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Literary Collectors as Literary Scribes: The Case of Đuro Ferić (1739-1820)

The essay reconstructs the scribal collection of Ragusan literature compiled by Đuro Ferić (1739-1820) and currently scattered across various libraries. It argues that the focus on individual scribes is the best way of…

Re-evaluating the Psalterium Sinaiticum: the Limitations of Internal Reconstruction as a Text-Critical Method

The Psalterium Sinaiticum, a Glagolitic manuscript containing an Old Church Slavonic version of the Book of Psalms, has usually been treated, since its discovery in the later nineteenth century, as representative of the…

Optional Materials of the Printed Liturgiarion [in the Light of Selected Examples from the Kyiv Metropolitanate in the 16th and 17th Century]

In 16th-17th-century's liturgical books one can find numerous additions regarded as redundant and optional. These paratextual elements are: verbal (e.g., prefaces, dedicational verses or letters, afterwords, introductio…

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On Translations of the Emerald to Ruthenian

Several attempts were made in the Kyiv Metropolis to translate the basic version of the Emerald (Izmaragd) from Church Slavonic to Ruthenian. These translations were fragmentary, though. The oldest translation, limited…

New, Rare and Slavonized Graecisms and Their Role in Localization of Church Slavonic Texts

The paper provides overview of the destiny of some Old Church Slavonic/Church Slavonic manuscripts, as well as the issues related to their time and spatial localization. Special attention has been paid to the role of lo…

Fates of the Old Czech Annals [Text F]

The collection of Hussite chronicles called Old Czech Annals contains more than thirty manuscripts some of which have been left out of the research spotlight. One of them is the Czech written text F (called "of Stockhol…

The Homily on The [Cursed] Fig-Tree and the Parable of the Vineyard by John Damascene in Mediaeval Slavonic Literature [Preliminary Observations]

The Slavonic version of the homily dedicated to The (Cursed) Fig-Tree and the Parable of the Vineyard by John Damascene has not been so far object of an archeographic-textological study. The present study gives the init…

Last Will as an Act of Preparation for Death [Based on Documents from Registers of the Solovetskiy Monastery of the 16th Century]

Expressing wishes as to how a person's property was to be distributed at death was permitted by Old-Russian common law. At first, oral disposals had been practiced, whereas written wills became widespread only in the 14…

Illuminated Manuscript 626 C from the Treasury of Split Cathedral - Riddles and Suppositions

The collections in Croatian churches and monasteries keep treasure of outstanding cultural and historical value, which is still waiting to be studied, properly evaluated and published. Among just such precious items is…

The Uniate Alteration of the Orthodox Treatise Zercalo bogoslovii

The article deals with the modification introduced by the Uniates to the Orthodox treatise Zercalo bogoslovii (1618), published in Pochaiv in 1790. The Uniate publishers created the Uniate roots of treatise, changed the…

Of Manuscript Culture in Early Modern Dubrovnik

In the article's introduction, the author points to the history of the book as one of the younger sub-disciplines and to its relevance for literary history. This fact is particularly important for old Dubrovnik where th…

Private Handwritten Prayer Books of the Catholics from the XVIII-XIX-century Right-Bank Ukraine as an Evidence of the Era).

The article presents a description and analysis of the peculiarities of the handwritten prayer books of Catholics of the Right-Bank Ukraine of the XVIІІ-XIX centuries on the example of one of the collections of the Cent…

Mihanović Homiliarium in the Monastery of St Prohor of Pčinja: an Overlooked Fragment of a Cognate Serbian Parchment Manuscript Copy of the 14th Century

The article presents an analysis of a Cyrillic parchment fragment of Serbian provenance once kept in the monastery of St Prohor of Pčinja and published by J. Hadži-Vasiljević in 1900. The fragment is now identified as b…

Unknown Аrchaic Тranslation of Sermon 5 from John of Sinaya's Scala Paradisi, in a Serbian Manuscript from the 14th Century

The subject of this research is an unknown Slavic translation of Sermon 5 John of Sinaya's Scala Paradisi (Lestvica) in a Serbian Menaion and Triodion Panagyric, rewritten from an old Bulgarian antigraph which has prese…

Did Two Zlatousts from the Collection of the Princes Chartoryski Library in Cracow Once Belong to Fr Iwan Wiszeński?

In the collection of manuscripts of the Princes Chartoryski Library in Cracow, there are two manuscripts (from the beginning of the 17th century) which are related, in academic literature, with the person of Orthodox mo…

GANDHIAN PRINCIPLES ON HEALTH: EVIDENCES, RELEVANCE AND IMPLICATIONS IN THE MODERN CONTEXT OF HEALTH

Mohan Das Karamchand Gandhi, popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi is one of the greatest visionaries who is known for his anti-imperialistic views and strong political strategies. Right from his childhood till his last bre…

Phytochemistry, Anthelmintic study of herbaceous aerial part of Kallstroemia pubescens (G. Don) & Review of Novel Effects of Diosgenin: A Plant Derived Steroid

The genus is named after A. Kallstroem who lived in the 18th century. Diosgenin is an aglycone of the steroidal saponin, dioscin in yam and is a principal raw material for the industrial production of steroid drugs. It…

Writing Publishable Qualitative Scientific Research

Research is "a systematic process of investigation, the general purpose of which is to contribute to the body of knowledge that shapes and guides academic and/or practice disciplines". Qualitative scientific research is…

Role of metformin on clozapine induced dyslipidaemia in Wistar rats

Background: The clinical research in the past decade has reported that most second-generation antipsychotics (SGAs) can cause serious metabolic derangement, which substantially increases the risk for type II diabetes me…

An evaluation of fixed dose combinations (FDCs) used for treatment of diabetes in Indian market

Objective: To analyse the rationality of various FDCs used in the treatment of Diabetes Mellitus and to find out the irrational FDCs existing in the Indian market. Material and Methods: Study Design: Analytical study. D…

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The Enlightenment Ideas in the Bulgarian 19th Century. The Kardzhalian Topic in the Works of Vera Mutafchieva

The article examines the Enlightenment ideas in the part of Vera Mutafchieva's work. The time of Kardzhali, a specific period of chaos and marauding in the Ottoman Empire in the 18th and 19th century, is a period of the…

The sources of rationalism in Croatia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A study of less obvious cases (physics, theology, and politics)

The paper is an attempt to describe the reception of the idea of rationalism in order to represent its reworking in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Croatia in three areas - physics, theology and politics. The…