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Dr. Yvonne Burns (1920-1998): Comparative Studies on Greek and Slavonic Gospel Lectionaries

The Hilandar Research Library received a query regarding the work of Dr. Yvonne Eileen Burns, whose published scholarship focused on Greek and Slavonic Gospel lectionaries. A “former lecturer in Serbocroat Language and Literature, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London,” Dr. Burns received her doctorate from the University of London in 1975.  Her dissertation, available online to download, is entitled A Comparative Study of the Weekday Lection Systems Found in Some Greek and Early Slavonic Gospel Lectionaries.

As indicated in various early volumes of Polata knigopisnaia: An informational bulletin devoted to the study of early Slavic books, texts and literatures, edited by William R. Veder (University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands) and Mario Capaldo (Università di Roma, Italia), Dr. Burns was active in the early 1980s presenting at conferences (such as the 21-24 March 1981: Birmingham. Fifteenth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies: Byzantium and the Slavs), attending meetings (e.g., 7 November 1981, Oxford: Meeting of the Slavic and East European Medieval Study Group, see the abstract of her “Lection Systems and Rubrics in the Study of Greek and Slavonic Gospel Manuscripts“) and publishing (she submitted a bibliography, pp. 80-81).

Robert F. Taft, S.J., cites the work of Dr. Burns in his The Byzantine Rite: A Short History (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1992), 49n17. There is an online Russian translation.

More recently, Dr. Burns was cited with Elena Velkovska for the significance of their individual research in Daniel Galadza’s 2018 book, Liturgy and Byzantinization in Jerusalem (Oxford University Press, p. 302):

“Similar studies on the lectionary have also been undertaken for the Byzantine rite, allowing a comparison between Hagiopolite and Constantinopolitan practices. The works of Yvonne Burns and Elena Velkovska are fundamental to an understanding of the structure and development of Byzantine lectionaries.”

Dr. Burns died on September 16, 1998 in Claygate, Surrey, England.

 

Selected Bibliography

“The Canaanites and Other Additional Lections in Early Slavonic Lectionaries.” Revue des études sud-est européennes 13 (1975): 525-528. Bucharest.

“Chapter Numbers in Greek and Slavonic Gospel Codices.” New Testament Studies 23.3 (1977) 320-333. Cambridge.

“The Historical Events that Occasioned the Inception of the Byzantine Gospel Lectionaries.” Jahrbuch der österreichischen Byzantinistik 32.4 (1982): 119-127. Wien.

“The Lectionary of the Patriarch of Constantinople.” Studia Patristica 15.1 (1984): 515-520. Berlin.

“The Numbering of the Johannine Saturdays and Sundays in Greek and Slavonic Gospel Lectionaries.” Palaeobulgarica/Старобългаристика 1.2 (1977): 43-55. Sofia.

[Бернс, Ивона.] “Распоред недељних перикопа у Мирослављевом јеванђељу”/’The Weekday Lection System of Miroslav’s Gospel.’ Зборник Народног музеја 6 (1970): 259-286. Beograd.

Conference: Hilandar Monastery and Other Repositories, 1981

 

A working conference devoted to “Hilandar Monastery and Other Repositories of Medieval Slavic Manuscripts: Research Needs and Opportunities” was held April 11-13, 1981 at Ohio State University [sic], Columbus, Ohio. Image of the cover of the booklet containing the reports of the Working Conference on the Hilandar Research Project, April 1981The Very Rev. Dr. Mateja Matejic presented an update on the Hilandar Research Project, representatives from various countries reported on the status of Slavic and medieval studies, and recommendations regarding the future work and development of the Hilandar Research Project were made by working groups composed from 45 scholars of 31 institutions of higher education in North America and Europe.

Reports were presented on collections in Belgium (Francis Thomson), Bulgaria (Petŭr Dinekov), Canada (Richard Pope), repositories holding Croatian Glagolitic manuscripts (Anica Nazor), Italy (Mario Capaldo), Macedonia (Lidija Slaveva), the Netherlands (Anton Van den Baar), Serbia (Dimitrije Bogdanović), and the United States (Riccardo Picchio).

Other participants from Europe included: Matej Cazacu and Paul-Hubert Poirier (France); Aksiniia Džhurova, Ivan Dujčev, Stefan Kožuharov, Kujo Kuev, Krumka Sharova, and Borjana Velcheva (Bulgaria); David Huntley (Canada); Vera Mutafčieva (Austria); Aleksander Naumow and Jerzy Rusek (Poland); Andrei Robinson (USSR); Antoine-Emile Tachiaos (Greece); and William Veder (the Netherlands).

Attendees from the US were: Julia Allisandratos (MIT); John Fine,  Ladislav Matejka, and Benjamin Stolz (University of Michigan); Priest-monk Ioannikios (Holy Trinity Monastery, Jordanville, NY); Edward Kasinec (University of California, Berkeley); Maxine Lebo (Reston, Virginia); Horace Lunt and Hugh Olmsted (Harvard University);  Robert Mathiesen (Brown University); Gordon McDaniel (Seattle, WA); Olivera Nedić (Chicago); Philip Shashko (University of Wisconsin); Daniel Waugh (University of Washington); and Dean Worth (UCLA).

Participants from OSU were: Bert Beynen, Sharon Fullerton, Charles Gribble, Predrag Matejic, David Robinson, and Leon Twarog.

 

Call for Papers: Polata Knigopisnaia, Volume 39

 

Polata Knigopisnaia publishes scholarly articles, editions, indexes, and bibliographical and review essays related to Early Slavic texts, manuscripts, and early printed books, and their historical and cultural contexts. This is a call for papers to appear in vol. 39. Authors considering submission are encouraged to contact an editor (see below) to discuss length and subject matter, and to obtain a style sheet.

Image of the front cover of the journal Polata knigopisnaia, volume 1.

 

The current editors of Polata Knigopisnaia adopted an editorial-board peer review system for contributions beginning with volume 38. All contributions that the editors consider to fit the scope and criteria of PK will be reviewed anonymously by two members of the editorial board.

 

Polata knigopisnaja: An informational bulletin devoted to the study of early Slavic books, texts and literatures was founded by William R. Veder (University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands) and Mario Capaldo (University of Rome, Italy) in 1978. They generously allowed all past issues accessible freely via the internet through the Hilandar Research Library and The Ohio State University Libraries (Columbus, Ohio). From its 2006 issue PK has been available exclusively on-line through the OSU Knowledge Bank.

 

Editors of Polata Knigopisnaia:
Cristiano Diddi, Università degli Studi di Salerno <crdiddi@unisa.it>
M.A. Johnson, The Ohio State University <johnson.60@osu.edu>
Robert Romanchuk, Florida State University <rromanchuk@fsu.edu>