CATALOGS OF UKRAINIAN OLD PRINTS AS SOURCES OF EXPERT RESEARCH OF KYIV CYRILLIC OLD PRINTED EDITIONS OF THE XVII-XVIII CENTURIES

Abstract

The publication comprehensively investigates the use of well-known catalogs of Ukrainian old prints as a source of attribution and expert research of Kyiv Cyrillic old printed editions of the XVII-XVIII centuries. At the same time, expert research of Kyiv Cyrillic old prints can be carried out both by experts who have special knowledge in the fi eld of art history, bibliography, history, culturology, book printing, etc., and certifi ed by special. 15.1 – “Art Studies” by forensic art experts. The conclusion is substantiated that the expert study of Kyiv Cyrillic old prints is a system of successive and interdependent stages of study and identifi cation of a specifi c copy (copies) of a book (complete or defective), in order to attribute it to the system of basic criteria. engravings and engravers, fonts and ornaments, screensavers and ornamental decoration of footers, casting ornaments, forts, parcels, signatures, covers, etc.), as an established, cataloged and described Kyiv old printed edition of the Cyrillic font XVII – XVIII centuries. Analysis of known catalogs of Ukrainian Cyrillic old prints, which contain descriptions of Kyiv Cyrillic old editions of XVII-XVIII centuries, allows to systematize them, given the chronological criterion and level of development of methodology and techniques of expert research and attribution of Cyrillic old prints, into three successive groups. The fi rst group (from the beginning of the XVIII century to the beginning of the XX century) is the publication of the fi rst catalogs of Cyrillic old prints, which mostly were an extended bibliographic description (indicating the size, circulation, ornamental decoration and other descriptions of books) of relevant publications in archives, libraries of academies, universities, museums and scientifi c, including scientifi c and historical societies of the Russian Empire, including those that operated in Ukraine (libraries of imperial universities in Kharkov, Odessa and Kiev, etc.), and in private collections. The second group (1922- 1991) is the publication of catalogs of Cyrillic old prints, which are characterized by increasing scientifi c and methodological level of description of relevant publications, reattribution of old prints described in the fi rst period, and soft but fundamental rivalry between Ukrainian and Russian scientifi c schools of Cyrillic researchers. old prints for the championship in book printing. The third group (1991 – present) – further development of scientifi c and expert research of Ukrainian Cyrillic old prints from public and private collections, including those published in Kiev, the results of which are embodied in the latest catalogs containing complete and systematic descriptions of relevant old prints, including re-attributed and not previously identifi ed and not attributed in the previous two periods.