Religious art with Church Slavonic inscriptions

[Gwyn Bourlakov]

Prof. Browne,

I would like to take a look at it as I have worked with and have an
interest in Church Slavonic manuscripts. I would be happy to share my
observations concerning the inscriptions.

Respectfully,

Gwyn Bourlakov
PhD Student
Department of History
University of Kansas
On May 8, 2014 11:53 AM, "E Wayles Browne" <ewb2 at cornell.edu> wrote:

>  Dear all,
>
> A Cornell alumnus has sent me photographs of a piece of religious art
> showing many sacred personages with brief Church Slavonic inscriptions. At
> the top is a particularly complicated piece of vjaz' (interwoven letters).
> Now, Cornell likes to help the public, especially its own old students.
> However, not having a good iconographic education, I can't decipher much of
> the inscriptions or tell this student how old his painting might be. May I
> send the photographs (.jpg format) to some better-educated person among you
> for help?
>
> Yours,
>   --
> Wayles Browne, Prof. of Linguistics
> Department of Linguistics
> Morrill Hall 220, Cornell University
> Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.
>
> tel. 607-255-0712 (o), 607-273-3009 (h)
> fax 607-255-2044 (write FOR W. BROWNE)
> e-mail ewb2 at cornell.edu
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