Geography of the distribution of the Moscow altar Gospels in the 1630s. Based on the materials from the Archives of the Book Printing Department
https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-6541-2022-4-26-44
Abstract
The article deals with the reconstruction for the distribution geography of the distribution of the four editions of the printed Moscow Gospel in the 1630s. The corpus of the sales records of the Receipt Books of the Book Printing Department served as the main source for the study; the records are now kept in the Russian State Archives of Ancient Acts (F.1182). Over the course of ten years, the representatives of all estates had made more than a thousand purchases of the Gospels, most of which remained in the capital. However, a significant number of the Gospels were dispersed around the country. The source study analysis using the quantitative method made it possible to reveal the wide information potential of the sales records and to form a holistic picture of the distribution of a printed book in 8 historical and geographical regions. Most of the customers were recorded from the Zamoskovny and Zaotsky regions, which suffered more than other areas during the Time of Troubles and then developed most actively. The research made it possible to confirm the leading role of the ancient cultural and economic centers in the dissemination of the printed Scripture, the buyers of which were mainly urban representatives. It turned out that significant purchases were often made by those cities which, during the Time of Troubles, were subjected to the most severe devastation and in subsequent years made great progress.
About the Author
M. Yu. Borisov
Russian State University for the Humanities
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Maxim Yu. Borisov
bld. 6, Miusskaya Sq., Moscow, 125047
References
1. Belyankin, Yu.S. (2011), “Documents from the Archives of the Moscow Prikazes (Departments) on the publication and distribution of anti-Old Believer books at the Printing House in the second half of the 17th century”, Otechestvennye arkhivy, no. 4, pp. 46–56.
2. Borisov, M.Yu. (2021), “The social composition of buyers of the Moscow Gospels altarpieces in the 1630s (according to the documents of the Archives of the Book Printing Department)”, in Rumyantsevskie chteniya – 2021: materialy Mezhdunarodnoi nauchno-prakticheskoi konferentsii: v 2 ch. [Proceedings of the Rumyantsev International Science-Practical Conference], Moscow, 2021, part 1, pp. 113–118.
3. Dadykin, A.V. (2003), “Prologue editions at the Moscow Printing House in the third quarter of the 17th century”, in. Nemirovskii, E.L. (ed.), Fedorovskie chteniya – 2003 [Fedorov Conference – 2003], Nauka, Moscow, Russia, pp. 176–197.
4. Got’e, Yu.V. (1937), Zamoskovnyi krai v XVII veke: Opyt issledovaniya po istorii ekonomicheskogo byta Moskovskoi Rusi [Zamoskovny Krai in the 17th century. Research essay on the history of the economic life of Moscow Russia], Sotsekgiz, Moscow, USSR.
5. Lebed’, M.A. (2009), “Archives of the Department of Book Printing. Implementation of Moscow publications in the 1620s”, Otechestvennye arkhivy, no. 4, pp. 28–37.
6. Luppov, S.P. (1981), “Sale of educational psalters in Moscow (1663)”, in Knigotorgovoe i bibliotechnoe delo v Rossii v XVII – pervoi polovine XIX v. [Bookselling and librarianship in Russia in the 17th – first half of the 19th centuries], USSR, pp. 6–21.
7. Luppov, S.P. (1983), Chitateli izdanii Moskovsko tipografii v seredine XVII veka [Readers of the publications of the Moscow Printing House in the middle of the 17th century], Nauka: Leningradskoe otdelenie, Moscow, USSR.
8. Malinin, D.I. (1992), Kaluga: Opyt istoricheskogo putevoditelya po Kaluge i glavneishim tsentram gubernii [Kaluga. Essay on a historical guide to Kaluga and the main centers of the province], Zolotaya alleya, Kaluga, Russia.
