Протоколи візитацій та реєстр фінансово-майнової документації василіанського монастиря у Білині Bеликій (1763–1765 рр.)
Visitation reports and register of financial and property-related documentation of the Basilian Monastery in Bilyna Velyka (1763–1765)

Summary/Abstract: The article is a general overview of source documents which have survived to this day and which illustrate the various areas of the monastery’s activity. The foundation documents constitute a valuable source for the study of the history of the monastery and monasticism in the region. The time and place of the compilation of the reports and the register as well as biographies of the compilers are known. The author of the article carries out a comparison of the visitation reports for different years in order to determine changes in the status of the monastery, and to determine the course of its dissolution. In addition, he distinguishes and provides a general description of the structural parts of the documents. On the basis of the visitation reports he reconstructs the layout of the monastery buildings. We can be certain as to the monastery’s sources of income. The article also contains a typology of financial and property-related documents. Information from the reports is confronted with information from other documents, in particular inventory descriptions. The sources presented in the article constitute valuable material for the study of the history and culture of Basilian monasteries.

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