Old Church Slavonic

Проектът Златоструй: реконструкция. (Chrysorrhoas Project: Reconstruction)

by Yavor Miltenov

В: Компютърни и интерактивни средства за езиковедски изследвания. Сборник доклади от заключителната конференция. София, 2011, 85–95. (In: Computer and Interactive Tools for Linguistic Research. Papers from the Closing Conference. Sofia, 2011, 85–95).

My own copy (in fact - draft version), not a scan from the book. It's in Bulgarian.

The paper deals with the reconstruction of the history of a Chrysostomian text corpus, constituted in 10th century... more The paper deals with the reconstruction of the history of a Chrysostomian text corpus, constituted in 10th century Bulgaria and commissioned by king Symeon, that was named (alledgedly by the ruler) Zlatostruy, i.e. Chrysorrhoas. The way it was compiled, the idea behind it and its impact fully justify the use of term project about it.
The corpus consisted of more than 150 homilies translated from Greek. Only excerpts from it have survived in other collections, which means that a text critical analysis should be undertaken in order to reconstruct its initial contents and the archetype of each text.

О гебраизме МАШЛѦХЪ в Палее Толковой (=On the Hebraism MAŠL’AKH ‘Messias’ in the Palaea Interpretata)

by Alexander Grishchenko

published in: ‘Vestnik Literaturnogo instituta im. A.M. Gor'kogo’, Moscow, 2012, No. 1 (= Hermeneumata: Sbornik nauchnykh trudov k 60-letiyu Prof. A.M. Kamchatnova), pp. 15–22.

The paper preliminarily reviews the manuscript tradition of Hebraism mašl’akh occurred in the Palaea Interpretata. It... more The paper preliminarily reviews the manuscript tradition of Hebraism mašl’akh occurred in the Palaea Interpretata. It was undoubtedly borrowed from the Hebrew משיח ‘Messiah’ directly, i.e. without Greek mediation. The spelling mašl’akh indicates that this word was used in Slavonic as spoken form for a long time: Hebrew mašíax > Slavonic mašǐjaxъ > mašjax > mašl’ax. Considering the chronology of the loss of reduced vowels, the form mašjax could appear in Old Bulgarian in the 11th c., and in Old Russian in the 12th c.
Unfortunately, the corresponding forms mašika and mašiaak in the Old Russian Florilegium (Izbornik) of the 13th c. (National Library of Russia in St. Petersburg, Q.п.I.18) are not noted in the paper.

“The distinguishing features of the calendar in the Codex Suprasliensis”, in: A. Miltenova (ed.), Preotkrivane: Suprasŭlski sbornik. Starobŭlgarski pametnik ot X vek (Rediscovery: Bulgarian Codex Suprasliensis of 10th century). Sofija, BAN, 51-74 (2012).

by Cynthia M. Vakareliyska

The syntax-morphology interface: A study of syncretism

by Greville G. Corbett

Matthew Baerman, Dunstan Brown and Greville G. Corbett. 2005. The Syntax-Morphology Interface: A study of syncretism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, xix + 281pp. [Issued in paperback, 2009.]

The morphology/syntax interface: evidence from possessive adjectives in Slavonic

by Greville G. Corbett

Review of: Саввина книга: Древнеславянская рукопись XI, XI—XII и конца XIII века

by Alexei Kassian

In: Philologica 1999/2000. Т.6, №.14/16. С. 363-376.

A review of a recent edition of the four Old Slavonic manuscripts know as Savva's book. A review of a recent edition of the four Old Slavonic manuscripts know as Savva's book.

