Info request -- OCS church inscriptions

[Hoyte & Elena King]

"David E. Crawford" wrote:

> Can anyone on the list recommend a good, illustrated book depicting
> (and hopefully explaining how to interpret!) decorative textual
> Russian Orthodox church inscriptions?  I found them difficult to
> read during my visit to Russia in 1999.  I presume most of them are
> written in OCS, but aside from the language differences the mere
> print style was a challenge to decipher as well.  Rumor had it that
> Khaburgayev's "Staroslavyanskiy Yazyk" addressed this issue, but it
> isn't covered in my recently-acquired 1974 edition;  is the 1986
> version better in this regard?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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There is a history of Russian Orthodox iconography called: "Osnovi
Ikonografii Drevnerusskoj Zhivopisi" ("The Fundamentals of Early Russian Icon
Writing"). This is the text used in Russia to teach iconography.  It is
readily available in Russia and may be in some libraries in the US. If you
like, I can sell you a copy of the manuscript from my English translation
that no one is interested in publishing.  Be the first buyer!

Hoyte King

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