SECURITY FORMULAS OF THE 16th - 19th CENTURIES ON EXEMPLARS OF OLD PRINTED CYRILLIC EDITIONS: EVOLUTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF TEXTS

"Security formulas" as used by the author shall mean speech patterns that regulate the usage of books. These are the components of inscriptions that fix the contributions of books to churches or monasteries, as well as the facts of ownership of these monuments. The subject of the analysis is inscriptions on old printed books of the 16th - 18th centuries. The author divided 334 inscriptions into three groups based on their content (from the most neutral, containing only phrases like " keep the book forever and no one will wear it out", to the most emotionally colored, having the words "anathema" and "cursed"). The author shows that the top (peak) of their usage falls on the 1630s, but individual inscriptions are found up to the end of the 19th century.