Voloshchenko Stanislav, Okhrimenko Oleksandr

Ottawa and Bucharest Fragments of the Apostolus Christinopolitanus of the 12th Century

Abstract: This article updates the issue of identification and attribution of Cyrillic fragments of the Middle Ages using the example of the Apostolus Christinopolitanus of the 12th century. The purpose of the study is to fact-check two fragments that supposedly belong to the codex, and their attribution. The article’s methodology is built on the principles of scientific systematicity, integrity, objectivity, and historicism. During conducting the research, general scientific methods of analysis, synthesis, induction, and deduction were used; generalhistorical:chronological, problem-thematic, and archival heuristics, as wellas specific ones, which are used in the study of written sources. The textology methods contribute to identifying the content of fragments; the methods of palaeography and codicology indicate the inconsistency of the selected fragmentswith the Apostolus Christinopolitanus. The scientifi c novelty is that forthe fi rst time, the fact of belonging to the Apostolus Christinopolitanus of two fragments in Canada and Romania has been disproved, and thus their new attribution has been realized. Conclusions. On the example of two parchment fragments kept in Ottawa (Canada) and Bucharest (Romania), the issues of historical memory and the phenomenon of heritage attribution are raised. Identifications of the fragment from the Archive of Oleksandr Kolessa in Ottawa and the manuscript Ms. Sl. 790 from the Library of the Romanian Academy of Sciences, allowed experts Iraida Gerus-Tarnavetska, Iryna Matiash (Ottawa fragment), and Maria Korogodina (Bucharest fragment) to make conclusion that the manuscripts are parts of Apostolus Christinopolitanus of the 12th century. The research catches mistakes made by experts in describing these fragments and so falsifying the artefacts due to incorrect attribution, which is related to the identification of the Ottawa and Bucharest fragments with the Apostolus Christinopolitanus. The article proves that the claimed fragments are not part of the Apostolus Christinopolitanus and never belonged to it. A new attribution of the manuscripts shows that the Ottawa fragment is the folio 10 from the Buchach Gospel of the 13th century, and the Bucharest fragment is the Complete Apostol aprakos of the 12th-13th centuries.

Keywords: Apostolus Christinopolitanus, fragmentology, Cyrillic manuscripts, codicology, attribution, historical memory, falsification, Ukrainica, diaspora, Ottawa, Bucharest.

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• Voloshchenko Stanislav (Іndependent Researcher, Lviv, Ukraine, [email protected]) ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7081-5358
• Okhrimenko Oleksandr (Kyiv School of Economics, Kyiv, Ukraine, [email protected]) ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5646-4133

Cite:
Voloshchenko Stanislav (2024). Ottawa and Bucharest Fragments of the Apostolus Christinopolitanus of the 12th Century. Academic Papers of V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine, (71) 109-126. (In Ukrainan). doi: https://doi.org/10.15407/np.71.109

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