9. Pozdeeva, I.V., Pushkov, V.P. and Dadykin, A.V. (2001), Moskovskii pechatnyi dvor – fakt i factor russkoi kul’tury. 1618–1652 gg.: Ot vosstanovleniya posle gibeli v Smutnoe vremya do patriarkha Nikona: issledovaniya i publikatsii [The Moscow Printing House is a fact and factor of Russian culture. 1618–1652. From recovery after downfall at the Time of Troubles to Patriarch Nikon. Research and publications], Mosgorarkhiv, Moscow, Russia.
10. Pushkov, V.P. and Pushkov, L.V. (2005), “Essay on building the database “Moscow book market in 1636/1637”: according to the Archives of the Book Printing Department”, in Fedorovskie chteniya – 2005 [Fedorov Conference – 2005], Moscow, Russia, pp. 356–368.
11. Pushkov, V.P. (2010), “Book purchases of the residents of Russian Pomorye of the 17th century. in the shop of the Moscow Printing House on Nikolskaya Street (according to the Archives of the Book Printing Department)”, Knizhnye sobraniya Russkogo Severa: problem izucheniya, obespecheniya sokhrannosti i dostupnosti, issue 5, Arkhangel’skaya oblastnaya nauchnaya biblioteka im. N.A. Dobrolyubova, Arkhangel’sk, Russia, pp. 50–57.
12. Pushkov, V.P. (2017), “Moscow Printing House and the traditions of the Russian book culture of the 17th century”, in Rumyantsevskie chteniya – 2017: 500‑letie izdaniya pervoi slavyanskoi Biblii Frantsiska Skoriny: stanovlenie i razvitie kul’tury knigopechataniya: materialy Mezhdunarodnoi nauchno-prakticheskoi konferentsii: v 3 chastyakh [Rumyantsev Conference – 2017. 500th anniversary of the publication of the first Slavic Bible by Francysk Skaryna. The formation and development of a book printing culture. Proceedings of the International Science-Practical Conference], Pashkov dom, Moscow, Russia, part 2, pp. 67–70.
13. Pushkov, V.P. (2019), “Borovsk at the Moscow book market of the 17th century (according to the Archives of the Book Printing Department)”, in Rumyantsevskie chteniya – 2019: materialy Mezhdunarodnoi nauchno-prakticheskoi konferentsii: v 3 chastyakh [Rumyantsev Readings – 2019. Proceedings of the International Science-Practical Conference], Moscow, Russia, part 2, pp. 311–315.
14. Shapilova, E.V. (2008), The Gospels of the Moscow Printing House in the history of the book culture of Russia in the 20–60s of the 17th century, Ph.D. Thesis (History), Ivanovo State University, Ivanovo, Russia.
15. Shustova, Yu.E. (2011), “Book of minutes of meetings of the Lvov Assumption Brotherhood for 1599–1650 as a source on the history of printing”, RSUH/ RGGU Bulletin. History. Philology. Cultural Studies. Oriental Studies Series, vol. 74, no. 12, pp. 102–116.
16. Solomin, I.I (2003), “The first editions of the Parenesis by Rev. Ephraim Sirin at the Moscow Printing House in the middle of the 17th century. The dynamics of the distribution of issues. Social and geographic aspects of sales”, in. Nemirovskii, E.L. (ed.), Fedorovskie chteniya – 2003 [Fedorov Conference – 2003], Nauka, Moscow, Russia, pp. 197–214.
17. Volodikhin, D.M. (1993), Knizhnost’ i prosveshchenie v Moskovskom gosudarstve XVII v. [Book-keeping and education in the Muscovy state of the 17th century], Izdatel’stvo Moskovskogo gorodskogo ob”edineniya arkhivov, Moscow, Russia.
Review
For citations:
Borisov M.Yu. Geography of the distribution of the Moscow altar Gospels in the 1630s. Based on the materials from the Archives of the Book Printing Department. History and Archives. 2022;(4):26-44. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-6541-2022-4-26-44
Views:
305
Email this article 