[INDOLOGY] Russian 14 cent. Birchbark MSS from Novgorod

[Artur Karp]

Another website:

http://bibliotekar.ru/nauka/45.htm

And, for sure, scores of other equally interesting sites,

Artur

2014-10-20 23:28 GMT+02:00 Artur Karp <karp at uw.edu.pl>:

> I realize now, the site is a part of Professor Schaeken's project:
>
> *Birchbark Literacy from Medieval Rus: Contents and Contexts
> (INTAS-Project Ref. Nr. 03-51-3867)*
>
>
> A.
>
>
>
> 2014-10-20 23:16 GMT+02:00 Artur Karp <karp at uw.edu.pl>:
>
>> 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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