New evidence on activity of binderу of Mykhailo Sliozka in light of bibliopegistic research

Abstract

The aim of the work. The work most fully explored the kind of decoration, placement schemes of embossing and constituent design elements of primary bookbinding on the Słiozka old printed books made in his bindery and which can be considered as predecessors of publishing binding on Ukrainian lands. The research methodology involvesthe use, in addition to the statistical, comparative, empirical methods, also the involvement of special methods of bibliology and bibliopegy. The complex use of these methods makes it possible to set the time and place of creation of a particular monumentin the absence of archival sources. Scientific novelty. For the first time, a detailed visual, technical-constructive and iconographic study of the decoration of primary bindings on Sliozka’s old printed books was made. For the first time, a prepared album of rubbing ofthe embossing tools (centre-pieces, corners, small stamps) used by bookbinders in the decoration of the workshop bindings was arranged. А description of the plots of centre-pieces and corners was given, which will be useful in attributing plots on newly discovered bindings. To attribute Sliozka’s bindings (determination of their primacy), in addition to proprietary and related records, were used the methods of codicology, bibliopegy and iconography. This allowed not only to localize the place of manufactures of bindings on Sliozka’s publications copies, but also to specify the time of their creation, narrowing it up to several years after printing the text. Conclusions. Based on the research out, it can be argued that the place of production of the discovered and researched bindings on Sliozka’s editions is his bindery started at the printing house. It can be assumed that in bindings decoration, in addition to the centre-pieces end corners, which were cut by the masters of the printing house, bookbinders used another tool (for example, rolls), which was bought at fairs, as evidenced by the images on them.