Hnatenko L. Palaeographic-Orthographic Attribution of the Ukrainian Cyrillic Uncial and Half-Uncial Codices of the Late 13th – Early 17th cc.

The dissertation is devoted to the solution of a problem of complex palaeographic-orthographic attribution of Ukrainian handwritten book as direction of research of the medieval Cyrillic handwritten books research in the context of the history, theory and practice of bibliology. The elaboration of methodological issues of the palaeographic-orthographic direction has been conducted on the premises of synthesis and development of the attribution methods in such special historical disciplines as palaeography, codicology and codicography. The dissertation presents for the first time systematically basic theoretical and methodological principles of the palaeographic-orthographic research direction. New principles, methods and technique of research are intorduced. The historiographic and source basis of Ukrainian Cyrillic handwritten book written on parchment and paper in the Ukrainian recension of Church Slavonic and in Old Ukrainian bookish language are analyzed. The research is based upon precisely dated and localized handwritten books held at the book repositories of Ukraine and other countries. Main attention is paid to the elaboration of methodological principles of the uncial and half-uncial codices of the late 13th – early 17th cc. attribution and to the determination of a complex of attribution orthograms of the pre-codification period of Ukrainian book writing (prior to the orthographic codification conducted by M. Smotrytskyi in 1619). Letter usage in orthograms is studied and attribution orthograms are distinguished at the level of graphic letter coordination in duplicate oppositions in the chronological order of their functioning in the book graphic orthographic system, and they are presented in palaeographic-orthographic formulas. Complex research of codices is offered.