Chudov New Testament

[Hugh Olmsted]

Dear colleagues,

In response to Syeng-Mann Yoo's question, and on the heels of Ol'ga Strakhov's
answer, It is worth adding that the text of the Chudov Novyi Zavet has just been
published in a new edition:
     Chudovskaia rukopis' Novogo Zaveta 1354 goda : trud Svt. Aleksiia
mitropolita Kievskogo, Moskovskogo i vseia Rusi chudotvortsa / podg. teksta T.L.
Aleksandrova ; posleslovie mitr. Volokolamskogo i Iur'evskogo Pitirima.   M. :
Severnyi Palomnik, 2001.   474 p. : ill. ; Oversized (30 cm.).

This edition, long in planning and in preparation, consists of a painstakingly
edited, re-set version of the entire text based on Amfilokhii's and Leontii's
editions, and does also include some 20 facsimile reproductions of individual
pages from the original manuscript as reproduced in Leontii's edition.  But--
and for linguists this will be significant-- it does NOT reproduce the
accentuation.  Nor does it give any variants vis a vis other redactions of the
New Testament, nor does it include a glossary of word forms.  The editors argue
in a substantial Posleslovie that the goals of this edition did not call for
such points.  For these editors the issue was the exact reproduction of the text
itself, to which end a great deal of care was devoted.

For anyone interested in such an edition, it is available from "Russian Studies
Publications," a book service which specializes in Medieval Slavic and Byzantine
studies, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Russian Reference works.  Contact address:
russbooks at mediaone.net.

Dr. Hugh Olmsted
Slavic Specialist, Research Services
Harvard College Library
Harvard University

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Subject: Re: Chudov New Testament
           Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 12:39:22 -0600
           From: Olga Strakhov <strakhov at GSD.HARVARD.EDU>
  Reply-To: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list

Dear Syeng-Mann,
the manuscript of the Chudov New Testament does not exist (it was stolen
during the Russian Revolution). It was phototypically printed, however, 3
times (by Archimandrite Amphilokhii somewhere in 1880s (an extremely rare
edition), by Metropolitan Leontii in 1892, and most recently by Werner
Lehfeldt (who reprinted Leontii's edition). See his Neues Testament des
Cudov-Klosters Phototypische Ausg. von Leontij, Metropolit von Moskau
(Moskau, 1892) ; mit einer Einleitung ; herausgegeben von Werner Lehfeldt
(KЖln : BЖhlau, 1989 = Bausteine zur Geschichte der Literatur bei den
Slaven ; Bd. 28). Lehfeldt's reprint (not very good, unfortunately) is,
however, the most accessible one. Note that accentuation of the text
although very frequent is not consistent. True, this is an earliest East
Russian manuscript that has such an extensive accentuation. There are a lot
of articles written on the Chudov New Testament's system of accentuation;
some of the references you can find in Lehfeldt's Preface.

Olga B. Strakhov
Frances Loeb Library
Graduate School of Design
Gund Hall
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
tel.: + 617-496-9543
fax: + 617-496-5929

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Subject: Chudov new testament
           Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 12:19:32 -0500
           From: Syeng-Mann Yoo <slavophilia at HOTMAIL.COM>
  Reply-To: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list

Dear list members

I am looking for "Chudov New Testament" which is said to be the earliest
consistently accented East Slavic manucript. Our library does not have one.
Does any one have a copy of this manuscript or know the location? In
addition, does anyone know any accentological study on this manuscript? The
manuscript is qutie often mentioned in the literature of Slavic accentology,
but I could not find a full/comprehensive study on the accentual system of
this specific manuscript. Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

Syeng-Mann Yoo

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