Вестник Екатеринбургской духовной семинарии (Feb 2022)
New Arrivals in the Museum of History of the Altai Spiritual Mission (Biysk): A Brief Archeographic Overview
Abstract
The article presents the results of an archeographic expedition undertaken by the scientific workers from the Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts of the State Public Scientific Technological Library of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The expedition group went to Biysk of the Altai region in July 2021. The authors give a brief overview of the books written in the Cyrillic tradition within 17th — early 20th centuries, which have been taken into the library collections at the Museum of the History of the Altai Spiritual Mission in 2019–2021. Among these books, the researchers identified one handwritten collection as a convolute with the liturgical texts of the 19th–20th centuries. Moreover, the museum’s collections were complemented with three publications of the Moscow Printing Yard dating to the 17th century: Shestodnev (Moscow, 1640), Prolog (Moscow, 1641), and Service Book (Moscow, 1652). In addition, a copy of the Psalter of 1641, Moscow edition, was described. In some cases, it became possible to attribute the stamps of the printers to the editors’ names known from the documents of the Printing Yard which were published by I. V. Pozdeyeva, A. V. Dadykin and V. P. Pushkov. It must be noted, there is a large number of book samples from various Old Believer printing houses of the 18th–20th centuries: these are liturgical, singing, educational, and reading books. Among them worth mentioning is a previously unknown bibliography edition of the Chasovnik (approximately 1805). A copy of Old Believer Potrebnik has been identified and it closely corresponds to the publications design at the Printing house of the brothers Andrey and Alexey Ovchinnikov. New acquisitions are presented with synodal publications dating from the 19th–20th centuries: Holy Scripture and various liturgical literatures. Special attention has been paid to the owner’s signs preserved on the pages of the books. The revealed records and notes have shed light on the everyday life history of several copies. Thus, their owners, both private and institutional libraries in European Russia and Western Siberia, are being clarified. Finally, a very wide geography circulation of books has been mentioned and a conclusion has been made about the prospects of further work on compiling a catalog of rare precious books stored in the Museum of the History of the Altai Spiritual Mission.
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