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Ivan Fyodorov (printer)

Ivan FyodorovorIvan Fеdorov[1](Russian:Ива́н Фёдоров;Ukrainian:Іван Федоров;born c. 1510 or c. 1525 – died December 16, 1583) sometimes transliterated asFiodorov,was one of the fathers ofEastern Slavonicprinting(along withSchweipolt FiolandFrancysk Skaryna). He was also a skilledcannonmaker and the inventor of amultibarreledmortar.Fyodorov was forced out of Moscow because of his attempts to employ the “blasphemous” new printing techniques, and found refuge in Poland–Lithuania, first inZabłudów,then most notably inOstroh,where he was instrumental in the publication of theOstrog Bible.[2]

Ivan Fyodorov
The first monument to Fyodorov was unveiled in front of theMoscow Print Yardin 1909
Bornc. 1510–1525
Grand Duchy of Moscow(also possibly, not far fromMinsk,Grand Duchy of Lithuania)
Died16 December 1583
Lviv,Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Occupations
Known forfirst Russian printer

Name

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In those times Russians still did not have hereditary surnames, but usedpatronymicsor nicknames, which were also not stable. In his first book "Apostolos"(printed in Moscow in 1564) he called himself in typical Russian styleIvan Fedorovthat is "Ivan, son of Fedor".[3]In his other famous book "Ostrog Bible"(1581) he called himself in bothChurch Slavonicand Greek as "Ivan, son of Feodor (Феодоров сын,Θεοδώρου υἱός), a printer from Moscow ". In the Greek version there was" fromGreat Russia"instead of" from Moscow ". But when he was living for a long time in thePolish–Lithuanian Commonwealth,he adopted a localRuthenianstylepatronymicin Polish spelling "Fedorowicz"and also added a nickname indicating his origin. In his Latin documents he signedJohannes Theodori Moscus(that is "a Muscovite"[4]), orIoannes Fedorowicz Moschus, typographus Græcus et Sclavonicus.As a result of the dialectical replacement of consonant/f/with/x~xw/inearly East Slavicthe first letter F was sometimes changed, so the patronymic becameChwedorowiczorChodorowicz.In his later Slavonic books (printed in PLC) he signed "Ioann (Ivan) Fe(o)dorovich" (with some orthographic differences), and added a nickname "a Muscovite printer" or just simply "a Muscovite".[1]

Biography

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Fyodorov's autograph from July 23, 1583

Neither his place nor his date of birth are known. It is assumed that he was bornc. 1510orc. 1525,most likely in Moscow during theGrand Duchyperiod - he called himself a Muscovite even after his move to theGrand Duchy of Lithuania,and in his afterword to the Lviv edition ofApostlehe named Moscow "our home, our fatherland and our kin".[5]In 1935 a Russian historian of heraldry,Vladislav Kreskent'evich Lukomsky[ru],advanced the hypothesis that his printer's mark was thecoat of armsof Rahoza, aBelarusianszlachtafamily,[6][7]and that Fyodorov had a connection with that family either by descent[8]or by adoption.[9]No subsequent researchers have accepted that theory other than Nemirovsky (2002), who agreed only with the possibility of adoption but not with the theory of Fyodorov's descent from theszlachta.[10]

Fyodorov graduated from theUniversity of Krakówin 1532 with abachelor's degree.

In 1564–5 Fedorov accepted an appointment as a deacon in the church of Saint Nicolas (Gostunsky) in theMoscow Kremlin.Together withPyotr Timofeev from Mstislavl(i.e. Mstislavets), he established theMoscow Print Yardand published a number of liturgical works inChurch Slavonicusing moveable type. This technical innovation created competition for the Muscovite scribes, who began to persecute Fyodorov and Mstislavets, finally forcing them to flee to theGrand Duchy of Lithuaniaafter their printing workshop had been burned down (an alleged arson, as related byGiles Fletcherin 1591).[11][a]

The printers were received by theGreat Lithuanian HetmanHrehory Chodkiewiczat his estate inZabłudów(northernPodlaskie), where they publishedYevangeliye uchitel’noye(Didactic Gospel, 1569) (see Zabłudów Gospel) andPsaltir’(Psalter,1570).

Fyodorov moved toLvivin 1572 and resumed his work as a printer the following year at theSaint Onuphrius Monastery.(Fyodorov's tombstone in Lviv is inscribed with the phrase "renewed neglected printing".) In 1574 Fyodorov, with the help of his son and Hryn Ivanovych of Zabłudów published the second edition of theApostolos(Apostle, previously published by him in Moscow), with an autobiographical epilogue, and an Azbuka (Alphabet book).

