New Publication: The Journal of the Chicago Pastoral School

The Journal of the Chicago Pastoral School

Selected Works by Students ofThe Pastoral School of Chicago and Detroit!

The Journal of the Chicago Pastoral School is published with the Blessing of His Grace the Rt. Rev. Bishop Peter of Cleveland and administrator of the Diocese of Chicago and Detroit of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia.

See: http://www.orthodoxtheologicalschool.org/journal/index.html

Seton Hall University Libraries is sponsoring an upcoming symposium,
The Destruction, Preservation and Rebirth of Religious and Cultural Heritage: Perspectives from the United States and Eastern Europe, to
be held from 9:15 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. on Monday, September 17th in the Beck Room of Walsh Library.

A preliminary program can be found at:
http://library.shu.edu/conference/schedule.htm
Noted scholars from Yale, Harvard, Notre Dame, Ohio State,
CUNY-Queens, Emporia State University and the University of Osijek,
Croatia will examine issues in the preservation of cultural heritage,
especially the Christian heritage, in post-Communist Eastern Europe.

Admission is free, but space is limited. Please register by
contacting: Dr. Marta Deyrup telephone (973-275-2223) email: deyrupma@shu.edu

Lectures & Memorial Service in Memory of Hieromonk Seraphim Rose

The 25th anniversary of the ever-memorable Hieromonk Seraphim (Rose's) repose will fall on Sunday, September 2. Father Seraphim was a hieromonk of the Western American Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia.Thanks to his many translations and articles Father Seraphim became a teacher of faith and piety to many Orthodox people throughout the world. His theological legacy is set apart by it's strictness and faithfullness to patristic Tradition. Fr. Seraphim's missionary endeavors are especially relevant in our day.The 25th anniverasry of Hieromonk Seraphim's repose will be specially marked at the St. Herman of Alaska Monastery (now under the Serbian Orthodox Church) in Platina, California. On Sunday, September 2, at 2:00 pm a series of lectures on Fr. Seraphim will be read. On Monday, September 3, a Hierarchal Liturgy is scheduled at 10:00 am followed by a memorial service and meal.

Schedule of Celebrations of the Reestablishment of the Brotherly Unity of the Local Russian Orthodox Church In the Dioceses of ROCOR

With the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia, an official delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, headed by His Eminence Metropolitan Isidor of Ekaterinodar and Kuban, will participate in celebrations of the reestablishment of canonical unity of the Russian Orthodox Church. For more information see:
http://www.russianorthodoxchurch.ws/synod/eng2007/8ensretenconsched.html

Glagolitic Initial B: The Enina Apostle

The Enina Apostle is a rare, and unique in its antiquity, cyrillic handwritten record belonging to the group of the ancient old-Bulgarian monuments from the 10th and 11th century. It is of essential importance for the universal Slavistics. The copy is a transcription of the earliest translation of this kind of liturgical literature and was made by the Slavic first-teachers St.Cyril and St.Methodius when the Slavic world converted to Christianity. According to its contents the book is a part of a liturgical apostle as the leaves which have been saved until the present day consist of apostolic readings from the 35th Sunday after Pentecost until the vespers of the Holy Saturday and from the 1st September until the 3rd October - the Day of Dionisos the Areopagite. The thirty nine oiled paper leaves provide a good opportunity for the original ancient Slavic cyrillic letters to be traced back and for a study of their relative ornamental glagolitic drawings used at various places in the text. The book is of great importance for the study of the basic linguistic, orthographic and textual characteristics of the oldest Bulgarian liturgical literature as a branch of the Christian culture in early orthodox Europe. These features are in common with the best known early glagolitic and cyrillic manuscripts such as Aprakos Evangelion (Codex Assemanianus), Codex Clozianus, Psalterum Sinaiticum, Lectionary Gospel (Savina kniga), etc. The leaf is one of the saved ornamented glagolitic initials B. The interlaced details prevail in the decoration of the initials. The bands in the interlacing are coloured red and ink-brown; in some places they are divided in chess-board order. Besides these some ornamental elements are used in the decoration that are supposed to have been invented on our native soil but which do not conform to the Byzantine examples. The manuscript was found in the “Holy Petka Tarnovska” church in Enina village, Kazanlak district. (Narodna Biblioteka Sv. Sv. Kiril i Metodii) For additional information see: http://libraries.theeuropeanlibrary.org/Bulgaria/treasures_en.xml

First Printed Cyrillic Script Book

Oktoikh is the first printed book of the Cyrillic script. It was brought out in Cracow in 1491 by Schweipolt Fiol native of Franconia. Oktoikh is one of the most widespread liturgical books of the Orthodox church. The text is prefaced with a frontispiece with a picture of the crucifix, at the end there is a colophon complete with printer's mark. The ornamental attire of the book is modest and made up of one headpiece and one initial. In the world there are seven copies of the book of five hundred years, with the only complete one being kept by the Russian State library. In the past the book was owned by Wroclaw reformer and bibliophile Johann Hess (1490 to 1547).

(Rossiiskaya Gosudarstvennaya Biblioteka)

For additional information see: http://libraries.theeuropeanlibrary.org/RussiaMoscow/treasures_en.xml

PSALTER PUBLISHED BY IVAN FEDOROV 1570

From the Collections of the National Library of Russia -

St. Pertersburg

Ivan Fedorov (also known as Fedorovych, Fedorovyc], b. circa 1520-1530, d. 6 December 1583 in Lvov. Fedorov, a deacon of the Church of Saint Nicholas in the Moscow Kremlin, was the founder of book printing and book publishing in Russia and Ukraine. In 1564 he printed, together with Petr Msislavets, the first exactly dated Russian printed book, Apostole, in the Moscow printing house, established by Tsar Ivan IV (the Terrible). In 1566 Ivan Fedorov and Pyotr Mstislavets had to flee from Moscow to Grand Duchy of Lithuania. There the first Russian printers were received by the Lithuanian great hetman H. Khodkevich at his estate in Zabludov near Grodno, where they published Ievanheliie uchytel’noie (Didactic Gospel, 1569) and Psaltyr (Psalter, 1570). The Book of Psalms was a widespread sacred book for use in worship, study in schools, and reading at home. The Zabludov edition is a very fine masterpiece of printing arts, richly decorated with a large number of illuminated initial letters, ornamental page titles, head ornaments and tailpieces etc. The book is illustrated by two engravings that feature a figure of the traditional author of the Psalms King David and the coat of arms of H. Khodkevych. The Psalter was printed in the Old Church Slavonic alphabet. Only 4 copies of the Zabludov edition have survived: in London, in Ukraine, in Moscow and St. Petersburg. After closing the typography at Zabludov, Ivan Fedorov moved to Lvov where he founded the first typography in the Ukraine. In 1574 he printed the first Ukrainian exactly dated book, "Apostle" that was the reprint of the Moscow edition with some additions. The book is notable for the publisher's postscript written by Fedorov which provides information about the commencement of book printing in Russia and Ukraine. In 1574 he also printed the ABC book. Later Fedorov worked at the estate of Prince Konstantin Ostrozhski, Ostrog. In 1581 he printed the first complete Slavic Bible that is known as Ostrozhskaya Bibliya (Ostrog Bible) Fedorov was known as the ‘Muscovite printer’ or Iwan Moschus (Ivan the Muscovite). See below for the digitized Fedorov Psalter: http://www.nlr.ru/eng/line/psaltyr/