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Pădure. The borrough of suceava was robbed; then, as Pădure was a refugee
in Cîmpulung, he agreed with his nephew Sandul to give a Gospel to priest
Vasilie provided that it must always remain in the church. And in times
of peace, Gavril Pădure should take it, or his grandsons, and take it to the
church with the mentioned patron saint and nobody should stop him, to say
it was given for good” 4 .
even in those troubled times, people could find the time to buy
books, read them and even write marginal notes. In order to make known
his possession of the book, dignitary Pătraşco costin wrote on the 22 nd of
February 1687 on the Polish Chronicle: “to let all know to whom this
book belongs: to dignitary Pătraşco costin. And he was a dignitary during
the times of prince Constantin, while army chief was Velicico” 5 . on the
22 nd of june 1689 Gavril, church singer in Bălţăteşti, „wrote this book
entitled Princely Chronicles since the days of theodosie the Small, on the
expense of master Ion eordachie Cantacozino, and we did everything as
the treasurer desired” 6 . Between 1689 September 1 st and 1690 August 31 st
(7198), theodosie great dignitary of Cozia, bought with 3 coins “this book
which is entitled Prologue” 7 . on the 13 rd of June 1690, prince Constantin
was given „this holy book which is entitled Palia diathnichi, namely the
Bible was to ursu, protohierarch from the princely church” 8 . In 1691 in
Transylvania, over the mountains, a few villagers from ocolişul Mare
bought the holy Gospel, in the days of prince Apaffy Mihai 9 . In the year
4 on Evanghelie/Gospel, ms., f. 112-121, from Saint paraschiva Church from
Suceava; (zuGrAV, Ioan, Un tetraevanghel slavonic ms., de la biserica, astăzi
dispărută, Cuvioasa Paraschiva din Suceava⁄A Slavonic Gospels ms. From the church,
now vanished, St. Paraschiva from Suceava in “Mitropolia Moldovei şi sucevei” (next:
MMS), new Series, year xl (1964), no. 9-10 (September – october), p. 481 – 482).
5 cAProŞu, chiABuru, Notes on manuscripts and old books, p. 313 and 378.
6 on Hronograf, ms. (1689), f. 418 v., Ms. rom. no 86 from rAl Bucureşti, used to
be in Şcheiană library; (BiANu, ioan, cArAcAŞ, remus, NicolăiAsA, G., Catalogul
manuscriptelor româneşti din Biblioteca Academiei Române⁄Catalogue of Romanian
manuscripts from the Library of Romanian Academy, vol. i, Bucureşti, institutul de Arte
Grafice Carol Göbl, 1907, p. 183).
7 on Dosoftei, Vieţile sfinţilor⁄Lives of the Saints (iaşi, 1682–1686), f. 23 v.; (FiliP,
Mircea, Cartea românească veche în Biblioteca G.T. Kirileanu. Bibliografie adnotată⁄Old
Romanian book in G.T. Kirileanu Library. Annotated Bibliography, Bacău, 1970, p. 40, no. 5).
8 GriGorAŞ, Nicolae, Bisericile curţii domneşti din Iaşi/Churches of the royal
court in Iaşi, in MMS, new series, year xlVII (1969), no. 5- 6 (May – June), p. 318-319.
9 on Carte românească de învăţătură⁄Romanian Book of Learning (iaşi, 1643), f.
1-10 and 384, from central university library Bucureşti; (Cartea veche românească în
colecţiile Bibliotecii Centrale Universitare Bucureşti⁄Old Romanian book collections of
the Central University Library Bucharest, Bucureşti, 1972, p. 19).