B 6a (PAPER). SHORT HISTORY OF THE CYRILLIC ALPHABET (original) (raw)
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2019
The paper discusses the Glagolitic, Cyrillic, and Latin orthographies of the Slavic books published by the Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide in Rome during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Through a comparison of eight versions of the Slavic text of the Apostles’ Creed, the specific features of the respective orthographies are analysed in a chronological perspective. In addition, cross-scriptal comparisons of three editions of Robert Bellarmine’s Nauk karstjanski kratak (published in the Glagolitic alphabet in 1628, in the Cyrillic alphabet in 1629, and in the Latin alphabet in 1633) and of the parallel Glagolitic and Cyrillic texts of Matej Karaman’s biscriptal Bukvar (1753) are made. As the analysis shows, all texts exhibit a clear development from orthographies reflecting Central South Slavonic linguistic features to orthographies that show influence of East Slavic orthographic models. These tendencies are most pronounced in the Glagolitic and Cyrillic texts, whereas the orthography of the Latin-script texts seems to be more stable. The article includes as an appendix a preliminary check-list of Slavonic books published by the Propaganda Fide during the period 1627–1791.
BULGARIAN SCRIPT A EUROPEAN PHENOMENON
2008
By Assoc. Prof. Dr Plamen Pavlov, Dr Atanas Orachev and Antoniy Handjiysky; pp. 80 with 127 colour and black-and-white illustrations, hardcover with a jacket, size 16х22 cm; published in Bulgarian, English, French and Russian. The book consists of two parts. The first part presents the work of the saint brothers Cyril and Methodius, while the second part examines the appearance and the presence of different script systems in Bulgarian lands down the millennia.