Cyrillic Manuscripts: Script and Language, Scribes and Collections
Edited by Antoaneta Granberg, Georgi R. Parpulov and Andrea Radošević
Cyrillic manuscripts are key to understanding the pre-modern cultures of Eastern and Southeastern Europe. This collection, which brings together ten authors from seven different countries, presents a wide range of interdisciplinary viewpoints on the study of manuscripts from the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period (from c. 1000 to c. 1600). Themes include language, translation techniques, and scribal and collecting practices. The chapters provide a unique survey of Cyrillic literacy, encompassing religious and legal texts, as well as their transmission and language. Collectively, this volume provides a broad insight into the current state of scholarship in the field. It will stimulate methodological reflection and further research.
This volume is the outcome of a project initiated by the Balkan History Association.
Table of Contents
Cover
Halftitle Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Graphic Changes in the Cyrillic Script: A Case Study of Three Documents from the Croatian State Archive in Dubrovnik
2. Early Romanian Cyrillic in the Context of Church Slavonic Spelling
3. Early Modern Croatian Cyrillic Lectionaries as Mirrors of Dialect Perception: The Example of the Leipzig Lectionary
4. The Slavonic Translation and Textual Tradition of Hesychius of Sinai’s Capita de Temperantia et virtute (CPG 7862)
5. Towards a Textual History of the Sredna-Gora Translation of Damaskēnòs Stоudítēsʼs Treasure: The Etropole Connection
6. Monastic Book Inventories as a Source for the Aesthetics of the Book in Early Modern Russia
7. Towards a Reconstruction of the Library of Slavic Manuscripts at the Wallachian Snagov Monastery
8. South Slavic Manuscript Paratexts as Evidence for the Production and use of Books during the Ottoman Period
Notes on Contributors
Index of Manuscripts and Documents
General Index
Biographical notes
Antoaneta Granberg has a Ph.D. in Slavic languages (Sofia University, 1992). She is a specialist in Old Church Slavonic, associate professor in Slavic languages at the University of Gothenburg, series editor for Acta Slavica Gothoburgensia, and a working member of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg.
Georgi Parpulov (M.A. History, University of Sofia, 1994; Ph.D. Art History, University of Chicago, 2004) studies Greek and Cyrillic manuscripts.
Andrea Radoševic has a Ph.D. in Croatian philology (University of Zagreb, 2013). She is a specialist in Croatian medieval literature, senior research associate at the Old Church Slavonic Institute, associate of the Research Centre of Excellence for Croatian Glagolitism, and a board member of journal Slovo.
2025 Monographs XII, 216 Pages
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