Musicology Annotation << Back Catalogues of Church Chant Manuscripts as a Phenomenon of Cultural History Nataliya V. Zabolotnaya Analytical observation of different descriptions of ancient Russian manual heritage shows, that they are closely connected with practical tasks and ideological tendencies of certain historical periods. Catalogues of chant manuscripts from the State Historical Museum, Russian State Library etc. are examined as a reflection of cultural situation of certain time. A whole number of prominent scientists (among them V.F. Odoevskiy, D.V. Razumovskiy, St.V. Smolenskiy, M.V. Brazhnikov) made a great contribution to the detection of cataloging rules, which show specific music character of chant manuscripts. Thus they made significant improvement of medieval music history. At the same time they developed not only such specific area, but also set new cultural tasks. In this article the problems of present stage of chant manuscripts cataloging are also discussed., Keywords: chant manuscripts cataloging, medieval music history, State Historical Museum, Russian State Library, V.F. Odoevskiy, D.V. Razumovskiy, St.V. Smolenskiy, M.V. Brazhnikov. Contacts: E-mail: zblt@mail.ru Pp. 26-31.