Ivan Fedorov's Bible (translated by Polikarpov)

[Daniel Collins]

Ivan Fedorov printed the Slavonic Bible in Ostrog (Ostrih) in 1580–81  
based primarily on the Gennadii Bible of 1499 (with reworking based on  
Slavonic manuscripts and the Greek text).  This was reprinted without  
substantive changes in Moscow in 1663.  Fedor Polikarpov was a student  
in the 1680s and died in 1731, so there must be some misunderstanding  
about his participation in these earlier editions.

There is a vast literature on the subject of the Slavonic Bible; your  
colleague may wish to start by consulting Slovar' knizhnikov i  
knizhnosti Drevnei Rusi: XI-pervaia polovina XIV v. (L. 1987), s.v.  
"Bibliia"; Anatolij A. Alekseev, Tekstologiia slavianskoi biblii (SPb.  
1999); and, with caution, M. N. Rizhskii, Istoriia perevodov biblii v  
Rossii (Novosibirsk, 1978).

Daniel E. Collins, Chair
Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures
The Ohio State University
400 Hagerty Hall
1775 College Road
Columbus, Ohio 43210-1340
On Nov 7, 2005, at 10:29 AM, Edward M Dumanis wrote:

> One of our coleagues is looking for any information related to the
> translation into Old Church Slavonic of the Bible by F. P. Polikarpov,  
> the
> translation which was printed by Ivan Fedorov and was one of the first
> printed books in Russia.
> The only source of information that he has now is coming from
>   http://compling.boom.ru/polik/p1.html
> and
>   http://compling.boom.ru/polik/bibles.html
>
> Is anything else known?
>
> It is not actually the question of the existence of the translation
> because he has it in his possession.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Edward Dumanis <dumanis at buffalo.edu>
>
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