The contributions brought together in this landmark edited collection focus on Cyrillic manuscripts and early printed editions from around 900 to 1800. They address a wide variety of topics that have not received sufficient attention in Western scholarship, including material, visual, and textual aspects. Collectively, the authors discuss scribal practices and multilingual manuscripts; visual exegesis; paleography; codicology and online databases; migration of manuscripts; fragmentology and digital reconstruction; and machine learning approaches, HTR models for transcriptions, and multi-spectral macrophotography.
The project was initiated by the Balkan History Association and represents the work of twenty-one scholars from eight different countries.
About the Authors - Introduction - PART I: MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS AND RARE
PRINTED EDITIONS - Scribal Practices, Textual Issues, and Slavic Languages -
1. Yavor Miltenov: Cyrillic Traces in Glagolitic Manuscripts -
2. Vladislav
Knoll: Multilingualism in the Cyrillic Manuscripts and Early Prints -
3.
Angelina A. Kalashnikova, Maria E. Proskuryakova: The Visual Markup of the
Text in Russian Chancellery Documents from the Fifteenth to Seventeenth
Centuries - Books, Texts, and Images -
4. Kristina Miloradovi: Visual
Exegesis of Verses of the Old Testament Psalms: A Contribution to the Study
of the Hermeneutic Relation Between the Text and the Image in Medieval
Cyrillic Manuscripts -
5. Tatiana G. Popova: The Miniatures in the
Sixteenth-Century Slavonic Codex (RGB, Tr. F. 304/1II, 20) and their Sources
in the Byzantine Manuscripts -
6. Olha V. Maksymchuk: Ohorodok Presviatoi
Bohoroditsy (1671) as a Remarkable Sample of the Ukrainian Baroque
Handwritten Book - Christian Literature and Publishing in Slavic Contexts -
7. Peter euch: On the Subject of Publishing Cyrillic Sources in Slovakia:
The Source as a Basis for Research into Intercultural Communication -
8.
Natalia P. Bondar, Viacheslav V. Lytvynenko: Reception of John Chrysostom in
Ukrainian Printed Literature from the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries -
PART II: MANUSCRIPTS AND DIGITIZATION - Paleography, Cataloguing, and Online
Databases -
9. Maria V. Korogodina, Nadezhda N. Levchenko: The Paleographic
Study of Manuscripts and the Database Medieval Cyrillic Codices: Russian
Digital Resources for Manuscripts - Transcription, Visualization, and Markup
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10. Victor A. Baranov, Maria O. Novak: An Online Corpus of Old Slavonic
Written Sources: Development Methods, Visualization Ways, and Markup
Challenges -
11. Achim Rabus, Martin Meindl: Digitizing Cyrillic Manuscripts,
Using Handwritten Text Recognition Technologies: Recent Developments and
Future Perspectives - Cyrillic Fonts -
12. Fabio Maion: A Proposal for
Converting the non-Unicode Font CyrillicaOchrid1 - Manuscripts and Modern
Methods of Natural Science -
13. Elena V. Ukhanova, Aleksandr V. Andreev,
Mikhail N. Zhizhin, Aleksey A. Poida: Natural Scientific Methods in the Study
of Medieval Written Artifacts in the Department of Manuscripts at the State
Historical Museum, Moscow
Viacheslav V. Lytvynenko is Professor of Greek Patristics and Slavic Studies at Charles University, Prague. His works include critical Slavonic editions of Athanasius of Alexandrias Orations against the Arians (2019 and 2021).
Magorzata Skowronek is Professor of Slavic Philology at the University of ód. Her research focuses on the Old Slavonic literature and especially its historical, biblical, polemical, and textual dimensions. She is the author of many books and articles.
Achim Rabus holds the Chair of Slavic Linguistics at the University of Freiburg. He is President of the Commission on the Computer-Supported Processing of Medieval Slavic Manuscripts, and principle investigator of several projects on philology, sociolinguistics, and digital humanities. His current research interests are Slavic sociolinguistics, handwritten text recognition, and digital historical linguistics.
Dimiter Peev is a research fellow at Friedrich Schiller University, Jena. He specializes in the field of Slavonic textology and paleography from the tenth to the eighteenth century. In more recent years, his research has focused on texts related to nation-building in the eighteenth century.
Boban Petrovski is Professor of Medieval History at Saints Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje. His has written several books on medieval church history and the corpus of Saint Kliment of Ohrid.
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