Cyrillic Manuscript Heritage

Volume 31 June 2012

The Ohio State THE 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 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. In the middle of the 19th century, the manuscript was divided into three parts. The UNESCO project website of Codex Suprasliensis http://csup.ilit

Photo by Helene Senecal .bas.bg/ now reunites these parts virtually, and will include additional apparatuses in order to facilitate the analysis and study of the text. As it exists today, Codex Suprasliensis (CS) comprises 285 folia and is housed in three libraries. Canon Micha» Bo- browski sent the codex to the Slovenian scholar Bartholo- mäus (Jernej) Kopitar to study. Anissava Miltenova works on projects in the After Kopitar’s death, the first HRL during her recent visit 118 folia were preserved in the University Library in Ljublja- na, Slovenia, where they still remain. Sixteen folia were purchased by Afanasii F. Bychkov in 1856 and are now located in the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg. The remaining 151 leaves wound up in the collection of Count Zamoyski; they disappeared during World War II and were long considered lost until they reemerged in the USA and were returned to Poland in 1968.* They are now located in the National Library in Warsaw. The CS includes twenty-four texts of the lives of Christian saints for the month of March and twenty-three homilies for the triodion cycle of the church year. Most of the hagiographical works are lives of martyrs from the 3rd-4th centuries, such as SS. Paul and Juliana, the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste, St. Pionius, presbyter of Smyrna, et al. In content it is a lectionary menaion (or panegyric), combined with homilies from the movable Easter cycle, most of which were written by or are attributed to St. John Chrysostom. CS is a source of primary importance for the development both of the tech- niques of translation and of the norms of the Old Bulgarian language of the late 10th century. It has been listed in UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register since 2007. New research work on CS began in 2011 in the Institute Page 4 of a brochure entitled “The Tenth-Century of Literature, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) Old Bulgarian Manuscript Codex Suprasliensis in the in Sofia, Bulgaria, in the framework of this project Context of Byzantine-Slavonic Relationships,” financed by UNESCO and in collaboration with six written by Elena Tomova, Maria Yovcheva and Anissava Miltenova (Institute of Literature, BAS), countries. available on the Codex Suprasliensis website. As mentioned above, the project unites vir- tually all of the extant parts of the CS. The digital images are already available at http://csup.ilit.bas.bg/ galleries. A separate publication of a photographic facsimile is in its interim stage in the project, and the photographs will eventually be republished together with a fully annotated transcription, and accom- panied by commentary and an updated bibliography. The current project aims also to develop an electronic version of CS, together with a critical appara- tus, a parallel Greek text, a modern translation, vocabulary, a grammatical analysis, and tools for search- ing. Digital images of every page of the manuscript will be available simultaneously with the transcribed text as a unified electronic product. The electronic version of the CS will be freely available under a Ornamental letter “O” from the Ljubljana Creative Commons “By Attribution/Non-Commercial/Share Alike” license. portion of CS continued on page 9 4 Cyrillic Manuscript Heritage June 2012

