New Book Announcement - The Curzon Gospel

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From: Turr, Elyse <Elyse.Turr at oup.com>
Date: Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:47 PM

The Curzon Gospel
Volume I: An Annotated Edition
Volume II: A Linguistic and Textual Introduction
Cynthia Vakareliyska
Oxford University Press | October 2008 | ISBN: 978-0-19-921679-6

The Curzon Gospel c. 1354, is important both for the study of the
development of the Bulgarian language and for understanding the
medieval Slavic tradition of Gospel transmission.  Unlike most
medieval Slavic manuscripts, it is reliably datable and serves as a
chronological reference point for other gospel manuscripts.  Cynthia
Vakareliyska's annotated transcription edition includes modern chapter
and verse numeration and a line-by-line comparison of the text with a
corpus of twelve other Church Slavonic manuscripts.  It has an index
verborum of all orthographic and morphological forms in the text and
their locations.  Vakareliyska examines The Curzon Gospel's close
relationship to the thirteenth and fourteenth-century Dobreisho and
Banitsa gospels and, by comparing the three manuscripts, offers a
broad reconstruction of their common ancestor.  She includes a
detailed discussion of The Curzon Gospel's calendar of saints,
discussing its relation to the tenth-century Constantinople Typikon
and Latin martyrologies, and its implications for the understanding of
the medieval Slavic calendar tradition.  The book is fully indexed.

These volumes offer a unique resource for the study of the medieval
Church Slavonic language and Gospel tradition, and the veneration of
saints in the Slavic Eastern Orthodox tradition. Cynthia
Vakareliyska's work will be treasured by generations of scholars.

 - The first full publication of The Curzon Gospel, transliterated and annotated
 - An essential tool for the study of medieval Slavic
 - Offers unique insights into the history of the Eastern Orthodox Church

More information here:  http://tinyurl.com/The-Curzon-Gospel

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