (naprestol’noe)	—
1644	Kirillova Kniga	Author unknown?
1644	Mineia, Ianvar'	—
1646	Mineia, Avgust	—
1646	Mineia, Iiul'	—
1646	Mineia, Mai	—
1647	Kniga Ioanna Lestvichnika	Author: Ioann Lestvichnik
1647	Pouchitel’nye Slovo Efrema Sirina	Author: Efrem Sirina
1648	Apostol	—
1649	Tolkovanie na Evangelie (Blagovestnik)	Author: Feofilakta, Episkopa Bolgarskogo
1651	Potrebnik	—
1653	Kormchaia Kniga	—
1655	Apostol	—
1656	Skrizhal’ dukhovnaia	Author: Patriarch Nikon?
1656	Triod’ postnaia	—
1658	Psaltir’ Davida proroka i tsaria i chasoslov so prochimi razlichymi vossledovanii	—
1660	Anfolgion, si est tsvetoslovie	—
1662	Prolog (Mart'-Avgust)	—
1663	Apostol	—
1663	Bibliia, sirech’ knigi Vetkhago i Novago zaveta, po iazyku slavensku	—
1663	Mineia Obshchaia	—
1664	Kniga o sviashchenstve	Author: Ioann Zlatoust
1664	Bukvar' iazyka slovenska	—
1665	Besedy i nravoucheniia na evangelie evangelista Ioanna Bogoslova	Author: Ioann Zlatoust
1679	Azbuka	—
1698	Margarit	Author: Ioann Zlatoust
1709	Besedy na chetyrenadesiat’ poslanii sv. apostola Pavla, ch. 1-2	Author: Ioann Zlatoust

KIEV PUBLICATIONS

date	title	author/editor and publisher (where known)
1619	Anfolgion, s Bogom soderzhai tserkovnuiu sluzhbu izbrannykh sviatykh na ves' god	Tipografiia Pecherskoi Lavry
1624	Besedy na deianniia sviatikh apostol	Author: Ioann Zlatoust; Tipografiia Pecherskoi Lavry
1625	Tolkovanie na apokalipsii sviatogo apostola i evangelista Ioanna Bogoslova	Author: Andrei, Arkhiepiskopa; Tipografiia Pecherskoi Lavry
1626	Ot otechnika skitskago povest' udivitelna o diavole kako priide k volikomu Antoniiu v obraze chelovecheste khotia kaiatisia	Tipografiia Pecherskoi Lavry
1627	Leksikon slavenorosskii i imen tolkovanie	Author: Berynda Pamva; Tipografiia Pecherskoi Lavry
1627	Triodion, siest tripesnets sviatoi velikoi chetyrdesiatntsi	Tipografiia Pecherskoi Lavry
1628	Mineia Obshchaia	Tipografiia Spiridona Sobolia
1628	Pouchenniia	author: Dorofei, Avva; Tipografiia Pecherskoi Lavry
1629	Liturgiarion, si est sluzhebnik. Blahoslovenie i ispravleniem Petra Mogily	Author: Petr Mogila, Metropolitan of Kiev; Tipografiia Pecherskoi Lavry
1630	Apostol	Tipografiia Spiridona Sobolia
1631	Triodion, siest tripesnets sviatoi velikoi piatdesiatntsi	Tipografiia Pecherskoi Lavry
1632	Evkharistirion, albo vdiachnost’ Petru Mogile	Author: Petr Mogila; Tipografiia Pecherskoi Lavry
1637	Evangelie Uchitelnoe, albo kazanie na kozhduiu nedeliu i sviata urochystye	Tipografiia Pecherskoi Lavry
1644	Evangelion, sirech’ blagovestie bogodukhnovennykh evangelist	Tipografiia Bratsva
1646	Evkhologion, albo molitvoslov ili trebnik	Tipografiia Pecherskoi Lavry
1646	Trebnik	Author: Petr Mogila; Tipografiia Pecherskoi Lavry
1653	Liturgiarion, si est sluzhebnik	Tipografiia Pecherskoi Lavry
1663	Kliuch razumeniia	Author: Galiatovskii, Ioannikii; Tipografiia Pecherskoi Lavry
1663	Prechestnyi akafisty i prochia spasitel'nya mol'by	Tipografiia Pecherskoi Lavry