other church leaders and men of letters of of Ioan Exarch (menaion- and triodion-type that time. Closely associated with the court panegyrics; miscellanies with homilies and HRL Journal of Tsar Simeon I (893-927), Ioan Exarch pro- vitae; menaia with homilies and vitae; vari- In this feature, Cyrillic Manuscript Heri- duced an impressive – both in volume and ous kinds of miscellany collections, etc.). tage asks researchers who have used the quality – corpus of literary texts. His works Today, recalling the two months spent Hilandar Research Library in the past year, were not confined to the boundaries of Bul- in the HRL, I see with great satisfaction whether in person or through copies re- garian written culture. Copied in Serbian that I returned home with a veritable “bou- ceived, to describe their experiences and and Russian medieval scriptoria, they quet” of Ioan Exarch’s sermons – the HRL work. Scholars who wish to contribute items may send them to CMH. were disseminated throughout the lands of the Slavic-speaking Orthodox people. Until now, scholars have focused their at- Researching the tention mainly upon two of his works – the so-called “On Orthodox Christianity” Sermons of and the “Hexameron.” Scholars rarely wrote about his ser- Ioan Exarch mons, although these already had been Photo by Helene Senecal discovered at the beginning of the 19th By Svetlina Nikolova century. Researchers had not yet even es- The Resource Center for Medieval Sla- tablished their total number. To a large ex- vic Studies and the Hilandar Research Li- tent, this was due to the fact that the ex- brary in October and November 2011 gra- tent and range of the manuscript tradition ciously provided me a splendid opportu- of the sermons was unclear. The known nity to focus my undivided attention on texts at our disposal did not provide suf- the study of medieval Slavic manuscripts ficiently consistent grounds for analysis. – my favorite activity ever since I was in Another important issue is the actual pres- college. The two months were both suffi- ence of Ioan Exarch’s sermons in the life cient and insufficient in terms of my re- of medieval society. Dedicated to major search. Never before had I had the chance church holidays and most likely delivered to spend so much time working exclusively in front of believers, these sermons should Svetlina Nikolova views the with HRL’s collection of microfilms of me- have influenced both medieval men of let- Special Collections display cases located in Thompson Library dieval Slavic manuscripts. And yet, the ters and other listeners. For this reason, time seemed insufficient given the size of the investigation of the presence of such collections contain the Bulgarian, Serbian, this unique collection. Carefully preserved a cultural tradition within medieval Bulgar- and Russian copies of the seven sermons, and constantly enriched in the course of ian, Serbian, and Russian literature and regarded today as written by him, as well several decades, the HRL houses micro- everyday life is a worthy endeavor. as some modified texts of his works that I films of a vast number of manuscripts. The I began with the conviction that the found in manuscripts written in the course original manuscripts are preserved in im- search, examination, and the systemic ar- of some 400 years (beginning of the 9th portant, but difficult to access or actually rangement of the works that had survived – end of the 17th centuries). Inspired by inaccessible libraries scattered throughout till our times are prerequisites for reliable my new discoveries, I am now preparing the world. In order to use my time effec- conclusions about a range of issues per- several different studies about the most tively, I decided to focus my attention on taining to the sermons. In 2005, I published interesting copies of his works. My long- the microfilms of codices written up to the the first results concerning the two ser- term objective is to produce a monograph seventeenth century. In so doing, I was mons about the nativity of Christ. The fact that will contain all my observations about able to discover a number of previously that it was still possible to find previously the manuscript tradition as well as offer a unknown texts and was able not only to unknown early South Slavic copies of Ioan comprehensive analysis of the textual expand the group of previously known pri- Exarch’s sermons led me to the idea of ex- tradition of Ioan Exarch’s sermons dur- mary sources, but also to reach certain con- amining the possible fate of his other ser- ing the Middle Ages. clusions for which there had been no re- mons in the textual traditions of medieval The peaceful and tolerant atmosphere liable data. Bulgaria, Serbia, and Russia. Obviously, that always reigns in the HRL guarantees The main objective of my research was the search had to continue in HRL – a place productive and pleasant work. The stu- to find, identify, and examine the texts of in the world where so many manuscripts dents and researchers of the medieval the sermons of Ioan Exarch, one of the created within the realm of the Orthodox Slavic heritage, who come to work there most prominent founders of the Bulgarian Slavs during various periods of time were from all over the world, have always re- church and architects of Bulgarian written gathered together on microfilm. Moreover, garded and will continue to regard those culture (end of the 9th – beginning of the in the HRL collections one can find all types who created, worked, and now work in this 10th century). Fortunately, his name is of codices, many of South Slavic prov- library with respect and appreciation. For known to us, unlike the names of many enance, that traditionally include the texts continued on page 10 June 2012 Cyrillic Manuscript Heritage 5

HRL Journal, continued from page 4 the Lestvica in the Trinity–St. Sergius explains the late appearance in script of Monastery north of Moscow (available nasal vowels and the distinction z : dz). in full facsimile @www.stsl.ru). One (Ms. What we find here is a type of manu- Run of the Mill? 10) represents version a, ten (155, 158, 161, script tradition almost unknown in West- 167-70, 183-5) version b, and six (156-7, ern Europe before the humanists’ discov- Hardly! 159-60, 162, 171) version c. The copy of ery of key witnesses to the texts of classi- version a was imported from outside the cal antiquity, which were copied again and By William R. Veder monastery (it is dated three years before again by droves of scholars: a flat tradi- At the first Hilandar Conference (Co- its foundation), but those of versions b tion, in which one and the same exemplar lumbus, April 1981), one evening Ivan Duj- and c were more likely made in the monas- engenders progeny over a long time. It cevˇ asked Mario Capaldo and me, “Why tery itself: Mss. 156 and 185 state so in seems, indeed, as if the two Glagolitic do you bother to study those Pateriki? their colophon, and all the others were manuscripts at the Trinity–St. Sergius That isn’t going to get you anywhere.” made from either of their exemplars. The Monastery enjoyed the fame of “arche- He had in mind, I think, that run-of-the- ten copies of b and the six of c, indeed, types.” What we should do now is to mill translations from Greek like the Egipet- show no variation in text, only in spelling. check if the 12 copies of the Lestvica in skij and Azbuˇcno-Ierusalimskij Paterik Now why should manuscripts differ the collection of Hilandar Monastery be- by Mario or my Skitskij Paterik could not only in spelling? Is it because the scribes long to such a flat tradition, too, and then contribute a great deal to the knowledge were keen to demonstrate their individu- broaden our search to include other South of Slavic history. Mario was quick to prof- Slavic collections. fer arguments for source research that In September 2011, I had an opportu- aims to reach the origin of a tradition; I nity to take a good look at Hil. 646 (ver- could do no better in the face of a ques- sion c) and was able to establish that it tion so sweeping. Only now after over 40 shows the same transcription features as years on the shop floor, can I confidently the Trinity–St. Sergius copies. It is indeed say, “Every text has its own story to tell unfortunate that the facsimiles available of the circumstances of its transmission.” @ scc.digital.nb.rs show only certain im-

