A Little-Known Scriptorium in Kholmogory? An Essay in Palaeographic Analysis
https://doi.org/10.20913/script-2026-1-02
Abstract
This article makes available the author’s half-century-old, previously unpublished palaeographic analysis of a group of manuscripts which, he argues, were probably copied in the same scriptorium in or near Kholmogory. The proposed location is the main cathedral of the town in the period prior to the appointment of the noted bookman Archbishop Afanasy to the episcopal see. Even though there is now a substantial literature on manuscript production and libraries in the Russian North, much additional study is needed to identify the output of individual scriptoria.
About the Author
D. C. Waugh
University of Washington
United States
United States
Daniel Clarke Waugh, PhD, Professor Emeritus
318 Smith Hall, Box 353560 Seattle, WA 98195-3560
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1. Fig. 1. Colophon of manuscript SHM, Collection of the Synodal (Patriarchal) Library, no. 127/77 (С). Reproduced from a photograph of the title page of (Charykov NV (ed. and foreword) Cosmography 1670. …) | |
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2. Fig. 2. The owners’ inscriptions on manuscript SHM, Museum Collection, no. 2524 (М), fols. 6v and 1r-6r | |
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3. Fig. 3. RNL, F.XVII.15 (Ф), fol. 322r | |
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4. Fig. 4. RNL, Collection of M. P. Pogodin, no. 1573 (П), fol. 14r | |
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5. Fig. 5. SHM, Museum Collection, no. 2524 (М), fol. 2r | |
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6. Fig. 6. SHM, Museum Collection, no. 2524 (М), fol. 3r | |
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7. Fig. 7. RSL, Collection of N. S. Tikhonravov, no. 557 (Т), fols. 197r, 200r | |
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8. Fig. 8. RNL, Collection of M. P. Pogodin, no. 1405 (Х), fol. 118r | |
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9. Fig. 9. The вязь heading at the beginning of SHM, Collection of the Synodal (Patriarchal) Library, no. 127/77 (С). Reproduced from a photograph of the title page of (Charykov NV (ed. and foreword) Cosmography 1670. …) | |
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10. Fig. 10. RNL, F.XVII.15 (Ф), fol. 65r | |
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11. Fig. 11. RNL, F.XVII.15 (Ф), fol. 209v | |
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12. Fig. 12.1 Appendix 1. Summary Table of Handwriting Styles | |
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13. Fig. 12.2 Appendix 1а. Summary Table of Handwriting Styles | |
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Waugh D.C. A Little-Known Scriptorium in Kholmogory? An Essay in Palaeographic Analysis. Scriptorium slavicum. 2026;(1):57–81. https://doi.org/10.20913/script-2026-1-02
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