Publisher: Кирило-Методиевски научен център при Българска академия на науките

PALAEOBULGARICA

PALAEOBULGARICA / СТАРОБЪЛГАРИСТИКА

Frequency: 4 issues / Country: Bulgaria

The PALAEOBULGARICA Journal is the only specialized periodical in the world dedicated to the problems connected with the oldest Slavonic culture – the Old Bulgarian. It publishes research and scientific communications in the field of Bulgarian medieval culture from the creation of the Slav alphabet in the middle of the 9th c. by Sts Cyril and Methodius on the basis of the dialect of the Bulgarian Slavs in the Salonica region up to the epoch of the Bulgarian National Revival (18th c.). The problems of the Bulgarian medieval culture in its various aspects – language, literature, history, arts, etc. re associated in the Journal closely with the cultural development of the other Slav countries during the Middle Ages (Russia, Serbia, Great Moravia, Medieval Poland), of the neighboring Balkan states, and also with the spiritual and cultural phenomena and processes in all Medieval Europe. Special accent is put on the links of the Orthodox Slavic World with Byzantium. Characteristic of the Journal is its interdisciplinary approach. Research in the sphere of all the humanities is published: linguistics, philology, literary history, political history, theology, the arts, archeology, etc. Only original pieces of scholarly research in the fields under review are published, reporting hitherto unknown facts, new methods of research are elaborated, new theoretical generalizations are made. Black-end-white illustrations are also published. Articles by scholars from all parts of the world are brought out in Bulgarian, English, French, German and Russian, the articles in Bulgarian and Russian being accompanied by summaries in English and those in German, English and French have summaries in Bulgarian. The editorial board of PALAEOBULGARICA is made up of eight scholars from Bulgaria, Germany and USA.

Cyrillo-Methodian Studies

Кирило-Методиевски студии

Frequency: 1 issues / Country: Bulgaria

Cyrillo-Methodian Studies is a series dedicated to the entire complex of these studies. It is the only series in the world that is specialized in the field of Cyrillo-Methodian problems. In it are included monographs, studies and articles dedicated to the life, public literary activity of Sts Cyril and Methodius, the Old Bulgarian Language, the Slavonic, Greek and Latin sources on the life and work of the Thessalonian Brothers, the Old Bulgarian culture of the 9th-11th с., the Cyrillo-Methodian traditions during the Middle Ages, the National Revival up to this day, and the Cyrillo-Methodian heritage outside Bulgaria. Researches by Bulgarian and foreign scholars are published in Bulgarian, in all Slavonic languages and also in English, German and French. The authors of studies arе from Austria, Belgium, Croatia,the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Macedonia, the Nitherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, USA.

The Orthography of the Psalter of Tsar Ivan Alexander (Ms 2 of the Scientific Archive of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) (= Cyrillo-Methodian Studies. 34)

Правописът на псалтира на цар Йоан Александър (ръкопис 2 от Научния архив на БАН) (= Кирило-Методиевски студии. Кн. 34)

Author(s): Tsvetomira Danova / Language(s): Bulgarian

Keywords: Sofia Psalter (Pesnivets); MS NA-BAN 2; Tsar Ivan Alexander; Orthography

The monograph is dedicated to the orthographic features of the Sofia commentated Psalter from 1337 (MS NA-BAN 2), also known as the Psalter of Tsar Ivan Alexander. The aim is to describe the orthographic practices of each identified scribe in as much detail as possible and compare the general and specific characteristics of the different orthographic types they followed.A detailed analysis has been conducted on the following graphemes and allographs used by the copyists: е (є), ꙃ (ꙅ, ѕ),  (і, ї), о (ѻ, ѡ, ꙩ, ) ѹ (, ), ъ, ь, ы, ѫ, ѭ, ѧ (ꙙ), ѩ (ꙝ), ѣ, ꙗ, , ѯ, ҁ, ѳ, у/ѵ, ѱ. The study also examines the use of the epenthetic l, supralinear signs, and the orthography of Greek loanwords. Observations on the orthography of the manuscript are based on a comprehensive excerpting of material according to the specified criteria, including from the two folios of the codex that are part of P. I. Shchukin’s collec­tion in the State Historical Museum in Moscow (GIM, Shchukin 3). In four chapters, the orthographic characteristics of each of the four scribes involved in the creation of the manuscript are presented sequentially and in detail. The orthographic features of a small excerpt identified with a fifth handwriting are also examined separately. Three appendices illustrate the use and distribution of selected graphemes and allographs in the codex, as well as the orthography of personal and geographical names in an Old Bul­garian-Greek index with lemmatization and in two lists: Old Bulgarian-Greek and Greek-Old Bulgarian. The present study reveals four orthographic systems that combine characteristics typ­ical of the period with individual orthographic habits. Many orthographic rules are not consistently applied, exhibit a non-mandatory nature, and are in the process of develop­ment and codification, which corresponds to the pre-Euthymian period during which the manuscript was created (1337). Despite the collective effort in the creation of the codex, there is no unified or comprehensive orthographic concept; each scribe retains and applies their individual training and background during the process. This provides additional in­sight into the working practices in literary centers during the first half of the 14th centu­ry and contributes to a clearer understanding of the different types of Middle Bulgarian orthography, particularly those associated with pre-Euthymian orthographic models and manuscripts written for or commissioned by Tsar Ivan Alexander.