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Cyrillic Manuscript Heritage 32 (December 2012)

 

The most recent issue of Cyrillic Manuscript Heritage, the biannual newsletter of the Hilandar Research Library (HRL) and the Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies (RCMSS), is now available. Individuals and institutions on the mailing list in the Western Hemisphere have reported receipt of CMH 32 in the mail this week. Colleagues further abroad should be receiving the newsletter in the next couple of weeks.

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Image of the front page of issue 32 of the newsletter Cyrillic Manuscript Heritage

CMH vol. 32 (Dec. 2012)

Volume 32 (December 2012) includes an account by the HRL curator, Predrag Matejic, of his fall trip to Bulgaria and Serbia, as well as a summary of the research visit of Tatiana G. Popova (Severodvinsk, Russia), who spent several months at OSU this summer examining HRL resources on The Ladder of Divine Ascent of John Sinaites. Also featured is an article on the Scete Paterikon by William R. Veder.

Additional information about the 6th International Hilandar Conference (July 19-21, 2013) is also included in this issue of CMH, namely, that Mirjana Živojinović will present the keynote address at the conference.

The four-page article “MSSI Alumni Update: Where Are They Now?” provides a fitting segue to the forthcoming Medieval Slavic Summer Institute (MSSI), which is scheduled for summer 2013 (June 24-July 19). Selected participants from MSSI 1999 (Bojan Belić, Živojin Jakovljević, Georgi Parpulov, Stella Rock, and Vessela Valiavitcharska), MSSI 2001 (Natasha Ermolaev, Ariann Stern-Gottschalk, and Monica White), MSSI 2003 (Wojciech Beltkiewicz and Inés García de la Puente), and MSSI 2006 (Alexander Angelov and Yulia Mikhailova) describe what they are currently doing. NB: Lauren Ressue, MSSI 2008, is featured on page 8 of CMH 32 as this year’s RCMSS Graduate Associate. We welcome updates from any other past participants of the MSSI for future issues of CMH !

The contributors to the endowment funds that benefit the HRL/RCMSS are listed, as are the generous donors of books and materials (CMH 32: 11). And the perennial features, “Director’s Desk” and “News Notes,” describe the highlights of activities and events as well as visitors to the HRL/RCMSS since June 2012.


Abstracts to present at the Sixth International Hilandar Conference must be submitted by February 1, 2013.

Application deadline for the next MSSI is February 22, 2013.

 

Recent Acquisition: The Scete Paterikon

 

William Veder’s The Scete Paterikon/Patericon Scepticum/Скитский Патерик, published as vols. 12-14 in the Pegasus Oost-Europese Studies series, is a recent addition to the HRL’s extensive print library. The first volume includes an introduction to the Apophthegmata Patrum, and the Scete Paterikon. The apparatus of the three volumes is reviewed – and a list of manuscripts used and references consulted are included. Maps of Egypt and Sinai, Alexandria, and the Nile Delta from the 3rd-5th centuries are provided. Next are the indices: Names (61-65), Biblical Quotations and References (66-70), Apophthegms (Armenian – according to Louis Leloir; Coptic – Marius Chaîne; Greek – Lucien Régnault, Viktoros Matthaiou, and Jean-Claude Guy; Latin – José G. Freire; Syriac – Ernest A. Wallis Budge; and Slavic – William R. Veder), alphabetical listings of incipits for the Greek (80-105), Latin (106-125), and Slavonic texts (126-153), with the bulk of the volume devoted to a word index to the Slavonic text (154-494).

Photo of the 3 volumes of The Scete Paterikon front covers - gray background with the number of each volume in large white numerals on top of the gray, then overlaying the numerals in alternating red, black and red horizontal lines is the name of the work in English, Latin and Russian. Vertically oriented to the edge of the spine on the front cover is the name of the series in red

The second volume contains the Greek text of the Scete Paterikon, the Latin translations of the 6th cent., and the English translation of the Slavonic textus receptus (“received text”).

Volume three includes the Slavonic translation of the Scete Paterikon as well as a reconstruction of its Glagolitic archetype.