The title formula as a reflection of the genre specifics of the far eastern metric books of the second half of the XIX century

Gorelova Olga Vladimirovna

The article is devoted to the analysis of the genre structure of the Far Eastern metric books of the second half of the XIX century. The author examines the forms of the main parts of the documents of the metric books. The specificity of metric books as a document of registration records is considered. The form of metric records has an invariant structure, the characteristics of a single invariant model of the header part are given. The number of components in the titles of the Far Eastern metric books was not constant. The article presents several options for the design of the header part of the documents, due to the functional and stylistic features, the tradition of maintaining this type of document. The title was an obligatory part of the metric book as an official document, characterizes metric books as a special clerical genre of the second half of the XIX century. Five variants of the book title design are analyzed. An attempt is made to describe the general structural components of the headings of the Far Eastern metric books.

Keywords:metric book, structure, genre, formula, formulary, oikonym, appellative, ecclesionym