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Slavistica Vilnensis
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ISSN (Print) 2424-6115 - ISSN (Online) 2351-6895
Published by Vilnius University

[38 journals]

Francisk Skorina, Wroclaw and Adam Dyon: Book Migration and the First
Paleotype of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
- Authors: Nadežda Morozova Aleksandr Parshenkov
  Abstract: This article provides an analysis of the early history of a copy of Akathists by Francisk Skorina, held in the Wroclaw University Library, along with a detailed examination of the edition’s specific decorative features. Evidence is presented demonstrating that this copy of the Akathists formerly belonged to Daniel Prinz von Buchau. Through a thorough study of the historical context, the authors conclude that Skorina employed se condary printed materials in the production of his Akathists. The hypothesis regarding the possible Nuremberg origin of certain decorative elements in Skorina’s edition of Akathists is supported by the findings presented in this article. The information also substantiates the assumption that Skorina spent time in Wroclaw and engaged with local publishers. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that parts of The Little Traveller’s Book could not have been printed in Prague. This article is the first to publish scientifically verified information about the connection between Francisk Skorina and Adam Dyon, and it includes images of decorative elements shared by both printers. Additionally, it suggests the possibility that Skorina utilized materials from the Leipzig printer Martin Landsberg in his work. The arguments presented provide a robust basis for confirming the chronology of the first paleotype of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
  PubDate: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +000
Editorial Board and Table of Contents
- Authors: Jelena Konickaja
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  PubDate: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +000
Genadz Apanasavich Tsykhun (10/30/1936 – 10/18/2024)
- Authors: Nadežda Morozova
  Abstract: Henadz Apanasavich Tsykhun, one of the most famous Belarusian linguists, Doctor of Philology (1982), Professor (1996), Chief Researcher at the Yakub Kolas Institute of Linguistics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Vice-President of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences (1994–1995), Vice-President of the International Association of Belarusianists (1994–2000), died on October 18, 2024. The editors of the journal Slavistica Vilnensis expresses sincere condolences to the family and friends of the professor, his many students and colleagues.
  PubDate: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +000
Ruthenian Exposition of the Kievan Caves Paterikon in the Manuscript Small
Bible by Gregory Dmytriyevych (Sharhorod, 1660): Publication
- Authors: Sergejus Temčinas
  Abstract: The abridged exposition of selected articles of the Kievan Caves Paterikon in the manuscript entitled Small Bible and written by the Orthodox priest Gregory Dmytriyevych in Sharhorod in 1660 (Moscow, Russian State Library, V. M. Undolskiy collection (f. 310), No. 527, fol. 236v–240v; 241v– 242v), is published in full.
  PubDate: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +000
Professor Walery Czekman (Valerijus Čekmonas) in the Light of His over 25
Years of Correspondence
- Authors: Elżbieta Smułkowa
  Abstract: Professor Elzbieta Smulkova's memories of the Vilnius University professor Valerijus Chekmonas are based on materials from personal correspondence that continued over many years. Cooperation in the field of Polish and Belarusian studies was very fruitful, although in their course scientists were more than once faced with the need to solve complex issues.
  PubDate: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +000
“The Art of Writing” as a Value in the 1788 Dissertation by Jacek Idzi
Przybylski, Librarian of the Royal Main School in Krakow
- Authors: Inesa Kuryan
  Abstract: We rarely consider whether the alphabet holds value for us. It is more of a tool for everyday writing, which value is variable and has its own history. The most precious aspect is that the act of writing with letters inherently contains the condition of commemorating only important content for future generations. An inspiring text from 1788 on the development of the Art of Writing among the Ancients by Jacek Idzi Przybylski (1756–1819), a well-known Polish figure of the Enlightenment, translator, and university librarian in Kraków, allows us to view texts and accumulated knowledge, for which universities ultimately bore responsibility, from both diachronic and axiological perspectives. This is crucial for understanding the university as a foundation for future generations of students, scholars, creators, and, more broadly, citizens. The author speaks about texts through the example of classical philology and its ethical values, reflecting on how writing and texts developed with an emphasis on particular skills in thinking and expressing emotions. For a long time, these skills were singled out as the only ones worthy of being recorded, commemorated, and passed on to future generations in the development of human civilization. The earliest attempts to record events using alphabetic writing were, for centuries, linked to valuable messages, maturing into outstanding content in both painting and literature. The axiology of the earliest ancient texts – based on high poetic standards – shaped the translation work of Jacek Idzi Przybylski,, a somewhat forgotten scholar and translator of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He, in turn, enabled students at the University of Vilna in the early 19th century to develop their own talents through his works and, as a result, demonstrate true “art of writing” in the form of outstanding works of Vilnian Romanticism.
  PubDate: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +000
