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the documentary corpus is provided by the notes made on manuscripts
and printed texts from Moldavia until 1712. of the multitude of notes on
books, the most complex and expressive ones were mainly used but, aiming
to obtain the coherence necessary to scientific research, papers from the
historical field will be used as well.
the first year in the reign of Constantin Cantemir was marked by a
long winter: the hieromonk ion from Piatra Neamţ made a note on a Psalm
Book ms. (1583) on the 25 th of April 1686 that it snowed after Saint George’
day. on the 11 st of December 1686, Father Ion from Dorohoi inherited
some books, which he was entitled to because when he got married, he had
not received all that was necessary for the marriage 1 .
the campaigns organized by the polish between 1685 and 1691
throughout Moldavia, towards the Danube, are well known. In 1686,
the polish attacked Moldavia, after the siege of Vienna, and they took
Metropolitan Dosoftei with them. the notes on the books mention these
events. one year before leaving to poland, the Metropolitan Dosoftei
bought the book Universal History by Iohannes nauclerus (tubingen,
1544) and offered it to doctor Iacob pilarino 2 . like the Metropolitan of
Moldavia, other people travelled to poland during those times. on the
19 th of April 1686, Apostol Catargiul, former great dignitary, and his
wife Catrina “bought from lwow, when they were errants in poland «a
Religious song book, lwow, 7152» and gave it to the church up the hill, in
Tupilaţi, which was made by them, in the county of suceava”. on the 31 st
of July 1687, Iacov, former patriarch of Constantinople, wrote from Iasi
to ioan cariofil, great dignitary, “about the Polish armies going to iaşi, the
princess and the boyards’ wives leaving Iasi and the Cossacks’ robbing in
orhei”. obviously, people were running away from the armies. Between
September 1 st 1688 and August 31 st 1689 (7197), Toderaşco son of Nacul,
a dignitary, bought an Apostle (lwow, 1666) that he donated to the church
in rotopăneşti, “when they were refugees in cîmpulung” 3 .
What the fate of the books in times of refuge was we can find out
from Iftimie Bobinca of Suceava: “this holy Gospel is from the borough
of Suceava, from Saint paraschieva, and was given by the hand of Gavril
1 cAProŞu, ioan, chiABuru, Elena, Însemnări de pe manuscrise şi cărţi vechi
din Ţara Moldovei. Un corpus /Notes on manuscripts and old books from Moldavian. A
corpus, vol. i, iaşi, Editura demiurg, 2008, p. 305- 307; (next: cAProŞu, chiABuru,
Notes on manuscripts and old books).
2 ŞTrEMPEl, Gabriel, Catalogul manuscriselor româneşti. BAR ⁄ The Catalogue
Romanian manuscripts, vol. ii, Bucureşti, Editura Ştiinţifică şi Enciclopedică, 1983, p.
303; (next: ŞTrEMPEl, The Catalogue), p. 303.
3 Ibidem, p. 306 and 312-314.