Новая рукопись из собрания Национальной библиотеки Татарстана: китаб 1890 г.

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Kitabas; Kitabas, aprašymas; Krymas; Lietuvos totoriai; Rankraštis; Rankraščiai; Tatarstanas; Crimea; Description; Kitab; Lithuanian Tatars; Manuscripts; Tatarstan.

ENThe paper is dedicated to a newly discovered manuscript of Lithuanian Tatars - the kitab rewritten in 1890. The copyist of this manuscript was the resident of the town Vidzy (Belarus), Alexander Radkevich. Kitab is one of the most important genre varieties of Lithuanian Tatars' manuscripts. As evidenced in the catalogue published in 2015, only 31 out of 263 manuscripts could be considered kitabs in respect of genre features. Twenty kitabs are stored in state collections whereas 11 are kept in private ones. The collections of Lithuanian Tatars' manuscripts can be found in state depositories of Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Germany, the Russian Federation (Kazan, Saint Petersburg), Great Britain and Ukraine (Lviv) as well as in private collections. The kitab described in this paper belongs to a private collection. A digital copy thereof was given to the Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books of the National Library of the Republic of Tatarstan in 2018. This manuscript was bought by a private collector from an anonymous individual in Yalta in the 1980s. Till now it has been the only one manuscript of Lithuanian Tatars found in Crimea. The paper is focused primarily on the origin of this manuscript, its graphic-orthographic system and content features. In the future, the texts from this kitab that were put into circulation will become a good comparative material. [From the publication]

• Komunikacija / Communication
• Literatūrologija / Literary Studies