MOGILEV PUBLICATIONS

date	title	author/editor and publisher (where known)
1637	Azbuka	—
1649	Azbuka	—

L'VOV PUBLICATIONS (Ukraine)

Ivan Fedorov, 1573-74

date	title	author/editor and publisher (where known)
1574	Apostol	Tipografiia Ivana Fedorova. (15 copies extant, including Harvard, Library of Congress and New York Public Library)
1574	Azbuka	Tipografiia Ivana Fedorova. (The only known copy is at Harvard University.)

Lvov Stauropegial Brotherhood, 1575-20th century

date	title	author/editor and publisher (where known)
1591	Adel'fotes (a Greco-Slavonic grammar)	—
1614	Kniga o sviashchenstve	Author: Ioann Zlatoust; Tipografiia Bratstva, L'vov.
c. 1614?	Sobor v bogospasaemom grade Vil’ni byvshii 18 Ianvaria 1509 okolo 1614	—
1639	Apostol	Tipografiia Mykhaila Slezki
1642	Triodion, siest tripesnets sviatoi velikoi piatdesiatntsi	Tipografiia Mykhaila Slezki
1644	Oktoikh, sirech’ osmoglasnik ellinski zhe paraklitiki	Tipografiia Bratsva L'vov
1651	Anfolgion, sirech’ tsvetoslov, ili trifolog	Tipografiia Bratsva L'vov
1654	Apostol	Tipografiia Mykhaila Slezki
1663	Kliuch razumeniia, sviashchennikom zakonnym i svetskim nalezhachyi, izd. 1	Authors: Galiatovskii, Ioannikii; Tipografiia Mykhaila Slezki
1664	Triodion, siest tripesnets sviatoi velikoi chetyrdesiatntsi	Tipografiia Bratsva L'vov
1664	Triodion, siest tripesnets sviatoi velikoi chetyrdesiatntsi	Tipografiia Mykhaila Slezki
1665	Kliuch razumeniia, izd. 2	Authors: Galiatovskii, Ioannikii; Tipografiia Mykhaila Slezki
(year?)	Triodion, siest tripesnets sviatoi velikoi piatdesiatntsi	Tipografiia Bratsva L'vov

VILNA (VIL'NO, VILNIUS) PUBLICATIONS

Francisk Skorina, 1525 - moved to Vilna from Prague (see below)

date	title	author/editor and publisher (where known)
1525	Apostol	Francisk Skorina
1525	(Handbook containing Psalms, prayers and a calendar)	Francisk Skorina

Petr Mstislavets and the Mamonich brothers, 1574-1610
Note: Petr Mstislavets formerly worked with Ivan Fedorov in Moscow and Zabludov

