Text criticism and philological analysis of the chamaił of the Lithuanian-Polish-Belarussian Tatars from a private collection Cover Image

Хамаил литовско-польско-белорусских татар из частной коллекции: филолого-текстологический анализ
Text criticism and philological analysis of the chamaił of the Lithuanian-Polish-Belarussian Tatars from a private collection

Author(s): Galina Mishkinene
Subject(s): Islam studies, Sociology of Religion
Published by: Verbinum
Keywords: Tatar manuscripts; chamaił; Tatar prayer book; Lithuanian-Polish-Belarussian Tatars

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this article is a manuscript belonging to the Lithuanian-Polish-Belarussian Tatars, the chamaił (a Tatar prayer book), currently in the custody of a Lithuanian state institution. Its watermarks indicate that it was created in 1896. Modern scholars have very limited access to manuscripts kept in private hands. For this reason they have been the least researched so far. This may be the case of the writings of the Lithuanian-Polish-Belarussian Tatars. For this reason the subject of this article may be regarded as part of a private collection, too. The author of the article performs a textual and philological analysis of the said manuscript, describes its content and graphical and orthographical characteristics.

  • Issue Year: 142/2017
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 123-138
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Russian