RARE MANUSCRIPTS OF THE 17TH-19TH CENTURIES IN THE STATE ARCHIVE OF THE RYAZAN REGION
The article investigates early manuscripts collected in the Research Library of the State Archive of the Ryazan Region. The electronic register lists hundreds of manuscripts and books dated up to 1830. The article attempts to analyze the rarest and the most interesting manuscripts of the archival collection. Half of the manuscripts hosted by the archive were examined in the early 2000s. The article treats some manuscripts which are used by researches and provides a few original fragments. However, it should be mentioned that the collection of the State Archive of the Ryazan Region contains a number of unknown or little known manuscripts. The present article focuses on the description of the most interesting manuscripts of the 17th - early 19th centuries.