The scribe and drawing-artist Stefan Basov's ornamentation of early printed style (the end of the 16th - the beginning of the 17th centuries)

The article is devoted to the ornamental art by Stefan Basov. He was, as his two brothers, outstanding scribe of books and drawing-artist at the last quarter of the 16th- the first third of the 17th centuries. The research of his of book ornament was revealed that the master was talented at decorating texts in creating early printed style headpieces of handwritten books, letters and marginal ornaments. The author sets the goal of this research to consider in chronological order and to analyze the ornamental examples of the art by Stefan Basov, to identify their features, principles of creation and manifestation of originality of the art by Stefan Basov. The author is based on the results of previous studies of the art by the drawing-artist and traced their relationship with other examples of Stefan’s ornamentation.