За документалната основа на филологическата старобългаристика и възможностите на българо-американското сътрудничество
On the Documentary Basis for Philological Old Bulgarian Studies and Opportunities for Bulgarian-American Cooperation

Summary/Abstract: The article proposes a new solution to a central problem in the area of Old Bulgarian studies: the demand for comprehensive information on all extant medieval manuscripts of Bulgarian provenance as well as of manuscripts preserved in the various redactions of Church Slavonic (Bulgarian, Serbian, Russian, Wallachian, Moldavian). To this end catalogues with brief descriptions of all Slavonic manuscripts from the 10th to 19th с. should be prepared. They should cover all manuscripts of Bulgarian origin and all manuscripts containing texts of Bulgarian medieval literature in manuscripts of other redactions. Particularly needed in this respect are catalogues of the manuscript collections in Eastern and South Eastern Europe (especially in the countries of the former Soviet Union, in Serbia and Rumania). The article reports on the work carried out in this area by the Cyrillo-Methodian Research Centre of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (preparation of catalogues of the collection of A. Khludov in the State History Museum in Moscow, the collection of V. Grigorovich at the Odessa State Library of Science and the collection of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences). The author proposes a basic structure of essential data that should be incorporated in future descriptions of manuscripts. Collections to be described in this framework include those of the Museum of the Serbian Orthodox Church and of the Serbian Patriarchy in Belgrade. It is emphasised in the article that the completion of such descriptions is of paramount importance for the progress of textological studies and for modernization of the methods applied.

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