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Walters Ms. W.548, Fragments of a Sluzhebnik (Euchologion)Browse images (Browse images in a new window) | TEI in XML format
Manuscript
Fragments of a Sluzhebnik (Euchologion)
Text title
Slavic Orthodox Liturgical Book
Abstract
This liturgical text is a rare example of an early Russian manuscript, dating from the fourteenth century. It offers a fascinating case study in the history of manuscript collecting. Because of some eleventh-century dates written in the text, the manuscript was long believed to have been made in that century. Later it was argued that the work was in fact a nineteenth-century forgery by a Russian collector, Alexander Sulakadzev (Demkova 1979). A recent study (Afanas'eva 2009), however, has determined its origin definitively: the pages of this book were cut from a larger manuscript (Saint Petersburg, National Library of Russia, Ms. O. п. Î. 4) and bound together (out of order), probably by Sulakadzev. Sulakadzev is also likely to have added the notes that made the text appear to date to the eleventh century.
Language:
The primary language in this manuscript is Church Slavic; Old Slavonic; Church Slavonic; Old Bulgarian; Old Church Slavonic.
Support material
Parchment
Medium-weight parchment; brown stains on edges from use; some holes and uneven edges
Extent
Foliation: 16
Foliated in pencil on upper right rectos
Collation
Formula: 1-8(2)
Catchwords: None
Signatures: None
Comments: Each bifolio appears to have been cut from the center of a quire from the larger manuscript (St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia, O. Ï. Î. 4)
Dimensions
12.5 cm wide by 17.0 cm high
Written surface
9.0 cm wide by 12.5 cm high
Layout
Contents:
fols. 1r - 16v:Decoration:
fol. 13v:
Binding
The binding is not original.
Disbound bifolia housed in a nineteenth-century binding of red velvet over pasteboard with paper pastedowns
Provenance
Created in Russia in the fourteenth century as part of a larger liturgical text (Saint Petersburg, National Library of Russia ms. O. п. Î. 4)
Alexander Sulakadzev, before 1816 (labeled and numbered on front pastedown: "Codex Sulakasianus Slavonicus membranaceus dictus: CoyбopÐ½Ð¸ÐºÑ const. fol.: 16. 1v-16v, saec XIo. Cum Postillis Sulakasianis")
Henry Walters, Baltimore, before 1931 (bookplate on front pastedown)
Acquisition
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Bibliography
De Ricci, Seymour. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935. p. 817. no. 369.
Demkova, Natalia. "ÐÑевнеÑÑÑÑкие ÑÑкопиÑи и ÑÑаÑопeÑаÑнÑе kниги в нekotopÑx ÑобpaниÑx" Trudy Otdela drevnerusskoi literatury 34 (1979): pp. 388-405.
Parpulov, Georgi. "A Medieval Russian Manuscript at the Walters Art Museum (W.548)." Journal of the Walters Art Museum. Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004): pp. 229-232, p. 230 fig. 1 (fol. 2r), p. 230 fig. 2 (fol. 13v).
Afanas'eva, Tatiana. "CлÑжебник Рнб Ð. п. I. 4 и Ð ÑкoпиÑÑ Walter Art Museum (W. 548) â единÑй дpевнеpÑÑÑкий кoÐ´ÐµÐºÑ Ð¿Ðµpвoй пoлoÐ²Ð¸Ð½Ñ XIV в." 2009. http://www.drevnyaya.ru/vyp/2009_2/part5.pdf
Parpulov, Georgi. "Pre-1650 Cyrillic Manuscripts in U.S. Public Collections: A Catalogue." Palaeoslavica 18, no. 2 (2010): pp. 1-53, p. 7, no. 3.
Contributors
Cataloger: Parpulov, Georgi R.
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Joyal, Stephanie
Conservators: Owen, Linda; Quandt, Abigail
Contributors: Bockrath, Diane; Emery, Doug; Noel, William; Tabritha, Ariel; Toth, Michael B.
Publisher
The Walters Art Museum
License
Licensed for use under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Access Rights, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode. It is requested that copies of any published articles based on the information in this data set be sent to the curator of manuscripts, The Walters Art Museum, 600 North Charles Street, Baltimore MD 21201.
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