title: On the Oldest Book of Russia
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metadata.value: Ziborov, Viktor K.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-09-21T10:58:17Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-09-21T10:58:17Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-09
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Ziborov V. К. On the Oldest Book of Russia. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2018, vol. 63, issue 3, pp. 949–956.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2018.318
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/14925
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article is devoted to the Novgorod Psalter (hereinafter — NP), called by A. A. Zaliznyak
  and V. L. Yanin the oldest book of Rus. NP is the cerae, consisting of three wooden tablets with
  indentations filled with wax, in which the texts have been preserved. NP was found during
  the archaeological excavations (in 2000) after the discovery of the birch bark with the image
  of St. Barbara and the date below it. The scholars have done a lot of work on the restoration,
  deciphering texts and attributing this monument of ancient Russian literature. Initially,
  the dating of NP was based on the erroneous interpretation of the year below the image of
  St. Barbara — 6537 (1029). Later, on the basis of dendrochronological analysis and radiocarbon
  analysis of wax even the earlier date, the end of the 10th century, was suggested. The article
  puts forward arguments for a different dating of NP on the basis of a thorough paleographic
  analysis of the date and textual analysis of the source. The only possible interpretation of the
  date is 6637 (1129). Presumably, the date refers to the year of foundation of the monastery of
  St. Barbara, which is mentioned for the first time in the Novgorod Chronicles under 1138.
  The interpretation of the results of dendrochronological and radiocarbon analysis does not
  contradict the suggested dating. The nature of the texts preserved in the NP indicates that
  they were used during the church service, most probably, the monastic service. Some of the
  preserved psalms (from the first kathisma — no. 67, 75, 76) imply that the whole psalter was
  read. It is so called “Unsleeping” Psalter, whose reading was common for monastic services.
  The only temple located near the place of the discovery of NP was the church of St. Barbara,
  which was the monastic church. NP should be dated to the 1130s (not earlier). The dating of
  the NP proposed in the article does not enable to consider it the oldest book of Rus’.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 63; Issue 3
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: birch bark with a picture of Saint Barbara
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Old Russian numbers
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: text study
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: palaeography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: dating of archaeological finds
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: monastery of St. Barbara
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: On the Oldest Book of Russia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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