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New RCMSS website is now live

July 9, 2013 / johnson.60@osu.edu / Comments Off

The Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies (RCMSS) has a new website http://rcmss.osu.edu/. RCMSS is part of the College of Arts and Sciences (ASC) of The Ohio State University, and the ASC recently overhauled and updated all of its websites so that they conform to Ohio State’s new branding policies regarding standardization of colors, fonts, etc. And while the RCMSS is still affiliated with the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS), its website is no longer hosted by CMRS – the address of the old RCMSS website was www.cmrs.osu.edu/rcmss.

Our sincere gratitude to Jody Croley Jones, Web Communications Specialist for the College of Arts and Sciences, and her colleagues for transferring the contents of the old website to the new, while implementing the new design policies and standards.

www.rcmss.osu.edu

The film of the “History” of the RCMSS and the Hilandar Research Library (HRL), “Preserving and Accessing the Past: The History of the Hilandar Research Library and the Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio,” is still available on this new website. It has been digitized, and there are currently three versions available: English, Serbian, and Spanish. Tapescripts of the three languages are also available on the website. There are still plans to translate the script and record it in additional languages. The videos reside on youtube.com, and have already surfaced on several other third-party websites.

There is a tab for “Newsletters,” where the current issue – v. 34 (June 2013) – of Cyrillic Manuscript Heritage is prominently displayed as it is available in the third-party online newsletter management website issuu.com. In the right navigation pane of that webpage is a link to the “Newsletter Archive” that leads to pdfs of the back issues 1 (June 1997) to 33 (December 2012).

Screenshot of the RCMSS homepage with a different photgraph displayed in the "rotor"

www.rcmss.osu.edu

The “Image Gallery” contains the images from the 5th International Hilandar Conference (Raška, Serbia, September 2002), which were on the old RCMSS website.

“Resources” include links to other websites at Ohio State and beyond that might be useful to visitors to the RCMSS website.

“Contacts” lists the personnel associated with RCMSS/HRL and provides a form for visitors to send in questions and comments.

The mailing address, phone, fax, and email address are visible at the bottom of each page on the website.

If there is something else you would like to see on the RCMSS website, please let us know and we will take your suggestions under consideration.

Don’t forget to also visit the webpage of the Hilandar Research Library on the OSU Libraries website.

List of Digitized Manuscripts at the British Library

July 6, 2013 / johnson.60@osu.edu / Comments Off

According to the British Library’s blog, they now have an Excel list of digitized manuscripts that will be updated every three months.

British Library’s List of Digitized Manuscripts

7th Biennial Medieval Slavic Summer Institute (MSSI)

June 24, 2013 / johnson.60@osu.edu / Comments Off

Photo of MSSI participants and HRL/RCMSS staff in the Special Collections Reading Room

MSSI 2013 Orientation

The Seventh Biennial Medieval Slavic Summer Institute (MSSI) opened on Monday, June 24, 2013, with 11 of the 12 participants in attendance. The orientation was held in the Conference Room (105C) of the Jack and Jan Creighton Special Collections Reading Room of the Thompson Library.

Predrag Matejic, Director of the Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies (RCMSS), welcomed the participants and led the introductions; Rebecca Jewett, Assistant Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts and the Reading Room Manager, reviewed the procedures for conducting research, paging books, etc. Helene Senecal, RCMSS Coordinator, addressed the logistics of the housing and university benefits for the non-OSU students; Lyubomira Parpulova Gribble, HRL Assistant Curator, shared her research interests with the group; RCMSS GA Lauren Ressue introduced the participants to the OSU learning management system “Carmen”; and Daniel E. Collins of the OSU Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures said a few words about the “Readings in Church Slavonic” course that he teaches during the MSSI.

Photo of the MSSI participants and HRL/RCMSS staff at a table in the faculty club

MSSI 2013 Luncheon at the OSU Faculty Club

The participants viewed the online video, Preserving and Accessing the Past: The History of the Hilandar Research Library and the Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies, and then toured Thompson Library, where they wound up at a gallery talk about the current exhibit, Travelers to and from Mount Athos: The Translation of Culture, Knowledge, and Spirituality.

Luncheon was held at the OSU Faculty Club, followed by the first session of the MSSI from 2pm to 4pm, where Daniel Collins led the class through a reading of a prayer of St. John Chrysostom in manuscript BAN.13.7.5.

