Viaţă cotidiană în Mănăstirea Neamţ la începutul veacului al XIX-lea. Note pe marginea unui manuscris
Everyday life in Neamţ Monastery at the beginning of the 19th century. Notes on the edge of a manuscript

Summary/Abstract: In the manuscript no. 704 of the Romanian Academy Library there are many notes and writings of a monk from the monastic community of the Neamţ Monastery, named Vitalie, who lived in the second half of the 18th century and during the first decades of the 19th century. He was an apprentice of the abbot Paisius Velichkovsky, who had the obedience to be a music teacher and organizer of the liturgical services of the monastery. A small part of the notes in this manuscript were printed, but the largest one has not yet been published. In general, the manuscript on which we focus is a collection of historical data, spiritual words, commercial documents, loan receipts, psaltic musical scores, lyrics and weather, astronomical or meteorological events related notes, all linked by the one who placed them on the paper, reflecting certain states of mind, attitudes, concerns and occupations. They also offer an interesting picture of the daily life of the largest monastery in Moldavia at the beginning of the 19th century. One of the most important texts in this manuscript is his will, something that is rarely found in the monastic tradition of that period.

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