On the question of study of Siberian Old Believers bookbinding (based on collections of the Scientific Library of Tomsk State University and Tomsk Museum of Local History)

The article is devoted to the study of historiography of the Old Believers bookbinding history, based on the collections of the Scientific Library of Tomsk State University and Tomsk Museum of Local History. At present, there were not found any research works on history of Old Believers book bindings in Siberia, but there are a number of works that illuminate some aspects of the subject. These works can be divided into following groups: - Encyclopedic, dictionaries and reference books. The group includes materials in dictionaries and reference books on bookbinding and restoration, which are presented in different forms, as well as encyclopedias. - Proceedings, devoted to the book history as the whole. - Research and published sources about bookbinding. The group can be divided into two categories that are the texts of the medieval bookbinders, which represent sources of bookbinding and the study of bookbinding proper. - Practical guidance on restoration and bookbinding. A group of works, dedicated on regional issues directly, can be also selected; these works are necessary for the reconstruction of the historical context of the study. Works of the category are necessary for reconstruction of historical context of old-believer's bookbinding history; they allow to establish the names of owners of book collections as well. - Catalogs of the Research Library of Tomsk State University and Tomsk Museum of Local History. Viewing of the catalogues shown, that bookbinders were described in very general terms, because the task was not intended. Thus, historiography on the subject is not very extensive, but varied. Partly mentioned publications refer to both categories of sources (usually secondary) for this study and to historiography as such. There are a number of works on the history of the book, on the history of binding and practical guidance on restoration and on the history of Tomsk Old Believers, but the individual works on the Old Believers book binding, could not be found at the moment. Collections under study (Research Library of Tomsk State University and Tomsk Museum of Local History) also have not been explored from this point of view; there are only brief descriptions of the bindings of manuscripts as a part of the catalog of Slavic-Russian manuscripts of the Scientific Library of Tomsk State University and the library catalog Nifantov's family (Tomsk Museum of Local History).

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