Cyrillic Manuscript Heritage 33 (June 2013) Available

June 22, 2013 / johnson.60@osu.edu / Comments Off

The latest issue of Cyrillic Manuscript Heritage, vol. 33 (June 2013), is now available, and readers in the US have reported receipt of the RCMSS/HRL newsletter in the mail. The lead article describes the current exhibit in the Thompson Library Gallery, May 15-September 8, 2013: “Travelers to and from Mount Athos: The Translation of Culture, Knowledge, and Spirituality,” an exhibit of the Hilandar Research Library.

CMH 33 (June 2013)

Additional highlights of this issue include:

a two-page article by Peter DeSimone (MSSI 2008, RCMSS graduate associate, and OSU History PhD 2012), “Old Rite in Late Tsarist Russia: Documents of the Moscow Old Ritualists in the Pimen Sofronov Collection”;
the preliminary program of the forthcoming 6th International Hilandar Conference, July 19-21, 2013;
RCMSS & HRL News Notes;
Director’s Desk;
an article outlining the various ways to support the Hilandar Research Library and the Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies, along with a list of recent contributions to the Hilandar Endowment Fund, Hilandar’s Friends of the Library Fund, and Gifts in Kind.

Conference on Stanislav’s Reading Menologion: May 21, 2013, Sofia, Bulgaria

May 8, 2013 / johnson.60@osu.edu / Comments Off

STUDYING STANISLAV’S READING MENOLOGION: ISSUES AND APPROACHES

A conference will be held at the University of Sofia on May 21st on the topic of the Stanislav Reading Menologion. The day-long conference, which is a part of the project “Reconstruction of the Preslav Hagiographical Collections: the Study and Publication of the Stanislav Reading Menologion” (see description of project below),* aims to bring together scholars from different areas of Palaeoslavic studies who have research experience with manuscript No. 1039, preserved in the SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library of Bulgaria in Sofia.

Discussion topics include:

History of the manuscript
Characteristics of the codex
Codicological, paleographic, linguistic, textological features
Translation and adaptation of original Byzantine hagiographical texts in a South Slavic context
Digital resources, providing access to medieval Slavonic texts and codices.

Program

Първо заседание/ Session 1 (9:00 – 11:00)

Проф. дфн Боряна Христова (НБКМ, София) Думи за ръкопис № 1039 (Станиславов чети-миней) от НБКМ / Words about Ms. 1039 (Stanislav’s Menologion) from the National Library in Sofia

Проф. д-р Климентина Иванова (СУ, КМНЦ, София) Представянето на староизводните чети-минеи в Bibliotheca Hagiographica Balcano–Slavica (BHBS) и проблемите, които остават нерешени/The Place of the Old Redaction Menologia in Bibliotheca Hagiographica Balcano–Slavica (BHBS): Cases Unsolved

Проф. чл. кор. Иван Добрев (София) Лексикални особености в ръкопис № 1039 (Станиславов чети-миней) /Lexical Characteristics of Ms. 1039 (Stanislav’s Menologion)

Проф. дфн Боряна Велчева (София) За показателните местоимения в ръкопис № 1039/About the Demonstrative Pronouns in Ms. 1039

Дискусия /Discussion

Кафе пауза /Coffee Break

Второ заседание/ Session 2 (11:10 – 13:00)

Д-р Явор Милтенов (ИБЕ, БАН, София) Бележки върху състава и историята на НБКМ 1039/Notes On the Content and History of Ms.1039 from the National Library in Sofia

Д-р Диана Атанасова (СУ, София) Станиславовият чети-миней и институционализираното четене (особености на състава и ролята на Устава)/ Stanislav’s Menologion and the Institutionalized Reading (Content Characteristics and Role of the Typicon)

Д-р Анета Димитрова (СУ, София) Йоан Златоуст в ръкопис № 1039 от НБКМ/ St. John Chrysostom in Ms. 1039 from the National Library in Sofia

Проф. дфн Искра Христова-Шомова (СУ, София) Съставът на ранните славянски празнични минеи в съпоставка със състава на ранните чети-сборници/Comparative Study of the Contents of the Early Festal Menaia and of the Early Reading Miscellanies