Take the Lestvica, the translation of St. Veder Photo courtesy of W. ages, not entire manuscripts, but there is John Climacus’ Ladder of Divine Ascent. enough text available to claim that the It is known in over 500 manuscript copies 14th-cent. manuscripts NBS Rs.93 (ver- William R. Veder (12th – 18th cent.) that transmit three ver- sion a), Decaniˇ 71 and Pe‹ 87 (version b) sions of the text (leaving aside various ality? But why then did they leave traces and Decaniˇ 74 and Pe‹ 97 (version c) are 17th-century copy/editions): one of circa of their dialect not consistently, only ac- not copied from Cyrillic but transcribed 56,000 words with a marked Preslav ac- cidentally? Were younger scribes affected from Glagolitic exemplars. And there is evi- cent (a), one of c. 60,000 words that most by the so–called “second South Slavic dence that the case of the Lestvica is not closely follows the Greek (b), and one of influence” and tried to overlay it over the isolated: in the South Slavic area, all cop- c. 64,000 words which contains Slavic text? Any such question must be an- ies of the Skitskij Paterik up to the end enhancements to the narrative and snip- swered in the negative. The 17 copies, in of the 14th cent. were made from the 9th- pets of the translation of the patristic com- fact, show one and the same pattern of century Glagolitic protograph, preserved mentaries to the Greek text (c). Version c spelling development: high variability at Ohrid and probably destroyed when is derived from an early copy of b; ver- (heterography) on the first 10-20 folia, af- the city was stormed by Hayruddin Pasha sions a and b are largely independent even ter which individual preferences become in 1395. though over half of their text is identical. entrenched (idiography). And over the Isn’t it stunning to note that the com- They variously retain West–Slavisms entire length of the text they show similar prehensive and unprejudiced study pre- (e.g., ost’n’ ‘sting,’ tryzna ‘arena’) and ar- errors in marking jotation of vowels and cisely of run-of-the-mill texts (my apolo- chaisms (e.g., NOM–ACC forms for mascu- palatalisation of consonants, as well as a gies to St. John Climacus, I refer only to line animate nouns, j–participles for i– high incidence of confusion of jers (with the stability of the text and the volume of conjugation verbs, 3rd person impera- full vowels, too) as well as nasal vowels. its tradition) can contribute to the history tives), which suggest that the original These traits (their patterns of distribution of Slavonic texts an insight so fundamen- translation may have been made prior to strictly individual), in fact, prove that all tal that our teachers failed to notice it? 886. Version a is attested before 899, when 17 copies are independent transcriptions it was copy edited for an ad hoc homiliary of three Glagolitic exemplars, two of them cum menologium for the Holy Week of most probably preserved at the monas- Editor’s Note: We take this opportunity to that year (later excerpted in the Codex tery itself. And the fact that some of the congratulate William on the occasion of his 70th birthday (May 26) and wish him con- Suprasliensis); version b is attested be- younger copies show more South Slavic tinuing health, happiness, productive schol- fore 927, when it was used to fill five slots spellings than others testifies to no more arship, and success. His contributions to the in the Slavonic Izbornik of Tsar Symeon. than a shift in scribal practice, away from HRL and RCMSS are many, constant, and Over the past few months, I have been cumbersome transcription towards more most sincerely appreciated. Indeed, he has been reading the 17 copies (1334 – c. 1620) of economical transliteration (which also a friend to us for more than 30 years. 6 Cyrillic Manuscript Heritage June 2012

RCMSS & HRL News Notes:

Orthodox Cathedral in Chicago, who is also Director of Institute a Teaching Fellow at Marquette Univer- of Musicology Visits sity (Wisconsin). As an Assistant Lec- turer in Canon Law at the St. Sava School the HRL of Theology, Father Vasilije specializes in Patristics and Church History of the first millennium of Christianity. In addition to his parish duties and teaching, he also suc- Photo by Helene Senecal cessfully defended his dissertation on the “Christology of Theodoret of Cyrus” at Marquette. Danica wanted to be in Chicago for Photo by Helene Senecal the birth and baptism of her granddaugh- ter, Mila, who was born February 22. She was also able to visit her other daughter Marija, currently a post-doctoral fellow Tania Ivanova-Sullivan of the Wirth Institute at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. nomena in their first language, Russian, which reflect incomplete acquisition or L1 attrition. OSU was the second stop of her data Former HRL GRA collection trip to several American col- Speaker at Slavic leges – she also visited Harvard Univer- sity, UCLA, and University of Washing- Danica Petrovi‹ in the Jack and Jan Linguistics Forum ton where she briefly reunited with Bojan Creighton Special Collections Reading Room Beli‹ (alumnus of OSU Slavic Dept. and We were delighted to welcome back MSSI 1999, currently at the Slavic De- Danica Petrovi‹ (Director, Institute of Tania Ivanova-Sullivan, former Hilandar partment at UW). She is heading to St. Musicology, Serbian Academy of Sci- GRA and Ohio State alumna, who was in- Petersburg in May where she will be test- ences and Arts) first conducted research vited to talk about her current research ing her control group of Russian mono- in the HRL in 1988. That was her last visit at the Slavic Linguistics Forum, a venue linguals. until this mid-May, when she came for a run by graduate students in the Slavic De- Tania was excited to visit with former few days to see the renovated Thompson partment, on April 5, 2012. Her talk coin- professors and colleagues and was pleas- Library and HRL and to study one of the cided with the 10th anniversary of the Fo- antly surprised to see the new library, microfilms of a Hilandar Monastery mu- rum, which she and Andrea Sims (Assis- which was still under construction when sic manuscript, a Greek and Church Slavic tant Professor of Slavic Linguistics at OSU) she left Columbus in 2007. She compli- Anthologion containing hymnographic co-founded in 2002 while still in graduate mented the new home of the HRL although texts and musical notation that dates to school. After the talk, Tania met with gra- she also felt a bit nostalgic about the old the end of the 18th century. She shared duate students to discuss research and “Hilandar Room.” with us her recent publication, “Church job opportunities for Slavic graduates in Currently, Tania is Assistant Profes- Musicians in Mediaeval Serbia,” in Psal- the United States. sor of Russian at the University of New tike: Neue Studien zur Byzantinischen Dr. Ivanova-Sullivan received a large Mexico where she is in charge of the Rus- Musik: Festschrift für Gerda Wolfram, ed- research grant from her home university sian program in the Department of For- ited by Nina-Maria von Wanek, 265-284 to allow her to travel and gather informa- eign Languages and Literatures. She en- (Wien: Praesens Verlag, 2011). tion for her research project. She is work- joys teaching Russian language and gen- The purpose of Dr. Petrovi‹’s visit to ing on a monograph about early Russian- eral linguistics to a diverse multi-cultural the United States was primarily to spend English bilinguals, i.e., “heritage speak- student population. Her courses range time with and assist her daughter, Jelena, ers.” These second-generation immigrants from small seminars for Russian majors grandson Petar, and son-in-law Father were either born in the US to Russian- to classes with enrollments of as many as Vasilije Vrani‹, pastor of the Northern speaking parents or came over before the 130 students that are part of the Core Parish of the Holy Resurrection Serbian age of 10. She is studying interface phe- Curriculum. June 2012 Cyrillic Manuscript Heritage 7

years and the venue – in the reading room RCMSS/HRL News Notes, continued society of academics committed to the pro- on the 11th floor of the Thompson Library motion of Slovene studies in the United – made for a stunning but also intimate States and Canada, the Society for Slovene setting for this important annual event.” C. Vakareliyska Studies is today an internationally recog- Speaker at Annual nized association of scholars with mem- bers in many countries of the world, dedi- Kenneth E. Naylor cated to investigating Slovene culture. See: RCMSS/HRL Home “Society for Slovene Studies Fact Sheet Memorial Lecture 2011,” www.slovenestudies.com/misc/ to Society for Slovene SSS_factsheet.pdf (accessed May 14, 2012). Studies Archives The HRL and RCMSS are pleased to MSSI Alumna announce that we have become the home of the Archives of the Society for Slovene Presents Paper at Studies. Largely the result of discussions Photo by Helene Senecal with Carole Rogel, Associate Professor Kent State Conference Emerita of Balkan and East European His- tory at Ohio State and a past founding mem- ber, president, and treasurer of the Society, these important historical records will be preserved and made accessible to future generations. Dr. Vakareliyska discusses The Society was founded in 1973 and

