Composition of the single copies catalogs of Cyrillic old-printed books of the Basilian printing houses from the VNLU funds: practical experience and theoretical developments

The article is devoted to the peculiarities of the composition of the single copies catalogs of Cyrillic old printed books of the Basilian printing houses discovered during the work on the catalogs of Cyrillic editions of the printing houses of the Pochaiv, Univ and Suprasl monasteries. The necessity to include one-sheet editions as well as the books issued by these printing houses in the catalogs is underlined. Particular attention is paid to the convolutes made from the editions (or parts thereof) of various Basilian printing houses. The problem of lack of symbols in computer fonts necessary for the reproduction of texts is actualized. Since the printed catalog represents the history of the activity of a particular printing house (or several of them), it is only logical that the descriptions of the editions should be arranged according to the chronology of their publication. In practice, it was established that the execution of the descriptions should be attached not to the chronological list, but to the titles, that is, it would be practical to describe in succession all the editions, for example, of the Missals, etc. This will make it possible not only to make descriptions similar, but also to compare publications among themselves, from which it is often possible to obtain important historical and bibliographic information, for example, about counterfeit editions, as well as the usage of parts of a single circulation for the compilation of different books. It is an issue of insertions and additions of separate services, rites, prayers that did not have their own title and could be used both independently and binded with the same or different editions of different Basilian printing houses that was typical to Greek-Catholic typographies. There is a logical conclusion on this background that due to this “interpenetration” of editions of different Basilian printing houses, describing the products of these establishments in a complex should be more convenient, even if the catalog of publications of each printing house is separately prepared for being published as a book or an electronic publication.