date	title	author/editor and publisher (where known)
1575	Evangelie	Tipografiia L. Mamonicha
1576	Psaltir'	Tipografiia L. Mamonicha
1580	Evangelie uchitel'noe	Vasilii Mikhailovich Garaburda
1583	Sluzhebnik	Tipografiia L. Mamonicha
1586	K gramatyka sloven'ska iazyka	(First Church Slavonic printed grammar)
1591-92	Psaltir' s vossledovaniiem	Tipografiia L. Mamonicha
1591	Apostol. 1st ed.	Tipografiia L. Mamonicha
1592	Apostol. 2nd ed.	Tipografiia L. Mamonicha
1593-1601	Nachalo uchenia detem khotiashchim razumeti pisanie	—
1595	Apostol. 3rd ed.	Tipografiia L. Mamonicha
1595	Evangelie uchitel'noe	Tipografiia L. Mamonicha
1596	Grammátika slovénska s-vershshénnago iskústva osmí chástii slóva	Author: Lavrentii Zizanii
1596	Azbuka i Chasovnik (bound together; the Azbuka is similar to the "Anonymous" Azbuka)	—
1598	Sluzhebnik	Tipografiia L. Mamonicha
1600	Evangelie (naprestol'noe)	Tipografiia L. Mamonicha
1609	Triod’ tsvetnaia	Tipografiia L. Mamonicha
1611	Kniga novogo zaveta	Tipografiia Vilenskogo Bratsva
1616	Evangelie Uchitelnoe, albo kazanie na kozhduiu nedeliu i sviata urochystyi prezsviatogo ottsa nashego Kalista	Tipografiia Vilenskogo Bratsva, Ev'iu.
1618	Grammátika álbo sluzhénie pismená khotiáshchimsia uchíti slovénskago iazyka; mladolétnym otrochátom.	Author unknown; 2 variant editions issued the same year
1621	Grammátika… (reprint of 1618 edition)	Author unknown; the only copy of this edition is preserved in Trinity College Library.
1621	Grammátika… (same title as the other book published this year, but closer in text to Ivan Fedorov's 1574 Lvov Azbuka)	—
1623	Novyi Zavet	—
1627	Dukhovnyi besedy, sviatogo ottsa nashego Makariia pustelnika Egipetskogo, o doskonalstve khristian pravoslavnykh	Author unknown; Tipografiia Vilenskogo Bratsva
1644	Evangelie (naprestol'noe)	Tipografiia Vilenskogo Bratsva
1652	Azbuka	—

OSTROG PUBLICATIONS

Ivan Fedorov, 1579-81

date	title	author/editor and publisher (where known)
1580	Novyi Zavet i Psaltir'	—
1580	Sobranie veshchei nuzhneishikh.	—
1581	Bibliia	—
1581?	(A leaflet of two pages with a versified calendar)	—

Ivan Fedorov’s apprentices, until the 1620s

date	title	author/editor and publisher (where known)
1587	Kliuch tsarstva nebesnogo, i nashe kristiianskoe dukhovnoe vlasti nereshimyi uzel	Smotritskii, Gerasim
1588	Sbornik o edinoi istinnoi pravoslavnoi vere	Author: Vasilii (Velikii?)
1594	Kniga izhe vo sviatykh otsa nashego Vasilia Velikago, arkhiepiskopa Kesaria Kappadokiiskiia	Vasilii Velikii
1594	Kniga o postnichevstve	Vasilii Velikii
1595	Kniga izhe vo sviatykh otsa nashego Ioanna Zlatoustago	Ioann Zlatoust
1595	Margarit	Ioann Zlatoust
1598	Azbuka (a close reprint of the "Anonymous" Azbuka)	—
1598	Knizhitsa	—
c. 1598	Apokrisis	Filaret, Khristofor
1598	Kniga v desiati otdelakh	—
1598	Pravilo istinago zhivota khristianskago. Psaltir' s vossledovaniem	—
1606	Molitvennik	—
1619	Grammátiki slavénskija právilnoe síntagma	Meletii Smotritskii (I am not certain if this was actually published in Ostrog)

KUTEINO PUBLICATIONS

date	title	author/editor and publisher (where known)
1631	Azbuka	—
1637	Historiia, al’bo pravdivoe vypisanie sv. Ioanna Damaskina o zhitii sviatykh prepodobnykh otets Varlaama i Iosifa i o naverneniu indiian	[author?] Tipografiia Obshchezhitel’nogo Monastyria
1647	Trefologion, ili tsvetoslov	Tipografiia Obshchezhitel’nogo Monastyria
1652	Novyi Zavet s Psaltir’iu	Tipografiia Obshchezhitel’nogo Monastyria
1653	Leksikon slavenorosskii	Author: Berynda Pamva; Tipografiia Obshchezhitel’nogo Monastyria