Medieval Slavic Menologies maintains a journal, Slovene Studies: Jour- Photo by Helene Senecal nal of the Society for Slovene Studies as Cynthia Vakareliyska, Professor of well as a newsletter. The archival materials Linguistics at the University of Oregon, largely contain files of past officers of the was invited to OSU at the end of April to Society, including, Toussaint Hoccevarˇ , Ca- present both the 15th Annual Kenneth E. role Rogel, Henry R. Cooper, Tom Priestly, Naylor Memorial Lecture and a public lec- John K. Cox, and Metod M. Milaccˇ. Some ture on Medieval Slavic menologies. The Tatiana Nikolova-Houston donates other early materials are now preserved in original artwork to Predrag Matejic latter, hosted in the Thompson Library Slovenia. during her HRL visit and sponsored in part by the HRL and The Society for Slovene Studies (SSS) RCMSS, included a demonstration of her is a scholarly non-profit organization Tatiana Nikolova-Houston, supported online computer collation of medieval Sla- dedicated to fostering closer communica- in part by a small grant from the RCMSS vic, Greek and Latin calendars of saints, tion among scholars interested in Slovene Hilandar Endowment Fund, presented a based on the listings of saints from over studies, to promoting the dissemination of paper at the second Information and Reli- 100 manuscripts, including data from scholarly information on Slovene studies gion Conference held at Kent State Uni- manuscripts on microform in the HRL. Dr. through the organization of meetings and versity (Kent, Ohio) on May 18-19, 2012. Vakareliyska has often used the resources conferences, and to preparing scholarly This year’s theme was Preservation and of the HRL in the past, see CMH 7 (2000): works for publication. Founded ... as a Access: Facilitating Research in Informa- 4, and 25 (2009): 4. tion and Religion. Dr. Nikolova-Houston’s The Naylor Memorial Lecture series paper entitled “Increasing the Visibility of was created by Brian D. Joseph (OSU Slavic Medieval Manuscripts” describes Linguistics), who has held the Kenneth how the Soviet bloc’s collapse removed E. Naylor Professorship of South Slavic many political obstacles to Slavic and Byz- Linguistics since its inception. Dr. Vakare- antine manuscript study, but sometimes liyska shared her current research, “Action left manuscript libraries without sufficient Heroes: The English NN Construction financial resources – to the extent that across the South Slavic Languages.” Dr. Photo by Helene Senecal even opening their doors and providing Joseph noted that “It was a nice demon- access was a problem. Her paper detailed stration of both the local and the more the struggle to preserve and publish im- general ways in which the careful study ages from the 1,500 medieval manuscripts of a South Slavic language can enrich our and early printed books now held in the understanding of how Slavic languages Historical and Church Institute in Sofia, develop and are patterned. This year’s lec- Bulgaria. ture was one of the best attended in recent Carole Rogel reviews donated materials continued on page 8 8 Cyrillic Manuscript Heritage June 2012

Guide to Upcoming Medieval and Slavic RCMSS/HRL News Notes, continued from page 7 Workshops, Conferences and Exhibits Tatiana is an MSSI 2001 alumna. It was at the MSSI that she coupled her passion Encyclopaedia Slavica Sanctorum Fifth Biennial Conference for the Slavic medieval past with a focused International Conference March 8-9, 2013 study and better awareness of the rich “Saints and Holy Places in the Balkans” Georgetown University, Slavic manuscript culture of the past. She June 14-16, 2012, Sofia, Bulgaria Washington, DC became a passionate spokesperson and http://www.eslavsanct.net/ http://otsamerica.org/node/213 has delivered papers in the US and abroad home.php?text=Conferences&lang=bg on the Slavic Cyrillic manuscript heritage, Midwest Slavic Conference its importance, and how it has personally 19th International Medieval Congress Late March/early April, 2013 July 9-12, 2012, University of Leeds, OSU Center for Slavic and East inspired her. Leeds, England European Studies, Columbus, OH Tatiana completed her MLIS and PhD http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/ http://slaviccenter.osu.edu/ in 2008 from the University of Texas at Aus- tin. She continues to do research and dedi- Lincoln College Summer School of The Medieval Academy of America cates much of her time to original artwork, Greek Palaeography Annual Meeting, “Regions and inspired by manuscript illuminations. August 13-18, 2012, Oxford, England Regional Identity in the Middle Ages” Please visit her site Sacred Illuminations http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/csb/Lincoln April 4-6, 2013, University of Tennes- www.sacredilluminations.webs.com for College Summer School of Greek see, Knoxville, TN further information. Palaeography.pdf http://www.medievalacademy.org/pdf/ Taking the opportunity to also visit the CFP2013.pdf 250th Anniversary of Paisii Hilendarec’s HRL while in Ohio, she presented to Dr. Istoriia Slaveno-Bolgarskaia International Congress on Medieval Predrag Matejic one of her original ink and September 20-21, 2012, Studies, May 9-12, 2013, Western gold acrylic with semi-precious stone (her Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI preferred medium) paintings (“illumina- http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/ tions”), a work titled “In the Beginning: Slavic Cognitive Linguistics congress/ Glagolitic-Cyrillic Alphabets.” She added September 27-29, 2012, Zagreb, Croatia that she “created this drawing in 2010 in http://www.hfiloloskod.hr Medieval Slavic Summer Institute Bulgaria and wanted to dedicate it to the Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Hilandar Research Library and her mentor, 39th Saint Louis Conference on Studies (RCMSS) Professor Predrag Matejic.” Manuscript Studies June 24-July 19, 2013 October 12-13, 2012, St. Louis, Missouri OSU, Columbus, Ohio http://libraries.slu.edu/ https://library.osu.edu/find/collections/ special_collections/stl_conf_manu hilandar-research-library RCMSS Advisory Byzantine Studies Conference (BSC) 6th International Hilandar Conference November 1-4, 2012, Brookline, MA July 19-21, 2013, OSU, Columbus, Ohio Council Meets http://www.bsana.net/conference/ https://library.osu.edu/find/collections/ A meeting of the RCMSS Advisory index.html hilandar-research-library Council was held on April 26, 2012. The Council meets to advise RCMSS in its pro- Association for Slavic, East European, XV International Congress of Slavists and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) motion of medieval and early modern Slavic August 27-28, 2013, Minsk, Belarus manuscripts and manuscript culture, pri- 44th Annual Convention, November http://xvcongress.iml.basnet.by/ 15-18, 2012, New Orleans, Louisiana marily of the Cyrillic tradition. Members of the Advisory Council are David Birn- http://aseees.org/convention.html Institute of Musicology, SANU, and British Association for Slavonic and baum (Pittsburgh, Slavic Chair), Nicholas World Congress of Bulgarian Studies East European Studies (BASEES) Breyfogle (OSU History), Lisa Carter To be announced, 2013, Study Group for Russian and (OSU Libraries), Dan Collins (Advisory Bucharest, Romania Eastern European Music Council Chair, OSU Slavic), Helena Goscilo “Beyond the East-West Divide: (OSU Slavic Chair), Richard Firth Green American Association of Teachers of Rethinking Balkan Music’s (OSU, CMRS Director), Yana Hashamova Slavic and East European Languages Poles of Attraction” (OSU, CSEES Director), M.A. Johnson (AATSEEL) September 27-29. 2013, , Serbia (OSU, HRL Associate Curator), Predrag January 3-6, 2013, Boston, MA http://goldenpages.jpehs.co.uk/2012/ http://www.aatseel.org/program/ Matejic (OSU, HRL Curator and RCMSS 03/05/beyond-the-east-west-divide- Director), Myroslava Mudrak (OSU His- rethinking-balkan-musics-poles-of- Association for the Study of Eastern attraction/ tory of Art), and Jennifer Spock (Eastern Christian History and Culture (ASEC) Kentucky, History). June 2012 Cyrillic Manuscript Heritage 9

