Паремийник 1775 г. как образец книгопечатной продукции Шувейра

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета. Серия 3: Филология. 2022. Т. 73. С. 119–132.

Frantsouzoff S.

This article examines in detail the Book of Paroemias issued in al-Shuwayr in
1775. It was purchased in Beirut in December of 2005 and is now kept now in a private
collection in St. Petersburg. The article gives a comprehensive description of this copy
from the point of view of its design, state of preservation and of its content. It traces
the foundation of a monastery of St. John the Baptist in al-Shuwayr at the turn of the
17th — 18th centuries that came to be a stronghold of the Uniates separated from the
Antiochian Orthodox Church, who adopted the Charter of St. Basil the Great, and the
establishment of a printing house in Arabic script that published its fi rst book in 1734
and existed till 1899. It is noted that one of the peculiarites of its book production was
the elegance of its script fabricated by ‘Abdallâh b. Zhâhir, hereditary jeweler and its
creator. It is established that the Book of Paroemias published in al-Shuwayr in 1775
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was mentioned in the itineraries of C.-Fr. Volney and was thoroughly described in the
Bibliotheca Arabica by Ch. Fr. de Schnurrer. The correspondence of that liturgical book
to the Orthodox canon is demonstrated. Besides, attention is paid to the fact that the
Uniates, who did not want to break with the East Christian tradition, spread among
their fl ock the Roman Catholic theological doctrine through diff erent ways, including
books printed in al-Shuwayr.

Keywords: Ливан, паремии, Christian Arabs, арабы-христиане, Lebanon, paroemias, Book of Paroemias, Arabic old-print books, village of al-Shuwayr, Uniate Monastery in al-Shuwayr and Printing House in al-Shuwayr Monastery, Паремийник, арабские старопечатные книги, селение Шувейр, униатский монастырь в Шувейре и типография при нем