The Coming of the Bookman or Approaches to the Manuscript Heritage of Prokhor Kolomnyatin Presenting a review of the historiography from 1854 to the present, this article examines the scholarly study of the Russian bookman Prokhor Kolomnyatin (17th c.). It investigates how and why Prokhor’s works attracted the attention of scholars, how they collected information about him, and bit by bit solved various riddles associated with him. Researchers uncovered four miscellanies collected by him: in particular, the one containing School abecedaria is known in eight copies. These miscellanies contain a variety of works, including poetic ones. Prokhor actively employed acrostics and cryptograms, which scholars have gradually managed to decipher. Other questions have focused on who Prokhor was and what his goals were in assembling his miscellanies. The answers that have been given vary, but one may argue that many issues have been satisfactorily resolved.
Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation - ORCID: 0009-0000-6708-5676
Chapter Title
Явление книжника или Пути изучения рукописного наследия Прохора Коломнятина
Authors
Olga E. Košeleva
Language
Russian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0585-6.21
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Publication Year
2024
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Book Title
Language and Education in Petrine Russia
Book Subtitle
Essays in Honour of Maria Cristina Bragone
Editors
Swetlana Mengel, Laura Rossi
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
442
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0585-6
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0584-9
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0585-6
Series Title
Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici
Series ISSN
2612-7687
Series E-ISSN
2612-7679