Established in 2019
Founder and publisher: A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Adress: Povarskaya 25 а, 121069 Moscow, Russia
Serial scientific edition "Codex manuscriptus" (CM) is a collection of archival publications, research articles and monographs on the history of literature. Its main objective is to introduce hitherto unknown sources on the history of literature from the archives of A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences and other archives into scientific circulation. Archival publications, as well as research articles and monographs that are innovative in terms of the primary sources used, are equipped with a textual introduction and academic commentary, and cover the content of little-known personal or public collections, the composition of which comments on significant events and facts of the historical and literary process, restores the biographies of its participants from correspondence, diaries, notebooks, transcripts of speeches, and so on. The study and updating of documents on the history of literature serves to create an appropriate source study and research platform, the interest in which among scholars is growing and the absence of which sometimes leads to conceptual distortions. The methodology of research and publications presented in the "Codex manuscriptus" is based on the traditions of academic edition, textual criticism and source study, founded by D.S. Likhachev, N.N. Skatov, L.D. Gromova-Opulskoy, N.V. Kornienko, A.V. Lavrov, T.M. Nikolaeva, A.L. Grishunin, and also scientific school of publication of primary sources, formed in the edition of the academic series "Literary Heritage." Main approaches of the research are cultural-historical, comparative-historical, socio-cultural, biographical, archival, bibliographic methods. Such an integrated approach makes it possible to identify a wide range of literary and non-literary factors that determined the literary process, which is inaccessible without referring to archival primary sources. Thus this scientific approach to the study of Russian and world literature, publications, research articles, monographs presented in the serial scientific edition "Codex manuscriptus" open up new facets in understanding literary monuments, both well-known and newly introduced into scientific circulation. The publication is addressed primarily to prepared readers –professors, graduate students and students of philology, historians, and art historians.
The author of the project is Daria S. Moskovskaya, DSc in Philology, Director of research at IWL RAS (since 2010, Head of the Department of Manuscripts at IWL RAS)
Types of publications:
We accept for publication fundamental studies (scientific articles, monographs, dissertations) on the history, source studies, textual criticism, publications of archival primary sources, including literary and artistic works, bibliographic reviews, etc.
