Kovalchuk Halyna

Attribution and expertise as focus areas in libraries with retrospective rare and valuable editions

Section: Studies in Spesial Historical Disciplines

Abstract: The aim of the work is to prove that the attribution and expertise of rareness and valuableness of retrospective publications and their copies is an important, relevant area of the work in the study of historical and cultural fonds of libraries. Methodological basis of the study is a set of principles of objectivity, historicism, knowledge of the interaction of external and internal, objective and subjective, as well as the application of aesthetic, value criteria for understanding the book as a cultural phenomenon. Scientific novelty lies in the formulation of theoretical issues of attribution and examination of historical and cultural monuments in the retrospective fonds of large libraries, unification of approaches to this, identification of problematic issues of this activity. The priority in this field of scientists of the Institute of Book Studies of the V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine is emphasized. The reasons for the examination in libraries are revealed, the types of examination are determined, among which, in particular: state examination, which should establish the historical and cultural value and rarity of the book and the possibility of its legal taking abroad; examination of books at the request of law enforcement agencies, individuals, as well as books from library fonds in order to transfer them for display at exhibitions or to establish the damage caused to the institution in the case of theft of a rarity. The difference in the examination depending on its purpose is emphasized, the cases of necessity of attribution of book monuments are given, criteria of rarity of copies of the publication are emphasized. The facts of detection of publishing forgeries during historical and bibliographic researches in the V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine are named. Particular attention is paid to the problem of training book monuments experts, both in higher education institutions and directly in libraries. Conclusions. Attribution and expertise are an urgent task of working with historical and cultural fonds in libraries. Thus, in libraries, and in general in the state there is no mechanism of licensing of the corresponding expert activity or, in other words, certification of employees of libraries as books experts.

Keywords: attribution, expertise, historic and cultural library collections, Institute of Book Studies, book monuments, V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine.

  Full-text PDF    https://doi.org/10.15407/rksu.27.156     Citation

• Kovalchuk Halyna (V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine), kovalchuk_galina@ukr.net) ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8843-9584

Cite:
Kovalchuk Halyna (2021). Attribution and expertise as focus areas in libraries with retrospective rare and valuable editions. Manuscript and book heritage of Ukraine, (27) 156-165. (In Ukrainan). doi: https://doi.org/10.15407/rksu.27.156

References:

1. Antoniuk T. D. Atrybutsiia zamaskovanykh vydan ukrainskoho zarubizhzhia [Attribution of disguised editions of Ukrainian foreigners]. Biblioteka. Nauka. Komunikatsia: aktualni tendentsii u tsyfrovu epokhu. Materialy Mizhnarodnoi naukovoi konferentsii. Kyiv, 8–10 zhovtnia 2019 roku [Library. Science. Communication: current tendencies at the digital epoque: Materials of the International scientific conference. Kyiv, October 8–10, 2019]. Kyiv, 2019. Vol. 1, pp. 138–142. [In Ukrainian].
2. Bondar N. P. Pro chas druku tretioho vydannia Apostola drukarni Mamonychiv (filihranolohichna atrybutsiia prymirnykiv) [About the time of the third edition of Mamonychy printing house Apostle publishing (Filigree attribution of copies)]. Biblioteka. Nauka. Komunikatsia: aktualni tendentsii u tsyfrovu epokhu. Materialy Mizhnarodnoi naukovoi konferentsii. Kyiv, 8–10 zhovtnia 2019 roku [Library. Science. Communication: current tendencies at the digital epoque: Materials of the International scientific conference. Kyiv, October 8–10, 2019]. Kyiv, 2019. Vol. 1, pp. 143–147. [In Ukrainian].
3. Hutnyk L. M., Halkevych T. A. Ukrainska vydova poshtova lystivka kintsia XIX – pershoi tretyny XX st. z fondiv Natsionalnoi Biblioteky Ukrainy im. Vernadskoho: atrybutsiia ta naukovyi opys [Ukrainian postcards views of the late 19th – the first third of 20th century from fonds of the V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine: attribution and scientific description]. Biblioteka. Nauka. Komunikatsia: aktualni tendentsii u tsyfrovu epokhu. Materialy Mizhnarodnoi naukovoi konferentsii. Kyiv, 8–10 zhovtnia 2019 roku [Library. Science. Communication: current tendencies at the digital epoque: Materials of the International scientific conference. Kyiv, October 8–10, 2019]. Kyiv, 2019. Vol. 1, pp. 152–156. [In Ukrainian].
4. Ivchenko L. V., Kozhushko Ye. V. Vstanovlennia avtorstva muzychnykh tvoriv «bezimennoho» Vekslera [Authorship of musical works (“nameless Weksler”)]. Rukopysna ta knyzhkova spadshchyna Ukrainy [Manuscript and book heritage of Ukraine]. 2019. Iss. 23, pp. 36–55. [In Ukrainan]. doi: https://doi.org/10.15407/rksu.23.036
5. Kovalchuk G. I. Atributsiia i ekspertiza redkikh knig kak aktualnoe napravlenie knigovedcheskikh issledovanii [Attribution and examination of rare books as the current direction of bibliological research]. Berkovskye Chteniya – 2019. Knizhnaia kultura v kontekste mezhdunarodnykh kontaktov. Materialy V Mezhdunarodnoi nauchnoi konferentsii. Pinsk, 29–30 maia 2019 g. [Berkovskye Chteniya – 2019. Book Culture in the Context of International Contacts: Materials of the V International scientific conference. Pinsk, May 29–30, 2029]. Minsk, Moskva, 2019, pp. 195–200. [In Russian]; Kovalchuk H. I. Spetsyfika atrybutsii ta ekspertyzy ridkisnykh knyh [Specifics of attribution and examination of rare books]. Naukova atrybutsiia tvoriv mystetstva, ekspertyza ta otsinka kulturnykh tsinnostei. Materialy naukovo-praktychnoi konferentsii. Kyiv, 24 zhovtnia 2019 roku [Scientific Attribution of Works of Art, Examination and Evaluation of Cultural Values: Materials of the scientific and practical conference. Kyiv, October 24, 2019]. Kyiv, 2019, pp. 67–71. [In Ukrainian]; Kovalchuk H. I. Ekspertyza knyh: unifikovani pidkhody ta dyskusiini pytannia [Books expertise: common approaches and controversial issues]. Korolenkivski chytannia 2019. Biblioteky, arkhivy, muzei: konverhentna tsyfrova komunikatsiia, kros-mediinist, klientoorientovanist. Materialy ta tezy dopovidei i povidomlen XXII Vseukrainskoi (z mizhnarodnoiu uchastiu) naukovo-praktychnoi konferentsii. Kharkiv, 24–25 zhovtnia 2019 r. [Korolenkivski Chytannia 2019: Libraries, archives, museums: convergent digital communication, cross-media, client orientation: Materials of XXII All-Ukrainian (with international participants) scientific and practical conference. Kharkiv, October 24–25, 2019]. Kharkiv, 2020, pp. 221–229. [In Ukrainian]; Kovalchuk H. I. Z dosvidu atrybutsii knyzhkovykh pamiatok u Natsionalnii bibliotetsi Ukrainy imeni V. I. Vernadskoho [Attribution of Rare Printed Books at the V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine]. Naukovi pratsi Natsionalnoi bibliotetky Ukrainy imeni V. I. Vernadskoho [Scientific Works of the V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine]. 2020. Iss. 60, pp. 9–30. [In Ukrainan]. doi: https://doi.org/10.15407/np.60.009