Дискусия /Discussion

Обедна почивка/ Lunch Break

Трето заседание/ Session 3 (14:00 – 15:30)

Доц. д-р Андрей Бояджиев (СУ, София) Палеографски и езикови наблюдения върху ръкописис № 1039 от НБКМ/Paleographic and Language Observations on Ms. 1039 from National Library in Sofia

Докт. Цветомира Данова (КМНЦ, София) Слово за Въздвижение на кръста от св. Андрей Критски по ръкопис НБКМ 1039 /The Homily on the Elevation of the Cross by St. Andrew of Crete in Ms. 1039 from the National Library in Sofia

Д-р Мая Петрова-Танева (ИЛ, БАН, София) Житието на Ефросина Александрийска в Станиславовия чети-миней (НБКМ 1039) от XIV в./The Life of St Euphrosyne of Alexandria in the Stanislav’s Menologion (Ms. 1039) from the Fourteenth Century

Prof. Dieter Stern (Universiteit Gent, Belgium) Deviations from Literalism: Remarks on the Slavic Translation of the Greek Life of Abraham of Qidun /Отклонения от буквализма: коментар върху славянския превод на гръцкото Житие на преподобния Аврамий

Дискусия /Discussion

Кафе пауза /Coffee Break

Четвърто заседание/ Session 4 (15:40 – 18:00)

Dr. Małgorzata Skowronek (Uniwersytet Łódzki) Култът към св. Архангели и други безплътни сили в Станиславовия чети-миней/ The Cult of St. Archangels and Other Bodiless Powers in Stanislav’s Menologion

Д-р Любка Ненова (ЮЗУ, Благоевград) Някои езикови особености в Житието на св. Йоан Милостиви от ръкопис НБКМ 1039/ Some Linguistic Characteristics of the Life of St. John the Merciful in Мs. 1039 from the National Library in Sofia

Dr. Lara Sels (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven/ Universiteit Gent, Belgium) Prof. David J. Birnbaum (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Editing the Bdinski Sbornik as a Multilayered Reality/ За издаването на Бдинския сборник като многопластова реалност

Проф. дфн Анна-Мария Тотоманова (СУ, София) Електронни инструменти за обработка на средновековни славянски текстове/ е-Tools for Processing Medieval Slavic Texts

Д-р Диана Атанасова (СУ, София), докт. Козма Поповски (КМНЦ, София) Представяне на сайта Hagioslavica/ Presentation of the Website Hagioslavica

Дискусия /Discussion

Закриване на конференцията/ Closing of the Conference

* * *

Конференцията е във връзка с изследователски проект „Реконструкция на преславските агиографски сборници: издание и изследване на Станиславовия чети-миней” (ДМУ 03/19), финансиран от Фонд „Научни изследвания” към МОНМ.
*Reconstruction of the Preslav Hagiographical Collections: Study and Publication of the Stanislav’s Menologion” is the title of a project developed by a team of young Bulgarian medievalists. Its principal task is the preparation and publication (both digital and traditional) and research of Stanislav’s Menologion (better known as manuscript No. 1039 from the National Library in Sofia). It is one of the most valuable medieval Slavic manuscripts, preserved in the “St. St. Cyril and Methodius“ National Library. Stanislav’s Menologion is significant because, although it is a 14th-century copy, it preserves a number of archaic texts that allow us to reconstruct faithfully the original contents of menologia that were compiled and translated during the Golden Age of medieval Bulgarian literature and culture.

Source: Email from Diana Atanassova.

More on the Romanov Coronation Albums Exhibit at Hillwood Museum, Washington, D.C.

May 8, 2013 / johnson.60@osu.edu / Comments Off

The local Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) affiliate in Washington, D.C., WETA, produced a brief promotional video on the Romanov Coronation Albums Exhibit at the Hillwood Museum in Washington. ScriptoriaSlavica posted on this exhibit on April 1st: “Romanov Coronation Albums on Exhibit at the Hillwood Museum, Washington, D.C.”