STRIATIN PUBLICATIONS

date	title	author/editor and publisher (where known)
1604	Bozhestvenyia Liturgiia izhe vo sviatykh otets nashikh Ioanna Zlatoustago, Vasiliia Velikago, i prezhdesviashchennaia (Sluzhebnik)	Tipografiia Fedora Balabana
1606	Trebnik	Tipografiia Fedora Balabana

ZABLUDOV PUBLICATIONS

date	title	author/editor and publisher (where known)
1562	2 Protestant prints, titles not known	—
1569	Evangelie uchitel'noe	Author unknown; printed by Ivan Fedorov and Petr Timofeev Mstislavets (they worked in Zabludov 1568-70)
1570	Psaltir' with an appended Chasovnik (Psaltir' s posledovaniem?)	Printed by Ivan Fedorov and Petr Timofeev Mstislavets

NESVIZH PUBLICATIONS

date	title	author/editor and publisher (where known)
1562	Katakhisis (a Protestant book?)	Author unlnown; translated by Simon Budnyi. Printed by Matvei Kavechinskii, Simon Budnyi, Lavrentii Kryshkovskii.

"ANONYMOUS" PUBLICATIONS

date	location	title	author/editor and publisher (where known)
c.1575-1600	unknown	Azbuka (Nachalo ucheniia detem khotiashchim razumeti pisanie)	Author unknown. Anonymous publisher. (The two known copies are at Bodleian Library, Oxford, and in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge. This book is a reprint of Ivan Fedorov's Lvov Azbuka of 1574, without the postface and with some divergent spellings. The question has been raised as to whether this is not one of Fedorov's Moscow publications.)

PUBLICATIONS OUTSIDE RUSSIA: OTHER SLAVIC COUNTRIES

date	location	title	author/editor and publisher (where known)
1434	Prague	Abecedarium	—
1491	Prague	Chasoslov (incomplete)	Author unknown; Szwajpolt Fiol, publisher (printed books of Middle Bulgarian recension with Ukrainian influences)
1491	Prague	Triod’ postnaia	Author unknown; Szwajpolt Fiol, publisher
1491	Prague	Triod’ tsvetnaia	Author unknown; Szwajpolt Fiol, publisher
1517-1519	Prague	Bibliia (only the Pentateuch)	Translated and printed by Franciscus Skorina (Napechatana Heorhiem Skorinoi)*
1518	Prague	Kniga Tsarstv	Book of Kings, translated and printed by Franciscus Skorina.
1518	Prague	Kniga Isusa Navina	Book of Jesus ben Sirach, translated and printed by Franciscus Skorina.
1518	Prague	Kniga Sudei Izrailevykh	Book of Judges, translated and printed by Franciscus Skorina.
1519	Prague	Kniga Ruf'	Book of Ruth, translated and printed by Franciscus Skorina.
1529	Horazhda	Psaltir’ s chasoslovstem	printer unknown
1539	?	Oktoikh	Tipografiia Grachanitskogo monastyria (Jugoslavia)
1562	?	Chetveroevangelie	Tipografiia pri monastyre Mr’kshina tserkov’
1563	Skutari	Triod’ tsvetnaia	Tipografiia Stefana Skadarskogo

*Francisk Skorina translated and printed a Psalter and 22 books of the Old Testament in Prague (1517-19) before moving to Vilna.

PUBLICATIONS OUTSIDE RUSSIA: VENICE

date	title	author/editor and publisher (where known)
1519	Sluzhebnik	Ieromonakh Pakhomii Chernogorets, poveleniem Bozhidara Vukovicha
1537	Oktoikh. Glasy 5-8	—
1538	Sobornik	—
c. 1538-40	Molitvennik	—
1546	Psaltir’ s vossledovaniem	—
1597	(Azbuka; serbian rescension of Church Slavonic)	—