{"title":"From Electronic Publication of a Medieval Manuscript to Big Data, or What Artificial Intelligence Knows about the Beginning of Slavic Books","authors":"Victor Baranov","doi":"10.59076/2603-2899.2023.3.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59076/2603-2899.2023.3.10","url":null,"abstract":"The article describes the preparation of machine-readable linguistic resources based on medieval Slavic written monuments, as well as their use in systems for automated and automatic processing of large text data. The history of this area of applied Paleoslavistics is briefly shown on the example of several projects for the creation of electronic publications, collections and corpora of Slavic manuscripts. Particular attention is paid to the stages of development and the material of the Manuscript historical corpus (mansucripts.ru), which contains marked-up transliterations of Glagolitic and transcriptions of Cyrillic manuscripts of the 10th–15th centuries, as well as specialized tools for processing, demonstrating and analyzing non-standard graphic and spelling features and structure of texts. The labor-intensive and complex process of preparing copies of manuscripts and marking them up, unfortunately, is still the only way to convert a graphic image into a machine-readable form. It is noted that the tagged collections created on the basis of Slavic manuscripts make it possible to use the latter both for creating models for recognizing manuscripts in existing HTR systems and for developing new specialized tools for recognizing and analyzing Slavic manuscript heritage.","PeriodicalId":52013,"journal":{"name":"Palaeobulgarica-Starobalgaristika","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135367511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Some Unknown Copies of the Prologue Lives from the Turnovo Cycle in Romanian Manuscripts","authors":"Georgi Petkov","doi":"10.59076/2603-2899.2023.3.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59076/2603-2899.2023.3.07","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this article is to trace the spread of the Prologue texts from the Turnovo cycle in six Romanian manuscripts from 15th–17th centuries containing Prologue in Verse. Four of them are from the collection of Dragomirna Monastery and two are kept in the library of the Romanian Academy of Sciences. Brief archeographical data on these manuscripts are given. Finally, the texts of the Prologue lives of St Petka Tarnovska, St Ivan Rilski, St Hilarion Maglenski and St Michael the Warrior are published. The comparison of the text of Prologue lives in the studied Romanian manuscripts with the text of the Turnovo manuscripts shows that they are very close to each other. The spread of Prologue texts from the Turnovo cycle in the Romanian literary tradition after the end of the 14th century is an important proof of the close spiritual and literary relations between the Bulgarian literary centers and the Romanian principalities.","PeriodicalId":52013,"journal":{"name":"Palaeobulgarica-Starobalgaristika","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135367710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Odessa Damaskin № 39 (65) in the Bulgarian Linguistic and Literary Tradition","authors":"Tatyana Braga","doi":"10.59076/2603-2899.2023.2.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59076/2603-2899.2023.2.04","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents the results of the de visu study on the Odessa Modern Bulgarian damaskin №. 39 (65), dating from the 18th century. The manuscript is part of a collection of manuscripts gathered by the slavist Viktor Grigorovich. So far, this manuscript has not been the object of investigation, being currently stored in a book depository outside Bulgaria, which further complicates its research. The present work aims to present in detail the paleographical, codicological and some lexical features of this little-studied manuscript. The manuscript was assigned by E. I. Deminа to the IV Early Modern Bulgarian type: this type is particularly important because it actually represents the link between the damaskins of the 17th and the 18th century. It also presents new translations of texts by Greek authors and different textual versions of some homilies which were independently derived from the archaic Sredna-Gora translation. The analysis of the specific linguistic characteristics proves that this manuscript was written in the Eastern Bulgarian area.","PeriodicalId":52013,"journal":{"name":"Palaeobulgarica-Starobalgaristika","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41658428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Some Observations on the Composition of the Medieval Slavonic Translation of the Acts of Paul and Thecla","authors":"Dariya Syroyid","doi":"10.59076/2603-2899.2023.2.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59076/2603-2899.2023.2.06","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines the Old Church Slavonic translation of the apocryphal Acts of Paul and Thecla with a focus on the oldest extant manuscript. Only a fragment of the manuscript has survived, on the end and the miracles. The article relies on the original Greek text and later Slavonic manuscripts for comparison.","PeriodicalId":52013,"journal":{"name":"Palaeobulgarica-Starobalgaristika","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48296709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A New Catalogue of the Greek Manuscripts in the National Library in Sofia, Bulgaria","authors":"Aneta Dimitrova","doi":"10.59076/2603-2899.2023.2.