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Cyrillic Manuscript Heritage Volume 31 June 2012 The Ohio State THE HILANDAR RESEARCH LIBRARY Columbus University THE RESOURCE CENTER FOR MEDIEVAL SLAVIC STUDIES Ohio OSU Libraries Appoints Sixth International Hilandar Conference Associate Curator for HRL The Ohio State University “Mary-Allen (Pasha) Johnson has been appointed Assistant Pro- fessor and Associate Curator of the Hilandar Research Library (HRL).” 19 – 21 July 2013 With these words published in the 28 March 2012 issue of News Notes: The Sixth International Hilandar Conference will be OSU Libraries news for faculty & staff, Lisa Carter, Associate Director held at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, for Special Collections and Area Studies, made the official announcement July 19-21, 2013. The conference theme is Medieval Slavic that Pasha had been hired and that she would begin work on May 1st. Text and Image in the Cultures of Orthodoxy. We in- Lisa stressed that Pasha “will play a key role in developing and exposing vite abstracts (not to exceed 500 words in length) of the unique, highly distinctive resources available in the HRL … [and proposed presentations to be sent as Word.doc at- that she] will contri- tachments to [email protected] prior to February 1, bute significantly to 2013. A sub-committee of the Advisory Council to the collection manage- Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies will review ment, research assis- all submissions. Further details will be announced in the tance and engage- next issue of Cyrillic Manuscript Heritage and through ment activities.” Lisa various listservs and other venues. Carter noted that “she The conference will follow immediately after the con- Photo by Helene Senecal will also provide gui- clusion of the 2013 Medieval Slavic Summer Institute dance ... for the Libra- (scheduled for June 24-July 19, 2013). We look forward ries’ Eastern Euro- to introducing participants and guests to the recently pean and Slavic activi- renovated Thompson Library, the Jack and Jan Creigh- ties in Area Studies.” ton Special Collections Reading Room, and the enhanced Medieval Slavic research, teaching and preservation opportunities now scholars who have at the disposal of the HRL. utilized the resources of the HRL in the past The new Associate Curator browses HRL likely recall Pasha, INSIDE FEATURES reference works in the stacks who was the first to have the title of assistant curator of the HRL, and who was before that Director’s Desk – Page 2 a Graduate Research Associate for the Resource Center for Medieval Project Codex Suprasliensis by Anissava Slavic Studies for several years. For the past five years, she has been in Miltenova – Pages 3 and 9 her native Louisiana, taking the opportunity to enhance her academic and professional resume. Pasha recently earned a Masters in Library HRL Journal featuring Svetlina Nikolova and William R. Veder – Pages 4 and 5 and Information Science from Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge) and then worked as an archivist in the Newcomb Archives, Newcomb HRL News Notes – Pages 6, 7 and 8 College Institute of Tulane University, New Orleans. Her previous work Guide to Upcoming Medieval and Slavic and background as well as her more recent experience and expertise Workshops, Conferences, Exhibits – Page 8 will undoubtedly benefit the work and missions of the HRL, the Special Collections and Area Studies, and the OSU Libraries (see already the In Memoriam – Page 10 announcement on the back page!). Please join us in welcoming Pasha Gifts in Kind, Donors – Page 11 to her new home in the renovated Thompson Library. 2 Cyrillic Manuscript Heritage June 2012 Congratulations to several former OSU graduates of medieval Slavic and MSSI Director’s Desk Dr. Predrag Matejic participants, especially the class of 2008: Christin Michelle Laroche Wilson (OSU July 1st of this year will mark the com- ference. It was their recommendation that Linguistics) earned her doctorate and gra- pletion of my 30-year tenure as Curator of the two events be held consecutively, thus duated Spring 2012; Matthew C. Curtis the Hilandar Research Library. It is a good giving MSSI 2013 participants an oppor- (OSU Linguistics) also earned a doctorate time to pause and reflect. And, in doing so, tunity to attend (possibly even present!) and will graduate June 2012; and Susana I can honestly say at the conference. The proposed dates ac- Torres Prieto became the Chairperson of that I am as confi- commodate the change to semesters that the prestigious Slavonic and East Euro- dent and pleased will go into effect at OSU in August. pean Mediæval Studies Group, which is as ever about the We had several guest researchers, es- largely British and European in member- HRL and its fu- pecially in April and May. These included ship. Ljiljana Ðuraškovi‹ (MSSI 2003), ture. An impor- Anissava Miltenova (Head, Department who now teaches at the University of Pitts- tant step towards of Old Bulgarian Literature at the Institute burgh, this spring earned her OSU doc- that future