6. Litvinova S. A. Atrybutsiia literaturnykh tekstiv u kolektsii «Muzychnyi fond Ukrainy» Natsionalnoi bibliotetky Ukrainy imeni V. I. Vernadskoho [Attribution of literary texts in the collection «Musical fond of Ukraine» of the V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine]. Biblioteka. Nauka. Komunikatsia: aktualni tendentsii u tsyfrovu epokhu. Materialy Mizhnarodnoi naukovoi konferentsii. Kyiv, 8–10 zhovtnia 2019 roku [Library. Science. Communication: current tendencies at the digital epoque: Materials of the International scientific conference. Kyiv, October 8–10, 2019]. Kyiv, 2019. Vol. 1, pp. 178–181. [In Ukrainian].
7. Rudakova Yu. K. Vstanovlennia vukhidnykh vidomostei vydannia za khudozhnim oformlenniam yak odyn iz shliakhiv atrybutsii (na prykladi paleotypa) [Defining the publisher’s imprint by decoration elements as one of the ways of attribution (on the example of the paleotype)]. Biblioteka. Nauka. Komunikatsia: aktualni tendentsii u tsyfrovu epokhu. Materialy Mizhnarodnoi naukovoi konferentsii. Kyiv, 8–10 zhovtnia 2019 roku [Library. Science. Communication: current tendencies at the digital epoque: Materials of the International scientific conference. Kyiv, October 8–10, 2019]. Kyiv, 2019. Vol. 1, pp. 209–213. [In Ukrainian].
8. Tsybulska O. A. Kompozytory-odnofamiltsi: z praktyky muzychnoi bibliohrafii ta atrybutsii tvoriv Shtrausiv [Composers-namesakes: from practice of musical bibliography and attribution musical works of the Strauss]. Biblioteka. Nauka. Komunikatsia: aktualni tendentsii u tsyfrovu epokhu. Materialy Mizhnarodnoi naukovoi konferentsii. Kyiv, 8–10 zhovtnia 2019 roku [Library. Science. Communication: current tendencies at the digital epoque: Materials of the International scientific conference. Kyiv, October 8–10, 2019]. Kyiv, 2019. Vol. 1, pp. 239–242. [In Ukrainian].
9. Yukhymets H. M., Tsynkovska I. I. Ikonohrafichni doslidzhennia yak instrument atrybutsii hravirovanykh portretiv XVI–XVIII st. zibrannia Natsionalnoi bibliotetky Ukrainy imeni V. I. Vernadskoho [Iconographic researches as a tool for attribution of engraved portraits of 16th–18th centuries from collections of the V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine]. Biblioteka. Nauka. Komunikatsia: aktualni tendentsii u tsyfrovu epokhu. Materialy Mizhnarodnoi naukovoi konferenrsii. Kyiv, 8–10 zhovtnia 2019 roku [Library. Science. Communication: current tendencies at the digital epoque: Materials of the International scientific conference. Kyiv, October 8–10, 2019]. Kyiv, 2019. Vol. 1, pp. 257–261. [In Ukrainian].
10. Yakubova T. A. Provenientsii – element atrybutsii kolektsii «Biblioteka Lutsko-Zhytomyrskoi seminarii» [Provenances – elements of attribution of Lutsk-Zhytomyr seminary Library collection]. Visnyk Knyzhkovoi palaty [Bulletin of the Book Chamber]. 2019. No. 3, pp. 47−52. [In Ukrainian].
11. Tsiborovska-Rymarovych I. O. Kontrafaktni politychni vydannia drukarni Lutskoho dominikanskoho monastyria (1787–1836): drukarske vykonannia, atrybutsiia, suspilna potreba [Counterfeit political publications of the Lutsk Dominican monastery printing house (1787–1836): printing execution, attribution, social need]. Vydavnychui rukh v Ukraini: seredovyshcha, artefakty: dopovidi i povidomlennia Mizhnarodnoi naukovoi konferentsii, Lviv, 24–25 zhovtnia 2019 r. [Publication Movement in Ukraine: environments, artefacts: reports and messages of the International scientific conference. Lviv, October 24–25, 2019]. Lviv, 2019, pp. 33–35. [In Ukrainian].
12. Ekspertyza tsinnosti dokumentnykh pamiatok: prohrama ta navchalno-metodychni materialy do kursu dlia studentiv z napriamu «Knyhoznavstvo, bibliotekoznavstvo i bibliohrafiia» [Appraisal of documentary monuments: program and educational methodological materials for the course for students of Bibliology, Library Science and Bibliography] / I. Ya. Losievskyi (Comp.). Kharkiv, 2013. 312 p. [In Ukrainian].
13. Ekspertyza ridkisnykh knyh: robocha prohrama navchalnoi dystsypliny [Rare books expertise: work program of the academic subject] / H. I. Kovalchuk (Comp.). Kyiv, 2019. 27 p. [In Ukrainian].