In 1575 Fyodorov, now in the service of PrinceKonstanty Wasyl Ostrogski,was placed in charge of the Derman Monastery nearDubno;in 1577–9 he established the Ostrog Press, where, in 1581, he published theOstrog Bible— the first full version of the Bible inChurch Slavonicprinted in moveable type — as well as a number of other books. Fyodorov returned to Lviv after a quarrel with Prince Konstantyn Ostrogski, but his attempt to reopen his printing shop was unsuccessful. His printing facilities became the property of the Lviv Dormition Brotherhood (later theStauropegion Institute). The brotherhood used Fyodorov's original designs until the early 19th century.

In 1583 he visitedViennaandKraków,where he showed the Emperor his latest inventions. He then returned to Lviv, where he died on December 16, 1583; he was buried there on the grounds of theSaint Onuphrius Monastery.

Publications

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Title page from the Ostrog Bible, 1581

1.Apostolos(Apostol).Moscow,17 April 1563 – 3 March 1564, 6 unnumbered and 262 numbered leaves (inCyrillic numerals) sized at least 285 x 193 mm, in two colours, edition of about 1,000 copies of which at least 47 copies are extant.

2 and 3. Two editions ofBook of Hours(Chasovnic). Moscow, 7 August – 29 September 1565 and 2 September – 29 October 1565, 173 (172 in the second edition) unnumbered leaves sized at least 166 x 118 mm, printed in two colours, at least 7 copies are extant today.

4.Didactic Gospel(Yevangeliye uchitelnoye).Zabłudów,8 July 1568 – 17 March 1569, 8 unnumbered and 399 numbered leaves sized at least 310 x 194 mm, printed in two colours, at least 31 copies are extant today.

5. Psalms with Book of Hours. Zabłudów, 26 September 1569 – 23 March 1570, 18 unnumbered leaves with two separately numbered sets of 284 and 75 leaves sized at least 168 x 130 mm (a heavily cropped copy), printed in two colours. A very rare edition: only three extant copies are known, all of them incomplete. The first Cyrillic book with ruled tables. Adigital versionis available.

6. Apostolos.Lvov,25 February 1573 – 15 February 1574, 15 unnumbered and 264 numbered leaves sized at least 300 x 195 mm, printed in two colours, edition of 1,000–1,200 copies, at least 70 copies are extant today. Similar to the Moscow edition of 1564 with a little more refined design. An electronic version of an almost complete copy is available online.

7. Primer. Lviv, 1574, 40 unnumbered leaves, frame (type page) of 127,5 x 63 mm, printed in two colours, edition of probably 2,000 copies, but only a single one is known to have survived (stored in the library of Harvard University).

8. Greek-Russian Church-Slavonic Reader.Ostrog,1578, 8 unnumbered leaves, frame of 127,5 x 64 mm, printed in one colour, set in two columns (parallel Greek and Slavonic text) for the first time in Fyodorov's books, only one copy is in existence (stored in the State Library of Gotha, East Germany). This copy is bound with a copy of the Primer of 1578 (see below), which makes them appear as one book referred to as Ostrog Primer of 1578. Adigital versionis available online.

9. Primer. Ostrog, 1578, 48 unnumbered leaves, frame of 127,5 x 63 mm, printed in one colour, the edition was of many copies, but only two incomplete copies exist (one is already mentioned above, the other one is kept in the Royal Library of Copenhagen). A reprint of the Lviv's Primer of 1574 with the added "On the Letters" byChernorizets Hrabar.Adigital versionis available online.

10. New Testament with Psalms. Ostrog, 1580, 4 unnumbered + 480 numbered leaves sized at least 152 x 87 mm, printed in two colours, the number of copies is unknown, at least 47 copies are extant.

11. Alphabetical index to the previous edition ( "Knizhka, sobraniye veschey..." ). Ostrog, 1580, 1 unnumbered and 52 numbered leaves, frame of 122 x 55 mm, printed in one colour, at least 13 copies are extant (often added to the previous book, but evidently printed and issued separately as a special edition).

12. Chronology of Andrew Rymsha ( "Kotorogo sya m(s)tsa shto za starykh věkov děyelo korotkoye opisaniye" ). Ostrog, 5 May 1581, two-page leaflet (text printed on the inside of the pages), frame of about 175 x 65 mm. The only known copy is stored in the Saltykov-Shchedrin State Public Library in St.Petersburg.

