Roman Holii
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Researcher, Department of Scientific Research of Special Kinds of Documents of the Research Institute for Art Library Resources, Vasyl Stefanyk National Scientific Library of Ukraine in Lviv

The article examines the theoretical, methodological, and practical cont­ributions of Oleksii Markevych in the field of sphragistics. This scholar sought to establish a comprehensive corpus of seals in Ukraine, an endeavour he pursued through significant publications and active engagement in professional sessions, conferences, and seminars within historical disciplines. O. Mar­kevych organised systematic efforts to identify seals in the Lviv archive and developed a precise method for photographing these artefacts. 

O. Markevych also created a model form for cataloguing seals, which inc­luded twenty categories. These categories encompassed features such as sphra­gistic group, locality, date, the material of the seal, colour, shape, size, state of preservation, placement of the seal on the document, decoding and translation of the text, description of the image, photograph of the seal, storage location of the document, nature of the document, relevant literature, notes, the surname of the employee, date of form completion, and photonegative number. Over the years, various scientific institutions in Ukraine have utilised this model for sphragistic descriptions.

In his publications O. Markevych highlighted the timing and reasons behind the emergence of village seals in Galicia, as well as the characteristics of documents bearing these seals and the typology of the images. During the 1960s, he compiled a card inventory of seals in the Lviv Central Archive. These materials remain unprocessed and unpublished, containing substantial source material for sphragistic research, particularly concerning the study of village seals in Galicia.

Keywords: sphragistic (sigillography), corpus of seals, card inventory of seals, description of seals, photos of seals, village seals, Oleksii Markevych.

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