Title: Alanic marginal notes in a Greek liturgical manuscript /
Authors: Lubotsky, Alexander.
Date: 2015
Publisher: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften,
Physical description: 69 pages, 33 unnumbered pages of plates : facsimiles (some color) ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: A
Abstract: "The book represents the first publication of the complete corpus of Alanic marginal notes in a 13th century Byzantine manuscript from the Library of the Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg. This manuscript is a Greek Old Testament lectionary, or Prophetologion, which at one point was owned and used by an Alanic priest who had learned to read and write Greek, but felt the need to identify the feasts in the margin of his manuscript, because he could not easily find them by skimming the text. For this purpose, he wrote an abbreviated heading of his own in the margin, next to the full heading of the manuscript. There are altogether 34 marginal notes in the manuscript (24 Alanic, 9 Greek, and 1 mixed). In this edition, every note is followed by the Greek heading, to which the note refers, its translation, and a black-and-white photograph. Then, a short outline of the liturgical context is provided, when necessary, followed by paleographic comments and an analysis of the meaning of the note and its linguistic structure"--
Contents: Description of the manuscript -- Paleography -- The Ossetic dialects -- Alanic and the Greek alphabet -- The complete list of the marginal notes -- Comments on the marginal notes -- Alanic marginal notes -- Greek marginal notes -- The spelling and the language of the notes -- Appendix : The Alanic text in Tzetzes' "Theogonia".
Notes: Academy publication.
Subject headings (LCSH): Manuscripts, Byzantine.; Ossetic language.