Info request -- OCS church inscriptions

[J.Dunn at SLAVONIC.ARTS.GLA.AC.UK]

Assuming that this request refers to the type of decorative writing known
as 'vjaz'', I would suggest consulting the following:

L.V. Cherepnin, Russkaja paleografija, Gosudarstvennoe izd-vo politicheskoj
lit-ry [!], Moscow, 1956, esp. pp.257-60, 386-88;

E.F. Karskij, Slavjanskaja kirillovskaja paleografija, Izd-vo Akad. nauk,
Leningrad, 1928 [reprint Nauka, Moscow, 1979], pp.236-48.

Both books have illustrations and tables.

John Dunn.




>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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