Lafsaicon – manuscris românesc de secol XVIII în colecțiile Bibliotecii Centrale Universitare „Carol I” București
Lafsaicon –an 18th Century Romanian Manuscript in ”Carol I” Central University Library’s Collections

Summary/Abstract: The manuscript of monastic literature, Lafsaicon, with an unknown provenance, was donated in 2001 to the collections of the Central University Library "Carol I”. The work of the Galatian hagiographer, Palladius, who lived at the end of the 4th and the beginning of the 5th centuries, an admirer of Saint John Chrysostom, The Lausiac History or Lafsaicon, contains descriptions of the lives of monks and nuns that he encountered during his travels in Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Libya, Rome, and Campania. Conceived around the year 420 and dedicated to Lausus, an official at the court of Emperor Theodosius, it is considered one of the most important histories of monastic life due to its wealth of information. The work was widely disseminated and was initially translated into Latin.In the Romanian space, it was translated and printed in 1760 in Bucharest, at the initiative of Constantin Dudescu. According to the information on the title page, the manuscript copied in Iași, in 1776, during the reign of Grigorie Alexandru Ghica, by the priest Gheorghe, reveals several aspects discussed in the specialized literature regarding the regime of printed materials in the Romanian language in the two provinces under the Phanariot regime, the production of books in Romanian language, and the ways in which fundamental works were spread within the Romanian space through their circulation, either in printed form or as manuscript copies.

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