Author: Anne PenningtonPublisher:
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
A Union Catalogue of Cyrillic Manuscripts in British and Irish Collections
Author: Anne PenningtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Catalogue of the Slavonic Cyrillic Manuscripts of the National Szechenyi Library
Author: Ralph CleminsonPublisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 6155211957
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This volume provides a thorough introduction to the Cyrillic collection, and contains the detailed descriptions of the fifty-six Slavonic Cyrillic codices or fragments thereof held by the National Széchényi Library in Budapest, the vast majority of which are here described for the first time. The analysis of the codices has been done using the resources of modern technology. Written from the thirteenth to early nineteenth century, the codices were mostly produced within the confines of the historical Kingdom of Hungary. The catalogue is extensively illustrated with pictures of the most characteristic and decorative pages and a few covers of the codices.This publication is a further step towards the complete documentation of the Cyrillic manuscript heritage of Central Europe.
Cyrillic Books Printed Before 1701 in British and Irish Collections
Author: Ralph CleminsonPublisher:
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Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The aim of this catalogue is to give particulars and locations of over 200 copies of some 160 works which are preserved in British and Irish collections. Individual features such as bindings and inscriptions have been noted as well as bibliographic descriptions of titles.
Russian Magic at the British Library
Author: William Francis RyanPublisher:
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Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
The work of W.R.S. Ralston, a Keeper of the British Museum Library in the mid- 19th century and authority on Russian magic and folklore is discussed in this latest addition to the Panizzi Lectures which also looks at travel literature and memoirs and examines both the merits and the problems of using this kind of material as a historical source for the study of popular belief.
Catalog of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of ManuscriptsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Guide to Documents and Manuscripts in the Irish Republic Relating to Russia and the Soviet Union
Author: Janet M. HartleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Solanus
Author: Exploring Written Artefacts
Author: Jörg B. QuenzerPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110753340
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1280
Book Description
This collection, presented to Michael Friedrich in honour of his academic career at of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, traces key concepts that scholars associated with the Centre have developed and refined for the systematic study of manuscript cultures. At the same time, the contributions showcase the possibilities of expanding the traditional subject of ‘manuscripts’ to the larger perspective of ‘written artefacts’.
The Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander
Author: Ekaterina DimitrovaPublisher:
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
The Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander is the outstanding treasure of a cultural and spiritual Renaissance in fourteenth-century Bulgaria, and a masterpiece of Byzantine manuscript art. The Gospels' creation was not only the supreme achievement of Bulgarian medieval culture; it also marked its final flourishing, 500 years after the introduction of Christianity and the Cyrillic script into Bulgaria and shortly before the country's collapse under the invasion of the Ottoman Turks. Commissioned, in 1355 for Tsar Ivan Alexander, the Gospels was completed in just one year by a single scribe, Simeon, and by artists of the Turnovo school, the Bulgarian capital, ecclesiastical and cultural centre, of the time. It contains 367 miniatures, among which is an outstanding portrait of the Tsar himself and his family. Following the fall of Turnovo in 1393, the manuscript was moved to safety across the Danube to Moldavia. By the early seventeenth century it was in the monastery of St Paul on Mount Athos and it was here that in 1837 the young Hon. Robert Curzon contrived to acquire it as a souvenir of his visit.
Latin Books and the Eastern Orthodox Clerical Elite in Kiev, 1632-1780
Author: Liudmila V. CharipovaPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719072963
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Founded in 1632, the library of the Kiev Mohyla Academy went up in flames in 1780. Encompassing predominantly humanist, scholastic and homiletic titles in Latin yet placed in a heartland of Eastern Orthodox territories, the library was something of an anomaly for its time, offering East Slavic intellectuals a comprehensive introduction to Western printed matter. Those books brought along with them not only a new pattern of knowledge, but also an awareness of the diversity and multiplicity of views which the educated could hold.