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59076/2603-2899.2023.2.09","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52013,"journal":{"name":"Palaeobulgarica-Starobalgaristika","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45269824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"For Competition of ⰶⰹⰲⱁⱅⱏ and ⰶⰻⰸⱀⱐ in Old Church Slavonic Gospel Texts","authors":"C. Koch","doi":"10.59076/2603-2899.2023.2.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59076/2603-2899.2023.2.02","url":null,"abstract":"In Old Church Slavonic manuscripts compete in eight passages in the meaning of „life“ the lexemes ⰶⰹⰲⱁⱅⱏ and ⰶⰻⰸⱀⱐ. The intention of the present contribution is to determine for all these occurrences the wording of the first (Cyrillo-Methodian) translation by comparing the witness of the available post-OCS manuscripts.","PeriodicalId":52013,"journal":{"name":"Palaeobulgarica-Starobalgaristika","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49227755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Bulgarian Cultural-Historical and Natural Heritage in the Perspective of Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe","authors":"Elka Zlateva","doi":"10.59076/2603-2899.2023.2.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59076/2603-2899.2023.2.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52013,"journal":{"name":"Palaeobulgarica-Starobalgaristika","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45914925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Didactic Gospel by Constantine of Preslav in the Context of the Medieval South Slavonic Translations of the Homiletic Texts","authors":"E. Dikova","doi":"10.59076/2603-2899.2023.2.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59076/2603-2899.2023.2.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52013,"journal":{"name":"Palaeobulgarica-Starobalgaristika","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48953635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Wandering of the Mother of God with the Child in the Folk Tradition of the Border Between Slavia Orthodoxa and Slavia Catholica: Apocryphal and Folklore Motifs","authors":"Kaciaryna Bychak","doi":"10.59076/2603-2899.2023.2.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59076/2603-2899.2023.2.07","url":null,"abstract":"The narrative of the wandering Mother of God with the Child is popular within the corpus of the Folk Bible circulating on the frontier between Eastern and Western Christianity. In vernacular oral traditions transmitted on the borderlands of Poland, Belarus and Ukraine, we find not only interpretations of the canonical source of the New Testament motifs “Flight to Egypt” and “The Massacre of the Innocents” (Mat 2:13–19), but also some parabiblical motifs reaching back to apocryphal texts of the first centuries of Christianity (e.g. Prot. Jas., Arab. Gos. Inf.). The latter reflect traditional developments, incorporating portrayals of biblical characters into the native worldview of narrators. The motif of the wandering Mother of God with the Child is found in several types of oral transmission: a) The Nativity/Christmas ritual: carols, pastorals, church songs, sermons and homilies, fairground performances; b) in traditions relating to Marian devotion (folk Marian songs, iconography in Eastern Christianity); c) in axiological and moral traditions: songs, legends, charms. This paper presents collected variants of the motif of Wandering in folk culture and analysis of the origin of the motifs and their adaptation in the environment of vernacular tradition and of the social, religious and theological messages contained in the texts.","PeriodicalId":52013,"journal":{"name":"Palaeobulgarica-Starobalgaristika","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42137327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Translation of the Narration of Agapius as a Monument of the Earliest Period of Bulgarian Writing","authors":"V. Krysko","doi":"10.59076/2603-2899.2023.2.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59076/2603-2899.2023.2.01","url":null,"abstract":"The article analyzes the archaic linguistic features of the Old Bulgarian translation of the apocryphal Journey of Agapius to Paradise (The Narration of our father Agapius). Examples demonstrating a literal translation from Greek and the difficulties experienced by translators are considered. In the language of the monument, attention is drawn to the features inherent in the entire Old Bulgarian period, for example, the use of uncontracted forms of imperfect and adjectives, the primordal forms of participles on *-ius-, as well as to some unique lexemes. The handwritten tradition of the Narration of Agapius also reflects a number of features characteristic of the earliest stage of Bulgarian writing (late 9th – early 10th century), in particular the use of a root aorist. Especially important are the examples that testify to the glagolitic nature of the initial translation.","PeriodicalId":52013,"journal":{"name":"Palaeobulgarica-Starobalgaristika","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47054727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}