Calligraphy references in Dostoevsky

[JSD]

Colleagues,

I am trying to contextualize Myshkin's comments on calligraphy in Part 1,
III of Idiot.  I would appreciate any insights on the following references:

1.)  shrift ploshchadnoi   (transl. as "writing of the market-place")

2.)  shrift publichnykh pistsov  (transl. as "writing of public scribes")

Thank you,

Jim Driscoll

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