ON THE ISSUE OF THE OLD BELIEVERS’ READING PRACTICES: A MANUSCRIPT FROM TIUNOV’S COLLECTION IN THE OMBM RL TSU
V.A. Esipova
Tomsk State University, 34, Lenina str, Tomsk, 634055, Russia
Keywords: Old Believers, hand-written book, paleography, owners’ litters, reading practices, Tiunovs, Zaimochnaya library
Abstract
The article objective is to consider the Old Believers’ reading practices. The repertoire and existence of both Old Russian and Old Believers hand-written miscellanies have attracted the attention of researches for a long time; a special term for the field of philology studying medieval collections - “miscellanology” has recently appeared. A hand-written miscellany allows understanding the readers’ interests of the compiler, as well as gives an interesting material to study the process of its existence in the presence of owners’ records and litters. The article deals with a manuscript miscellany of the 18th century written by raznochinetz Ivan Ivanov; nowadays it is stored in the Manuscripts and Book Monuments Department of Tomsk State University Research Library. The paper presents characteristics of the miscellany content and ornamentation. It shows that the manuscript contains texts being read both by the Orthodox, and Old Believers. It is established that the miscellany scriber was not an Old Believer, but later the manuscript appeared in the Old Believer environment and the text was corrected (for example, in the name “Jesus” the first letter was scraped off). The author analyzes ownership records, which show that the miscellany belonged to Matryona Tiunova. The question arises about relations of M. Tiunova and Tiunovs’ Old Believer family, who lived in hermitages of the Tomsk region. The base for this assumption is the similarity of M. Tiunova and Maria Fedorovna Tiunova handwritings. The article shows that the spiritual verses copied by M. Tiunova in the manuscript fields existed among the Orthodox environment. The author makes an assumption about the miscellany existence in the Old Believers surroundings: the manuscript originally was created by a person, who didn`t belong to the Old Believers, but it was also demanded in the Old Believers environment. This fact is another evidence of the complex interaction between the Orthodox and Old Believers peasant cultures, and material for the study of peasant reading practices.
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