was the of Literature, Bulgarian Academy of Sci- torate in the Slavic Department. And most hiring – following ences), Danica Petrovi‹ (Director, Insti- recently, Monica Vickers (MSSI 2011) a national search tute of Musicology, Serbian Academy of passed her MA qualifying exams. and careful con- Sciences and Arts), Isolde Thyret and James Joshua Pennington had a re- sideration of sev- Rodney Bohac (Professors of History, Kent vised version of his OSU Slavic MA the- eral candidates by a search committee – State University), and Tatiana Nikolova- sis – “If the U Fits: an Orthographic Ano- of Mary-Allen “Pasha” Johnson to a new Houston (Texas artist and an independent maly in the Miroslav Gospel” – accepted faculty position in the OSU Libraries – scholar). The HRL continued to receive a for publication. It is to appear in Aleksan- Associate Curator of the Hilandar Research growing number of reference questions and der Strakhov (ed.), Palaeoslavica XX, Sla- Library. requests for copies from the United States vic Medieval Literature, History, and Lan- Pasha is well known to our patrons of and Europe, and from as far as Siberia. guage. Josh presents a hitherto unrecog- the past 25 years or so. She has a proven There were four presentations of spe- nized and unique pattern in the orthogra- record of effective service to our research- cial note. February 2nd, MSSI 2001 guest phy of the primary scribe of the oldest ex- ers, whether here at Ohio State, or remotely. lecturer Valerie Kivelson (Arthur F. Thur- tant Serbian manuscript (Gospel of Prince In returning to us at this time, however, nau Professor of History, University of Miroslav, 1190-1200) that had been housed she brings new experiences and expertise Michigan) spoke on “Mapping Magic: The in Hilandar Monastery until it was sent as that will serve the HRL and its researchers Sites of Witchcraft in 17th-Century Rus- a gift to Serbia in the late 19th century. in other, even better, ways. Pasha began sia” as part of the lecture series “Mapping work on May 1st and has already made an Minds, Bodies, and Worlds” of OSU’s Cen- continued on page 10 impact. We can only wish her continued ter for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. success in her work, and in her profes- On March 26th, at the OSU Seminar in Rus- CYRILLIC MANUSCRIPT sional and academic development. sian, East European, and Eurasian History, The membership of the Advisory Coun- former HRL researcher and OSU graduate HERITAGE cil to RCMSS has been revised (see page Matthew P. Romaniello (University of Director/Curator: PREDRAG MATEJIC 8). It was decided to add two non-OSU Hawai’i at Manoa, History) spoke on “The Associate Curator: M.A. JOHNSON members, both of whom have regularly Elusive Empire: Kazan and the Creation of Assistant Curator: LYUBOMIRA GRIBBLE promoted and contributed to the missions Russia, 1552-1671,” a topic originally re- Managing Editor: HELENE SENECAL of RCMSS and the HRL. Jenn Spock (Pro- searched and developed at OSU. We also Media Consultant: LORRAINE NETRETIƒ fessor of History, Eastern Kentucky Uni- congratulate him on the publication of his Graduate Associate: PETER DESIMONE versity) has been conducting research at book of the same title (Madison, WI: Uni- the HRL since 1992, as well as serving as versity of Wisconsin Press, 2012), a copy Hilandar Research Library an MSSI guest lecturer. David Birnbaum of which he generously donated to us. Our Resource Center for (Chair, Slavic Languages & Literatures, former GRA Tania Ivanova-Sullivan (Uni- Medieval Slavic Studies The Ohio State University University of Pittsburgh), a former gradu- versity of New Mexico) on April 5th dis- 119 Thompson Library ate student and researcher, is also a regu- cussed her current research topic “Heri- Columbus, Ohio 43210-1286 lar MSSI guest lecturer and an innova- tage Speakers of Russian” as part of the tive developer of some of the newest, OSU Slavic Linguistics Forum. Cynthia Telephone: 614-292-0634 most promising Cyrillic manuscript XML Vakareliyska (Professor of Linguistics, Fax: 614-688-8417 data management applications and com- University of Oregon) on April 26th gave E-mail: [email protected] puting projects in the humanities. a public lecture sponsored in part by the Website: cmrs.osu.edu/rcmss/ Among the first topics discussed by HRL and RCMSS: “Demonstration of an Blog: http://library.osu.edu/blogs/ the Advisory Council were the 2013 MSSI Online Collation of Medieval Slavic, Greek medieval-slavic/ and the 6th International Hilandar Con- and Latin Calendars of Saints.” June 2012 Cyrillic Manuscript Heritage 3 A New Digital Edition of the Codex Suprasliensis By Anissava Miltenova Codex Suprasliensis, a Cyrillic manuscript copied in the late 10th century, is now available online in a digital format. The codex, also known as the Retkov Miscel- lany for its primary scribe Retko, was named Codex Suprasliensis after the SupraÑl Monastery in northeastern Poland, where it was discovered in 1823 by the Slavicist and Orientalist Micha» Bobrowski (1784-1848), who was a professor at the Univer- sity of Vilnius.