Abstract
The anniversary album of A. Sheptytsky belongs to the unique historical sources of 1930–1931. There are almost 150 seals in the album. This seals are represented by Ukrainian sphragistics of the end of the 19th – the first third of the 20th centuries. The album contains church deanery and parish seals of the Stryi Protopresbytery of the Lviv Diocese, which included the Bolehivskyi, Dolynskyi, Zhydachivskyi, Zhuravenskyi, Lyubinetskyi, Mykolaivskyi, Peregyn- s- kyi, Rozhnyativskyi, Skolivskyi, Stryiskyi, Tukhlyanskyi deaneries. During the study, the methods of comparison, classification and reconstruction of seals were used. Due to the comparison of seals, it was concluded that some seals were replaced. There are statistics on the authenticity of this sphragistic source in the conclusions. These seals can be a valuable source for special historical disciplines, as well as for research into the development of the Ukrainian language, local and church history, and other aspects of the social life of Galicia in the XIX–XX centuries. But there are 9 % of undefined images of parish seals in the album. About 4 % of the seals are errors or substitutions. However, these shortcomings also contain some information about the attitude of seal owners to their use. There are four types of seals in the album: emblematic, hagiographic, titular, onomastic. The most common symbol on seals is the cross. There are four ver-sions of the cross on deanery seals (mostly accompanied by a hat with tassels), and there are eleven versions on parish seals. Hagiographic images on the seals most often reflect the name of the church, although there are cases in the album of inconsistencies between the image on the seal and the name of the church. Keywords: sphragistics, parish seals, Galicia, A. Sheptytsky, anniversary album, critique of sphragistic sources.
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