Description
The present text collection comprises printed Church Slavonic works from the Kirchenslavica Digital collection of the Berlin State Library. It enables a systematic analysis of historical texts published between 1641 and 1885, with the majority of works printed in Moscow. The collection covers a variety of genres, ranging from theological treatises to liturgical texts, thus offering a broad thematic scope.
The Kirillova kniga (1885/1644) accounts for the largest share, comprising 40.47% of the entries, while the Učitelnoe evangelie (1652), at 4.94%, represents the smallest share. Medium-sized works, such as the Psaltir’ ryfmotvornym slogi (1680, Moscow) with 18.58% and the Poučenija Knigi Svjatago Efrema (1647, Moscow) with 11.78%, complement the collection. Additional texts include the Prolog, pervaja polovina (1641, Moscow) with 11.06%, the Služebnik (1655, Moscow) with 7.53%, and the Kniga o věrě edinoj istinnoj pravoslavnoj (1785, Grodno) with 7.06%, the only work in the collection not printed in Moscow.
The collection is characterized by a strong focus on Moscow as the primary place of publication and presents a differentiated quantitative structure, facilitating both diachronic and synchronic studies of East Slavic written culture. (Further Information: https://slavistik-portal.de/corphub.html)