This article considers the collecting activity of Antonin Kapustin, an outstanding byzantinist and Church and political figure of the 19th century. According to modern studies his collection contains 95 Greek manuscripts, 5 church-singing notation manuscripts in the storages of Kiev (1), St. Petersburg (3) and Moscow (1). The most valuable are the passage from the 10th century Irmologion and Stichirarion 1106 form the Russian National Library, and Stichirarion with miniatures of the second half of the 13th century, which is now in the collection of the State Historical Museum (SHM). The study of Antonin Kapustin gathering of this kind of manuscripts had showed his close relationship with the history of Russian musical Byzantinistic, including the names of V. Stasov, D. Razumovsky, Azariya, kn. Volkonsky, P. I. Sevast΄yanov. The study involved data archival sources: letters, diaries and notes of Antonin Kapustin, including previously unpublished. At the same time this article considers Antonins opinion of the modern Greek singing, which he was familiar with during many years of service — in Greece and the Holy Land. Special attention is paid to the problems of existence and study of Greek sing manuscripts from the collection of Antonin Kapustin in Russia and particularly the Stichirarion of the second half of XIII century from the Muzejskoe collection of SHM (Muz. 3674). Destiny of the manuscript, presented by Antonin Kapustin in 1864 year to Moscow Society of Lovers of spiritual enlightenment, can be traced back to over 150 years of her stay in Russia The study includes a detailed codicological description of Stichirarion from the collection of the State Historical Museum, and detailed catalog data for all studied handwritten sources.
Byzantine music, Greek singing books, catalog of chant manuscripts, Antonin Kapustin.
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