Collating Greek and Slavic Apostolos Manuscripts
Collating Greek and Slavic Apostolos Manuscripts

Summary/Abstract: The starting point of the work on the Old Slavic Apostolos was the discovery of two previously unknown Apostolos manuscripts: the Apostolus Amstelodamensis1 (16th century) and trie Karakalskl ApostolP (12/13th century). Both contain the full Apostolos text; the latter figures prominently among the aerly extant Apostolos MSS, the former stands near the end of the Slavic Apostolos manuscript tradition. The work on these two manuscripts developed into a combined effort to lay the groundwork for a critical edition of the Old Slavic Apostolos. This article presents some of the results of a pilot collation project. It concentrates on the practical problems of collating Slavic Apostolos manuscripts. To test our research tools and concepts we selected six pericopes of which we made collations with the help of the computer program Collate. Besides twenty-one Slavic MSS, eleven Greek MSS from ML Athos were used in this pilot project. This article presents a technical description of our collation method followed by some preliminary results of our pilot project. The examples are taken from our collation-files and from files in which the Greek and the Slavonic with their respective variant readings are integrated. These last files were specially created for the six pericopes of our project.

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