[INDOLOGY] Russian 14 cent. Birchbark MSS from Novgorod

[Artur Karp]

A good Russian birchbark manuscripts  site (*Древнерусские берестяные
грамоты) *with over 1000 manuscripts dated 1050 - 1500 AD, at:

http://gramoty.ru/index.php?key=bb

Best,

Artur Karp





2014-10-20 22:38 GMT+02:00 <asko.parpola at helsinki.fi>:

>
> Dear Richard,
>
> Professor Jos Schaeken, who leads the international team of researchers
> studying
> these birchbark documents, has written such a preliminary discussion in
> Dutch:
>
> Schaeken, Jos, 2012. Stemmen op berkenbast. Berichten uit middeleeuws
> Rusland:
> Dagelijks leven en communicatie. Leiden: Leiden University Press. 176 pp.
> e-ISBN 978-94-0060-086-7.
>
> This is freely downloadable as an open access book at the address
> given by Professor Schaeken on his website, where the leaders of the
> international team are also mentioned: http://www.schaeken.nl/lu/
> research/index.htm
>
> Best regards, Asko Parpola
>
>
>
> Quoting Richard Salomon <rsalomon at u.washington.edu>:
>
>  Does anyone know of any good scholarly discussions of the Novgorod
>> documents? They sound like the same sort of thing as the Vindolanda
>> (Yorkshire) letters, which present fascinating slices of ordinary life back
>> in the day. Nothing comparable from the ancient Indian world,
>> unfortunately, although the Niya Kharosthi documents are somewhat close.
>>
>> Rich Salomon
>>
>> On 10/20/2014 5:56 AM, Stefan Baums wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Dominik and Matthew,
>>>
>>> yes, plenty of birch in Russia. And the letters are incised
>>> in the bark. Here two photos where that is more clearly
>>> visible:
>>>
>>>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birch_bark_manuscript#
>>> mediaviewer/File:Beresta.jpg
>>>    http://users.stlcc.edu/mfuller/Novgorodwoodp.html (scroll down)
>>>
>>> It am not sure whether ink was rubbed into the incisions
>>> (palm‐leaf style), but this may have been unnecessary since
>>> the incision made the darker lower bark visible through the
>>> light outer layer.
>>>
>>> All best,
>>> Stefan
>>>
>>>
>> --
>> ----------------------
>>
>> Richard Salomon
>> Department of Asian Languages and Literature
>> University of Washington, Box 353521
>> Seattle WA 98195-3521
>> USA
>>
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