13. Bible. Ostrog, 1581. 8 unnumbered leaves with five separately numbered sets of 276, 180, 30, 56 and 78 leaves sized at least 309 x 202 mm, text set in two columns, including some in Greek, mainly printed in one colour (vermilion is used only for the title), edition of 1,500 copies of which approximately 400 are extant.

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Notes

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  1. ^However, modern scholars cast doubt on Fletcher's claim of arson, believing that his account referred to some printing shop other than Fyodorov's

Citations

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  1. ^abJakobson & Jackson 1955,p. 8.
  2. ^Subtelny, Orest (2009).Ukraine: A History.University of Toronto Press. p. 96.
  3. ^Unbegaun 1972.
  4. ^Rein & Stenbaeck 1829,p. 19–20.
  5. ^Shepkina 1959,p. 234—236, 246—247.
  6. ^Lukomsky 1935,p. 171: "...гербовый знак Ивана Федорова является известным в Литве гербом, усвоенным белорусским родом Рáгоза [...the heraldic sign of Ivan Fedorov is the coat of arms, well-known in Lithuania, adopted by the Belarusian family of Rahoza]".
  7. ^Lukomsky 1935,p. 172: "Герб же “Рагоза”, составляя родовую эмблему рода того же наименования, в дальнейшем изменял только свою внешнюю геральдическую композицию, зависимую от стиля эпохи, но сохраняя незыблемость сочетания именно этих двуз фигур, т. е. изогнутой полосы и наконечника стрелы над нею [But the “Rahoza” coat of arms, being the emblem of the family with that name, varied only in its heraldic composition's frame, depending on the style of a certain period, but kept the combination of precisely these two figures stable, i.e. a curved stripe with an arrow-head above it] ".
  8. ^Lukomsky 1935,p. 173: "Допуская, однако, возможность происхождения Ивана Федорова из русской ветви белорусского рода Рагоз, едва ли ошибочным будет предположить, что о родовом своем гербе Иван Федоров мог узнать только в бытность его в Литве в 70-х гг., а затем, под влиянием польских обычаев, широко использующих в быту родовую геральдику, прибег и сам к применению своего герба, в качестве издательской и типографской марки, в той именно его конфигурации, которая свойственна была геральдической графике XVI века [Although allowing the possibility of Ivan Fedorov's descent from the Russian branch of the Belarusian Rahoza family, it would not be wrong to assume that Ivan Fedorov could learn of his coat of arms only during his stay in Lithuania in the 1570s, and then, influenced by the Polish custom of making wide use of family heraldic signs in everyday life, he could resort to using his coat of arms as a printer or typographic mark in that very configuration, which was characteristic to the heraldry graphics of the 16th century]".
  9. ^Lukomsky 1935,p. 174: "...можно выдвинуть только вторую гипотезу о том, что Иван Федоров, не принадлежа к роду Рагоз и даже дворянству вообще, принял родовой герб, что было возможно в Польше и Литве до конституции 1601 г., в силу особой привилегии, предоставленной господствующему классу, приписывать к своему гербу угодных или близких ему людей - свободных, хотя бы и не шляхетных, путем акта, известного под наименованием адоптации (adoptatio) [...merely a second hypothesis can be formulated, that Ivan Fedorov, without being related to the Rahoza family, and even without being of noble descent, adopted that coat of arms, which was possible in Poland and Lithuania before the constitution of 1601, by virtue of the privilege granted to the ruling class members allowing them to associate suitable or close people (free and not necessarily noble) with their coats of arms according to the act known as the adoption (adoptatio)]".
  10. ^Nemirovsky 2002.
  11. ^Fletcher 1591.

References

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Further reading

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In Church Slavonic
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In Ukrainian
  • Ohienko, Ivan (1924). "Ivan Hvedorovych, Fundator postijnoho drukarstva na Ukraini. Zhyttia i diial'nist'"Іван Хведорович, Фундатор постійного друкарства на Україні. Життя і діяльність[Ivan Fedorovych, the Founder of Regular Book Printing in Ukraine. Life and Work].Stara UkrainaСтара Україна[Old Ukraine] (in Ukrainian).II–V.Lviv: 21–34.
  • Isaievych, Iaroslav (1975).Pershodrukar Ivan Fedorov i vynyknennia drukarstva na UkraïniПершодрукар Іван Федоров і виникнення друкарства на Україні[First Printer Ivan Fedorov and the Emergence of Book Printing in Ukraine] (in Ukrainian). Lviv.{{cite book}}:CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Isaievych, Iaroslav (1989).Literaturna spadshchyna Ivana FedorovaЛітературна спадщина Івана Федорова[Literary Heritage of Ivan Fedorov] (in Ukrainian). Lviv.{{cite book}}:CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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