Codex Suprasliensis, continued from page 3 A pilot model of an electronic edition of a small part of the Codex Suprasliensis with a search program was developed in 2008 at the Uni- versity of Pittsburgh (http://paul.obdurodon.org). This electronic edi- tion of the Life of Paul the Simple was based on a corrected version of the text published by Iordan Zaimov and Mario Capaldo, accompanied by parallel Greek text, a new English translation, detailed linguistic commen- tary, and photographic facsimiles. A separate module in the electronic edition of Codex Suprasliensis will be added with an annotated glossary created as a result of the annotated corpus. It will be annotated manually, but with the assistance of the morpho- logical guesser already developed by the project Pragmatic Resources in Old Indo-European Languages (PROIEL) and trained for Old Church Slavonic morphology on the Codex Marianus. Thus, the Codex Supra- sliensis will be annotated for morphology, syntax, and other features in the PROIEL annotation interface, and the information will be exported in Screen shot of the UNESCO-funded “Codex Suprasliensis” website, http://csup.ilit.bas.bg/ XML for incorporation into the projected electronic edition. PROIEL aims at developing morphosyntactic means for the annotation of and research into the information structure in Ancient and Hellenistic Greek, Latin, Gothic, Classical Armenian, and Old Church Slavonic, and has developed a statistical morphological guesser and a semi-manual syntactic annotation tool supported by a set of morphology- based rules. An anthology with the proceedings from an international con- ference held in Sofia, Bulgaria, in August 2011, is now available: Re- discovery: Bulgarian Codex Suprasliensis of 10th Century (Sofia: Iztok-Zapad, 2012). Scholars from 12 countries participated in the in- ternational conference and an exhibition about CS was presented very successfully in Sofia, at the Vatican, in Warsaw, and in Ljubljana. Con- tributions of the project from the textological and linguistic view- points include: · New facts were discovered concerning the history of Greek sources. Researcher Aleksandr Karnachov of St. Petersburg presented a previously unknown archive of Sergei Severia- nov with extremely important data about Greek manuscripts. The collection is in the depository of the Library of the Rus- sian Academy of Sciences; it was untouched for 100 years Two-volume edition of the text of the SupraÑl or and was uncovered accidentally. It will be published in full. Retkov Miscellany, edited by Iordan Zaimov and · Three copies of the Codex Suprasliensis, which have not Mario Capaldo (1982-1983) received the attention of scholars in the past decades, were investigated in detail: Kievan full copy No. 117, 16th cent. (according to Rudolf Aitzetmüller, who published a portion, it fills in texts from missing folia in CS); St. Petersburg full copy No. 596, Menologion for March, 15th cent.; and Vilnius copy No. Slav. 257, from the first quarter of the 16th cent., which contains sixteen homilies of St. John Chrysostom. · The project threw new light on the sources of Codex Suprasliensis, especially of the South Slavic tradition; for example, three texts (the Life of Gregory the Great, the Tale of the Taxiotes the Soldier, and the Life of Paul the Simple) have been found in a very interesting manuscript of the 14th cent., Voskresenskii 115, State Historical Museum in Moscow, which contains also texts known from the so-called Kniazhii izbornik (archetype of Izbornik of 1076) and sermons attributed to Peturˇ Chernorizets. · New information was completed concerning the history of the manuscript in Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, and Russia.

