Ovchinnikov — Collector of Manuscript Books

Author: Usachev А. P., Leading research worker of Bibliology Research Department of the Russian State Library, laureate of the All-Russian competition of scientific works on library science, bibliography and bibliology for 2009-2010 in a nomination «Best research work in related sciences, important for library science development».

Abstract: The article tells about the collection of manuscript books of collector and Old Believer P. Ovchinnikov (1843–1912), now stored in the Manuscript Research Department of the Russian State Library. The special attention is paid to early history of the collection: to features of work of the collector with manuscripts, and also to their use by other researchers. The research is based on the data of various sources — notes on books, memoirs of contemporaries about P. Ovchinnikov, the unpublished documents.

Keywords: сollectors of books, manuscript book, antiques, archaeography, Ovchinnikov, Department of manuscripts of the Russian State Library, bibliology.

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