“A Late Witness to the Early Text of the Old Slavic Acts.” Crkvene Studije. Godinjak Centra za crkvene studije, 1.1 (2004): 205–12.

by Alex Kyrychenko

"The Old Slavonic Acts in 'Apparatus Critici' of the Greek NT: Observations and Suggestions." Novum Testamentum 47.1 (2005): 69-74.

by Alex Kyrychenko

The Old Slavonic testimony is treated differently in the Acts of the Apostles in UBSGNT4 and N- A27, the two major... more The Old Slavonic testimony is treated differently in the Acts of the Apostles in UBSGNT4 and N- A27, the two major contemporary hand-editions of the Greek New Testament. The former cites it at nearly every point of variance, yet not always correctly, whereas the latter omits it entirely. Although the Old Slavonic testimony is relatively late and has not been adequately researched, it can provide valuable textual insight, especially in instances where manuscript support is negligible and/or in which the Old Slavonic reading also occurs in other versions.

"The Old Slavic Acts of the Apostles: Computer-Assisted Analysis and Comparative Presentation of the Texts." Palaeobulgarica 28.3 (2004): 46–66.

by Alex Kyrychenko

[REVIEW] Tatyana Slavova. Ruler and Administration in Early Medieval Bulgaria: Philological Perspectives. Sofia: PAM Publishing Company, 2010, 344 p. – Uncommon Culture, Vol. 2, no. 1 (3)(2011): From Closed Doors to Open Gates.

by Yavor Miltenov

Review of Alexander Kulik's Retroverting Slavonic Pseudepigrapha

by Andrei Orlov

The Face as the Heavenly Counterpart of the Visionary in the Slavonic Ladder of Jacob

by Andrei Orlov

Zur Nominalkomposition in den Schriftperikopen der abg. (aksl.) Denkmäler Euchologium Sinaiticum (1/N) und Missale Sinaiticum (5/N) und ihren griechischen Paralleltexten

by Velizar Sadovski

In: Sâkrovishte sloves'noe. Festschrift Jerzy Rusek. Kraków – Warszawa 2000, 113-133.

Klassifikation der aksl. Nominalkomposita am Material der 1975 gefundenen Fragmenten Euchologium Sinaiticum (1/N) und Missale Sinaiticum (5/N) und ihrer griechischen Parallelen

by Velizar Sadovski

In: Glagolitica. Zum Ursprung der slavischen Schriftkultur, hrsg. von Heinz Miklas unter der redaktionellen Mitarbeit von Sylvia Richter und Velizar Sadovski. Wien 2000 (Proceedings of the Conference "Glagolitica. Zum Ursprung der slavischen Schriftkultur. Vatroslav Oblak (1864-1896) und Bernd von Arnim (1899-1946) zum Gedächtnis", Vienna, September 1996).

Michael the grammarian's irony about hypsilon. A step towards recostructing byzantine pronunciation in Byzantinoslavica 67 (2009) 161-168

by Frederick Lauritzen

Poem IV of Michael the Grammarian edited by Mercati may be dated to ca. 1030
because of a reference to Philip of... more Poem IV of Michael the Grammarian edited by Mercati may be dated to ca. 1030
because of a reference to Philip of Amorion. Since the poem contains clear references
to the different pronunciation of the letter iota and hypsilon one may deduce that at
that time they effectively represented two different sounds. This is also confirmed by
the near contemporary evidence of Church Slavonic. If hypsilon represented a sound
similar to a French u or a German ü there are important consequences for the study of
Anatolian dialects as well as codicology.

The Slavonic Translation of Ps.-Kaisarios’ Erotapokriseis.

by Yavor Miltenov

In: Proceedings of the 22nd International Congress of Byzantine Studies (Sofia, 22-27 August 2011). Vol. II. Abstracts of Round Tables Communications. Sofia 2011, p. 73.

This is the publication of the abstract of my 22nd International Congress of Byzantine Studies' paper.
You can find the full text of the paper in "Talks" section.

Славянский перевод слова Иоанна Златоуста De sancto hieromartyre Phoca. (The Slavonic Translation of John Chrysostom's Homily De sancto hieromartyre Phoca)

by Yavor Miltenov

Byzantinoslavica, 59/1–2, 2011, 311–368.
The paper is published in Russian, I attach here its draft version in Bulgarian, thus have in mind that some errors with the fonts after converting the file and some old data may be preserved in it.