The new digital edition will be used both in teaching in the field of Slavic studies and by all who are interested in the history of Bulgaria, the Byzantine Commonwealth, the Balkans, Slavia Orthodoxa, and manuscript studies.

*Editor’s Note: See the article by Rodney Dennis, curator of manuscripts at the Harvard College Library from 1965-1992, “Mr. Vlasov Meets the Ham King,” Harvard Ornamental letter “N” from the Magazine (Mar-Apr 1996): 40-45, for an account of the history of Codex Suprasliensis Ljubljana portion of CS in the United States and how this portion of the codex was returned to Warsaw. 10 Cyrillic Manuscript Heritage June 2012

Director’s Desk, continued from page 2 own sincere slova of appreciation to Kijuk was one of the best speakers on RCMSS and HRL, to their director, Predrag . He also possessed a We sincerely congratulate William R. Matejic, and to his delightful and highly remarkable gift for language: I think it came Veder, Johannes G. van der Tak, and competent staff, Lyubomira Parpulova from the fact that he actually had some- Susana Torres Prieto-Hay, editors of the Gribble, Helene Senecal, and Peter De- thing to say. He knew how to speak and monumental three-volume (and circa 2,000 Simone, who did everything possible to he had an incredible amount of informa- pages!) edition The Scete Paterikon (Pe- assure that my work was both successful tion that charmed his guests and listen- gasus Oost-Europese Studies 12-13-14), and productive. ers. He was a brilliant orator, in part be- 2012. Volume 1: The Scete Paterikon. In- cause he was a devotee of truth and in Editor’s Note: Svetlina Nikolova is the troduction and Indices, 494 pp.; Volume part because he knew how to convey to former Director of the Cyrillo-Methodian others the hidden meanings and nuances 2: Patericon Sceticum. Greek Text, Latin Research Centre of the Bulgarian Acad- of the human condition. Kijuk was an im- Translations and English Translation of emy of Sciences and continues as Editor- the Slavonic Textus Receptus, 724 pp.; in-chief of the Center’s highly respected passioned defender of the truth and firm Volume 3: Skitskii Paterik Slavyanskii journal, Palaeobulgarica. Professor champion of the imprisoned and the per- perevod v prinyatom tekste i v rekonstruk- Nikolova’s previous research trip to the secuted. His support of just causes also tsii glagolicheskogo arkhetipa, 750 pp. HRL took place for three weeks in the fall led to personal difficulties, including the See the next issue of CMH for more about of 2003: please see CMH 14 (2003): 5, and loss of a position. V. Dimitrijevi‹ has stated that Kijuk the history of this text and its significance. a detailed description of her research in CMH 15 (2004): 6. always thought in terms of what his con- The HRL and RCMSS are dependent science dictated. He was a founder of the on the good will and good work of other “Fund of Truth” in Belgrade, of “ units at Ohio State. We will certainly miss in the World Parliament” in Heidelberg, Lance Erikson and his dedicated work as † In Memoriam: of the “Center for Christian Studies” in Associate Director of the Center for Slavic ‹ Belgrade, the “Association of Serbian and East European Studies (CSEES) at Predrag Dragi Kijuk National Consciousness,” and he initiated Ohio State. In turn, we now welcome Eileen Witness of Historical and was one of the signatories of the dec- Kunkler as the new Assosciate Director Memory laration of the famous “Letter on the Ser- of the Center. Eileen graduated with a dual bian Language.” He edited both the Li- MA in CSEES and the John Glenn School By Miroljub Jokovi‹ brary of Serbian Diaspora and the Serbian of Public Affairs at Ohio State, specializ- Family Library. For many years he edited ing in Russian politics and program evalu- All for whom Serbian national culture, Serbian Literary Magazine, and together ation. an Orthodox understanding, and a deep we edited the Literary Newspaper. Finally, what should be a happy note respect and appreciation of history and He also wrote many books, studies and for researchers: the St. Peterburg Ortho- culture are dear, were affected by the news essays. I would mention a few achieve- dox Seminary has digitized all issues of the of the passing of Predrag Dragi‹ Kijuk. ments that have long been his personal very important Russian Orthodox journal His death at age 67 in St. Sava Hospital trademark and emblematic in Serbian lit- Khristianskoe Chtenie and made it openly in Belgrade extinguished one of the bright- erature: The Demons Among Us, Medieval accessible: http://www.spbda.ru/lib/ est figures of recent times. He exemplified and Renaissance Serbian Poetry 1200- view/Hristianskoe_chtenie.html. This url greatness as a writer, philosopher, his- 1700, Story of Flight, The Battle of Kosovo (with Dušan T. Batakovi‹), and Tempter will give access to all volumes from 1868- torian, original thinker, and scholar of the medieval as well as of Dostoevsky. He was Redeemer, Going to the Game, Catena 1917, and again as of 2009 (to 2011 at the Mundi I-II, Literature and Evil, The Lega- moment). This very rare, often incorrectly one of the best and the brightest of Serbs I have ever known. cy Little, Bestiarium Humanum, Atlanto- cited journal has frustrated librarians and cracy as a Jesuit Ideal, Essays in Homi- scholars alike. We appreciate the efforts Serbian culture has lost one of its in- tellectual cornerstones, a creative and cu- letics, Invasion of the New Barbarians, of the Seminary to make it openly acces- rious intellect fascinated by poetry, phi- and Europe against Europe. sible, searchable by year or author, and losophy, Christianity, classical Serbian He has now gone, I think, to a better providing the researcher an immediate pdf and Slovenian literature, European civili- world than the one in which we live, a world of the desired article. zation, as well as the cultural interaction in which he was a pariah to some, a gentle and influences on Serbian culture in reli- but bold hero to others. We thank him for gion, philosophy, or art. Predrag Dragi‹ his original and brilliant thought, for his HRL Journal, continued from page 4 Kijuk was an original and unique thinker. passion, and for his friendship. May his It is no exaggeration to say that he memory be eternal…. me, the Hilandar Research Library will al- was a walking encyclopedia and also one ‹ ways be associated with images of a luxu- of the bravest Serbian intellectuals of the Editor’s Note: Predrag Dragi Kijuk was a participant in the 5th International Hilan- riant bouquet of slova (sermons, words) late-20th and early-21st century. Any form of thought repression was anathema to dar Conference in Raška (2002), where he – the sermons of Ioan Exarch of Bulgaria him. He passionately believed in freedom gave a presentation related to a famous – in the context of the warm words and and artistic expression, at times even re- fresco that is in Hilandar Monastery: support of the people who work there. This belliously. Often, his was the voice in the “Three-Faced Christ and the Symbolism is why I now offer – in lieu of flowers – my wilderness. of Numbers.” June 2012 Cyrillic Manuscript Heritage 11