Letters of Peter Torchakov from the Second Half of the 17th Century:
Themes and Graphic Features
- Authors: Anastasiia Ryko
  Abstract: The article focuses on the analysis of the private letters of Peter Torchakov, the son of a mid-17th-century merchant from Ivangorod. The set of Peter Torchakov’s letters is part of the unpublished archive of Parthenius Torchakov, stored in the National Archives of Estonia, and consists of 16 letters written between 1661 and 1667. Special attention is paid to two aspects: the thematic content of the letters and their graphic features. The letters not only intertwine business and personal matters, which is typical of correspondence during that period, but also partially reflect political events. In addition, these “gramotki” demonstrate graphic diversity. The analysis of the graphic variations of certain letters and the use of graphically paired letters makes it possible to divide the entire corpus of letters into two parts and associate these graphic systems with the thematic content of the letters. The presence of different graphic subsystems in texts written by the same author suggests that the choice of writing style was a conscious decision reflecting the content of the text. This conclusion finds parallels in book writings, where the dependence of handwriting on the function of the text was also observed.
  PubDate: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +000
The Life of Chariton the Confessor (September 28) by Symeon the Metaphrast
asa Source for the Life of John the New of Suceava (June 2) by Gregory
Tsamblak
- Authors: Sergejus Temčinas
  Abstract: The article demonstrates that while writing the Life of the martyr John the New of Suceava, the first national Moldavian saint, the internationally known prolific Bulgarian author Gregory Tsam- blak must have used one of several existing Church Slavonic versions of the Byzantine Life of the venerable Chariton the Confessor, written by Simeon the Metaphrast, which is quite different it its plot. It is manifested in a quite extensive verbatim quotation of its incipit in the opening sentence of the text. Tsamblak must have consulted the Byzantine Life in its East Slavonic version, as the collation pre- sented in the article evidently shows, since only a weak connection with the South Slavonic version can be traced. The fact that Tsamblak used Symeon’s hagiography in the Church Slavonic translation and not in the Greek original excludes the theoretical possibility that the Life of John the New was origi- nally written in Greek by a different (anonymous) author, as it is sometimes assumed. It is explained by Gregory Tsamblak’s appreciation of the Jerusalem Typikon, quite new in the early 15th-century Moldova, while creating the new national Moldavian church cult of John the New of Suceava, since the ecclesiastic tradition features Chariton the Confessor as the earliest “creator” of the Jerusalem Typikon.
  PubDate: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +000
Intellectual Component of Human Language Model in the Russian and Baltic
Languages (based on Material of Phraseological Units of the Russian,
Latvian and Lithuanian Languages)
- Authors: Tatyana Stoikova
  Abstract: The article considers the intellectual component of the Russian and Baltic human language model (HLM) based on the material of phraseologisms. The intellectual component is characterized by somatic phraseological units (PhU) with key components correlated in Russian and Baltic languages: Rus. голова, мозг (мозги), ум, разум, рассудок / Latv. galva, smadzenes, prāts, saprāts / Lithuan.
  PubDate: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +000
Main Names of Blueness in Polish and Lithuanian Languages: Prototypes and
Connotations
- Authors: Viktorija Ušinskienė
  Abstract: The article presents the results of the contrastive semantic analysis of the main Polish and Lithuanian blueness names. The aim is to compare the collocability of color names with names of various objects and phenomena including the identification of the prototype references and connotative meanings. The research shows that the categorization of the blue spectrum is more complicated in the Polish language: in the Lithuanian language, blueness corresponds to two main names – mėlynas and žydras, while in Polish, in addition to the two basic terms niebieski ‘blue’ and błękitny ‘light blue’, the special name granatowy ‘very dark blue (almost black)’ and poetic modry ʻintense blue’ are widely used. The last two words have no direct equivalents in the Lithuanian language. The difference in lin- guistic categorization creates certain difficulties in translating assigned contexts from Polish to Lithu- anian. In terms of synchronicity, the semantic prototype of the main Polish (niebieski / błękitny) and Lithuanian (mėlynas / žydras) terms can be considered sky, although etymologically, such a nominative model characterizes only the Polish niebieski < niebo ʻsky’. According to the primary semantics, the Polish term corresponds to the Lithuanian dangiškas < dangus ‘sky’, but it does not belong to the main names of this color. The prototype of the Polish side name siny is not a natural phenomenon, but an area of the human body that has turned blue due to cold, anger or a beating. In the Lithuanian language, in this case, the semantically close forms of the participles pamėlęs, pamėlynavęs or the main term mėlynas are used. The connotative meanings of the main names of blueness, such as ʻdistant, endless’, ‘being in heaven’, ‘divine, excellent’ have been identified for both languages. The latter meanings are characteristic of one of the main Polish terms – niebieski, and in the Lithuanian language it corresponds to the secondary, less frequently used name for blueness – dangiškas. The connotation ‘homosexual’ (žydras) occurs only in the Lithuanian language.
  PubDate: Thu, 26 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +000

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