DIACRITICS AS AN OBJECT OF BOOK CORRECTION (BASED ON THE MATERIAL OF THE PSALTER AS PART OF THE MOSCOW BIBLE OF 1663)

Abstract

. For the first time in the history of book correction study, the article examines trends and principles of correcting superscript characters – “auxiliary graphemes”. Among the multiple corrections of diacritics made at the Moscow Printing Yard in preparation for publication of the Moscow Bible in 1663, as a result of a continuous sample of material, a set of imperative corrections was revealed that affect the areas of functioning of the signs of camora, breath, “two dots” over the letter izhitsa and titla. A comparison of normative representations of the editors of the Moscow Bible, implemented in these corrections, with the prescriptive instructions of the Moscow edition of Meletius Smotritsky’s grammar of 1648 allowed us to establish that the work carried out was grammatically motivated. The editors of the Moscow Printing Yard demonstrate an unambiguous commitment to the system of superscripts and the rules for their formulation, codified in the grammar of 1648.