Michael Malyak Contributions West Seneca, New York Gifts In Kind To The Vasa Mihailovich Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Stamford, Connecticut Goran Blagoev Hilandar Margaret Dimitrova Institute of Literature (BAS) Endowment Fund George and Geraldine Ostich Klimentina Ivanova Svetlana Kuiumdzhieva With sincerest appreciation the HRL and Barberton, Ohio Iavor Miltenov RCMSS acknowledge the following individu- Anissava Miltenova als for their generous support: Mitzy and Milenko Radojevich Svetlina Nikolova Woodhaven, Michigan BULGARIA Lorraine Netreti‹ Abraham Centre d’Études Slaves Nick and Frances Abingdon, Virginia FRANCE Roslovic Family Foundation Columbus, Ohio Tinatin Chronz Sally Anne Arsenovich GERMANY Buchanan, Michigan Helene Senecal Evelina Mineva Dublin, Ohio GREECE Fr. Victor and Svetlana Marietta Vujicsics Boldewskul Jennifer Spock West Roxbury, Massachusetts HUNGARY “In Memory of Archimandrite Joasaph Richmond, Kentucky (Francis J. McLellan)” Tatiana G. Popova Ray Radoslav Suput Bulat Rakhimzianov RUSSIA Vida Matejic Bowen Columbus, Ohio Reynoldsburg, Ohio Danica Petrovi‹ Catherine E. Vrugitz SERBIA Milosh S. Bozanich Powell, Ohio Moschos Morfakidis Filactós St. Cloud, Minnesota Centro de Estudios Bizantinos, Marie Vuich Neogriegos y Chipriotas, Granada SPAIN Milica Matejic Brust Monroe, Michigan Matching Fund: Jasminka de Pouzols de Saint-Phar SWITZERLAND Battelle Memorial Institute Mirjana Vujnovich Columbus, Ohio Orinda, California William C. Brumfield Daniel E. Collins Daniel Enright Collins Michael R. Zunich Tom Dykstra Columbus, Ohio David Goldfrank Lorain, Ohio Charles E. Gribble Priscilla Hunt Lyubomira and Charles Gribble Keenan Institute/Woodrow Wilson Powell, Ohio Center Contributions to Allen M. Johnson M. A. Johnson David Kos Hilandar’s Friends of Gregory Jusdanis Pickerington, Ohio V. Rev. Dr. Mateja Matejic Predrag Matejic The Library Fund Robert Mathiesen Paul Gordon Larick Metod Milaˇc Shaker Heights, Ohio Jacqueline N. Baishanski Tatiana Nikolova-Houston Columbus, Ohio Carole Rogel Matthew P. Romaniello Sharon G. (Fullerton) Maliska Jenn Spock Susan Hatten/Cathy Hatten Fort Lauderdale, Florida Bosiljka Stevanovi‹ Columbus, Ohio Nadja Tesi‹ Isolde Thyret Predrag Matejic Carole Rogel Ljubica Todorovi‹ Dublin, Ohio Columbus, Ohio UNITED STATES Hilandar Research Library Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies The Ohio State University 119 Thompson Library 1858 Neil Avenue Mall Columbus, OH 43210-1286

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