See the WETA video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igKhEdlmQ-s&list=UUE1-vZE15MgRM9qlNIab1pA&index=6

Image and link source:
Kristen Regina, Curator of Pageant of the Tsars Exhibit
Head of Research Collections & Archivist
Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens
Washington, D.C.

www.hillwoodmuseum.org

Byzantine Greek Summer School, University of Birmingham, UK

April 29, 2013 / johnson.60@osu.edu / Comments Off

July – August 2013

Hosted by the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. (Formerly at Queen’s University Belfast 2002-2011)

Level-1 (Beginners) 28 July – 11 August 2013

Level-2 (Intermediate) and Level-3 (Advanced) 11-25 August 2013

For full details and an Application Form go to: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/iaa/departments/bomgs/events/summerschool/index.aspx or write to anthony.hirst@btinternet.com.

Closing date for applications: 31 May 2013

Closing date for funding applications: 3 May 2013

Source: Listserv communication via A. Kaldellis.

Image Source: Hilandar Monastery Greek Manuscript Collection, Andronikov Gospels

Slověne: Online International Journal of Slavic Studies

April 12, 2013 / johnson.60@osu.edu / Comments Off

Issue 2 of Slověne has been published.

Table of Contents:

Björn Wiemer, Veronika Kampf (Mainz). On Conditions Instantiating Tip Effects of Epistemic and Evidential Meanings in Bulgarian / Об условиях, выдвигающих то эпистемические, то эвиденциальные значения в болгарском языке (pp. 5–38) <http://www.slovene.ru/2012_2_Wiemer_Kampf.pdf>

Iskra Hristova-Shomova (Sofia). Календарът на Остромировото евангелие като свидетелство за историята на славянските богослужебни книги / The Calendar of the Ostromir Gospel as Evidence of the History of the Slavonic Liturgical Books (pp. 39–65)<http://www.slovene.ru/2012_2_Hristova-Shomova.pdf>

Michail Oslon (Moscow). Über den Silbenakzent in Juraj Križanićs Dialekt / О слоговых интонациях в диалекте Юрия Крижанича (pp. 66–80)<http://www.slovene.ru/2012_2_Oslon.pdf>

Philip R. Minlos (Moscow). Word Order in Adjective-Noun Pairs Inside and Outside the Prepositional Phrase: A Contribution to the 15th International Congress of Slavists (Minsk, 2013) / Порядок слов в сочетаниях существительного с прилагательным в предложных и беспредложных группах: Доклад к XV Международному съезду славистов (pp. 81–94)<http://www.slovene.ru/2012_2_Minlos.pdf>

Alexander I. Grishchenko (Moscow). Славянские приключения греческого Кеѓата: О происхождении названия древнерусской “Книги Кааф” / The Slavic Adventures of Greek Kohath: On the Origin of the Title of the Old Russian Book of Kaaf (pp. 95–110)<http://www.slovene.ru/2012_2_Grishchenko.pdf>

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RESEARCH NOTES / ЗАМЕТКИ

Larry Labro Koroloff (Toronto). Notes on the Dialect of Zhèrveni, Kostur Region, as Spoken by Their Descendants in Mustafapaşa and Cemilköy, Turkey / Заметки о диалекте с. Же́рвени (район Костура) у переселенцев в Мустафапаше и Джемилькёй (Турция) (pp. 111–116)<http://www.slovene.ru/2012_2_Koroloff.pdf>

Andrey Yu. Vinogradov (Moscow). Особенности борисоглебских торжеств в свете византийской традиции /The Features of Boris and Gleb Festivals in the Light of Byzantine Tradition (pp. 117–134)<http://www.slovene.ru/2012_2_Vinogradov.pdf>

Julia B. Kamchatnova (Moscow). О семантико-стилистическом своеобразии выражения сесть в лужу в русском языке / On the Russian Expression сесть в лужу: Semantic and Stylistic Peculiarities (pp. 135–152)<http://www.slovene.ru/2012_2_Kamchatnova.pdf>

Source: Early Slavic Studies listserv message from Feodor Uspenskii fjodoruspenski@ya.ru

Early Modern Printed Book Open House

April 11, 2013 / johnson.60@osu.edu / Comments Off

Photograph of patrons examining printed books that are displayed on long tables

Early Modern Printed Books Open House, April 3, 2013, Thompson Library

The OSU Libraries held its final open house of the school year, the Early Modern Printed Book Open House, on Wednesday, April 3rd. Organized by Amanda Gluibizzi, Fine Arts Librarian, Eric J. Johnson, Curator of Early Books and Manuscripts, and Melanie McGurr, Instruction and Access Librarian for Special Collections, the Open House “primarily featured books, pamphlets, art and architectural treatises, and travel itineraries in English, Latin, German, French, Italian, and Spanish.

