The article examines the editions of Akathists printed in the Lviv Stavropihiyan Confraternity printing-house in the seventeenth–eighteenth centuries. These books were not often reprinted, unlike other liturgical books. With the functioning of this printing house since the end of the sixteenth century, the first edition of the Akathists was published only in 1683. Not all editions of the Akathists have survived to this day. Particular attention in the article is paid to information from archival documents, in which records were recorded about the printing of books, sales, prices. The surviving contracts with printers for the publication of books are considered. Attempts are being made to reconstruct the composition of editions that have not been preserved. An analysis of the documents made it possible to conclude that the first edition of the Akathists was published no later than May 1683 with a circulation of 2000 copies. To print the book as a model, the printer Vasily Stavnitsky was given the Kiev edition of the Akathists. Therefore, a conclusion is made about the similarity of its composition and the publication of the printing house of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra in 1680. The largest edition of the Akathists of 1699, both in terms of format and content, is considered in detail. A complex of archival documents is analyzed, which allow tracing the sales of this book. The iconography of the title page, as well as the complex of poems placed in the book, is considered in detail. Based on the analysis of archival materials, it is concluded that the edition known in the bibliography of the «Prayer book and Akathists» (1741) did not exist. The history of the publication, the content and artistic design of the «Akathists for the Week» of 1742 are described in detail. The reprint of this book in 1769 is being considered. Particular attention is paid to the newly found book of Acathist to the Pokrov of the Most Holy Theotokos of 1746 with a poetic title page. The verses on the title are analyzed in the context of the tragic events of the capture of Lvov by the Swedish troops of Charles XII in 1704. It is noted that they describe the legend about the salvation of the city from the burden of indemnity by the miraculous Terebovlya Icon of the Mother of God. The article concludes about three types of books of Akathists, which were published in the Lviv Stavropihiyan Confraternity printing-house. The characteristic features that distinguished Lviv publications from publications of other Ukrainian printing houses of the seventeenth–eighteenth centuries are determined.
Lviv Stavropihiyan Confraternity printing-house; oldprinted Cyrillic books; Akathists; bibliography; Acathist to the Pokrov of the Most Holy Theotokos; The Great Northern War (1700–1721)