The Slavonic version of St. John Chrysostom’s homily De sancto hieromartyre Phoca (BHG 1537, CPG 4364) emerged in the... more The Slavonic version of St. John Chrysostom’s homily De sancto hieromartyre Phoca (BHG 1537, CPG 4364) emerged in the beginning of the 10th c. in Bulgaria and came to us in the longer redaction of the Zlatostruy (Chrysorrhoas) collection. The present study is devoted to a comparison of the witnesses, building a stemma codicum and identifying the characteristics of the Slavonic archetype. Attached, an edition of the Slavonic version (according to seven copies) and parallel Greek text is being included.


Славянская версия слова Иоанна Златоуста De sancto hieromartyre Phoca (BHG 1537, CPG 4364) возникла в нач. Х в. и дошла до нас в составе полной редакции сборника Златоструй. Настоящее исследование включает в себя текстологическое сопоставление свидетелях, создание stemma codicum и выявление характеристик славянского архетипа. Анализ сопровождается публикацией славянской версии по семи копий с параллельным греческим текстом.

A New Source for Studying the Symeonic Zlatostruy Collection.

by Yavor Miltenov

Scripta & e-Scripta, 8–9, 2010, 387–404.

Draft version.

The Slavonic MS Voskr. 115-bum. from the State Historical Museum in Moscow, was written in Hilandar Monastery on Mount... more The Slavonic MS Voskr. 115-bum. from the State Historical Museum in Moscow, was written in Hilandar Monastery on Mount Athos by the famous copyist Damian, who worked there in 1340-1380.
The manuscript contains 27 Chrysostomian and Pseudo-Chrysostomian homilies (1r-129v), and a miscellany (130r-247v), which consists of unedited and unstudied copies of works, emerged in East Bulgaria in the 9-10 c.
The paper aims at a detailed description of the entries from the Chrysostomian collection in Voskr. 115-bum., which hasn't been a subject of an exhaustive analysis so far. At the same time, an juxtaposition with the entries, found in the Zlatostruy or Chrysorrhoas collection (compiled in Bulgaria under the supervision of King Symeon, 893-927), is made too.
The comparative text critical analysis has shown that nеither the long redaction of Chrysorrhoas, nor the short one (the most reliable witnesses of the initial tenth-century collection, which is now lost) are direct sources of Voskr. 115-bum.
In all likehood the protograph of our manuscript was an independent selection from the initial Symeonic Corpus Chrysostomicum. For this reason Voskr. 115-bum. is a very important source for studying the transmission of each homily, for building critical edititions and, which is most important, for reconstructing the history of the lost Old Bulgarian protocollection of Chrysostomian works.

Неизвестен славянски превод на словото De neomeniis et de sabbatis et de non observandis auium vocibus от Псевдо-Евсевий Александрийски. (An Unknown Slavic Translation of Pseudo-Eusebius of Alexandria Homily De neomeniis et de sabbatis et de non observandis auium vocibus)

by Yavor Miltenov

Старобългарска литература, 41–42 (Юбилеен сборник в чест на 60-годишнината на Красимир Станчев и Александър Наумов), 2009, 207–225.
Co-authored with Anisava Miltenova.

Чудно естъ бесѣдовати съ царемь... (Две приписки от ръкопис Sin. slav. 20/N) (Чудно естъ бесѣдовати съ царемь... (Two Inscriptions in MS Sin. slav. 20/N))

by Yavor Miltenov

В: Филология. История. Изкуствознание. Сборник изследвания в чест на проф. дфн Стефан Смядовски. София, 2010, 65–72.

How the man of letters met the king himself and how this event was recorded in MS Sin. slav. 20/N. How the man of letters met the king himself and how this event was recorded in MS Sin. slav. 20/N.