“Items with substantial visual material that date from the 1400s to the 19th century from OSUL’s collections university-wide were available for viewing. Among the artists and authors included were Albrecht Durër, Giorgio Vasari, Leon-Battista Alberti, Andrea Palladio, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Sebastiano Serlio, Baldassare Castiglione, Peter Paul Rubens, William Blake, and many more. Subjects included History, English, Architecture, Entomology, Herbology, Astrology, and more.

“Dr. Johnson was on hand to explain the making and materials of these objects, as well as to help with on-the-spot Latin translations.

photo of title page of Greek early printed book

Greek Triodion, published in Venice by Nicolas Glykys, 1744

“Patrons with freshly clean hands were able to handle the items gently. No backpacks or portfolios, food, drink, or wet media were brought into the room with the materials. Pencils and paper were recommended for note-taking and sketching, and photography was permitted.” Several professors brought their classes to view the materials.

Photo of old printed books lined up on a table

Printed books from the collection of the Hilandar Research Library: Slavic, Greek, and Romanian

The organizers graciously invited the Hilandar Research Library to participate in their Open House this semester. Hilandar displayed five of its Russian Early Printed Books, which were donated by Olga Karpov, Edward Kasinec, Alex Rabinovich et al., as well as its one Greek volume. A Romanian printed book donated by Dehlia and John Negulesco and the rare 18th-century Briusovskaia kalendar’ (Книга именуемая брюсовск̆ои календарь), which was a gift of Alex Rabinovich, were also made available at the Open House.

Lauren Ressue, OSU Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures graduate student and Graduate Associate for the Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies, was on hand at the Open House to assist visitors in deciphering the languages and genres of the HRL early modern printed books.

Source: OSU Libraries’ announcement advertising the Early Modern Printed Book Open House

View more photos from the event on the Facebook page of the OSU Rare Books and Manuscripts Library

Rare Books and Manuscripts on Facebook

Recent Acquisition: Kirilo-Metodievski Studii 21

April 8, 2013 / johnson.60@osu.edu / Comments Off

Newly arrived:

Image of the front cover of the journal Kirilo-Metodievski Studii volume 21

Festschrift to Heinz Miklas

Kirilo-Metodievski Studii 21, which is a festschrift to Heinz Miklas.

Edited by Tatiana Mostrova, with a tribute to Heinz Miklas by Svetlina Nikolova, contributors include: Desislava Atanasova, Elka Bakalova, Galina Baranokova, Aksiniia Dzhurova, Jasmina Grković-Major, Klimentina Ivanova, Ivona Karachorova, Antonija Zaradija Kiš, Alda Giambelluca Kossova, Irina Kuzidova, Georgi Minczew, Boiko Mircheva, Tatiana Mostrova, Svetlina Nikolova, Tatiana Pentkovskaia, Kazimir Popkonstantinov, Maria Schnitter, Irena Špadier, Radoslava Stankova, Anatolii Turilov, William R. Veder, and Christian Voss.

The articles touch on the following topics: Bogomilism, the Gospels of Romanian rulers, the Bychkov Psalter, the Book of Jeremiah, Anastasius of Sinai, the Archangel Michael, St. Clement of Rome, St. Basil the Younger, Cyril of Turov, Bishop Cyprian, the Alexander Myth, the functional styles of Serbian Church Slavonic, etc.

See table of contents.

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New RCMSS website is now live

List of Digitized Manuscripts at the British Library

7th Biennial Medieval Slavic Summer Institute (MSSI)

Cyrillic Manuscript Heritage 33 (June 2013) Available

Conference on Stanislav’s Reading Menologion: May 21, 2013, Sofia, Bulgaria

More on the Romanov Coronation Albums Exhibit at Hillwood Museum, Washington, D.C.

Byzantine Greek Summer School, University of Birmingham, UK

Slověne: Online International Journal of Slavic Studies

Early Modern Printed Book Open House

Recent Acquisition: Kirilo-Metodievski Studii 21

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