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Volume 25 June 2009

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Director’s Desk – Page 2

International Conference on SaintsCyril and Methodius – Page 3

RCMSS and HRL News Notes –Pages 6, 7 and 8

HRL Journal – Electronic Calendars byCynthia Vakareliyska and BaptismalTexts by Margaret Dimitrova – Pages4, 5 and 8

INSIDE FEATURES

Renovation Complete: Thompson “Main” LibraryScheduled to Open Late Summer

Farewell to CMRS Colleague: PatSwinehart – Page 9

Donors, Gifts in Kind – Pages 10and 11

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The William Oxley Thompson Memo-rial Library – known also as the “MainLibrary” since it first opened in 1913 – isscheduled to reopen later this summer withthe actual dedication ceremony set for Sep-tember 24, 2009. Closed since September2006, the Library building has undergonea thorough transformation in order to servethe University in the 21st century.

The new Library promises to welcomestudents and faculty to beautiful,well-lit,functional and memorable learningspaces. The number of seats in the newbuilding is increased from about 850spaces (in 2006) to about 1,800 when the

building is reopened. Thespaces will provide stu-dents and scholars with awide variety of options towork in groups and indi-vidually in spacious read-ing rooms, group-studyrooms, atrium seating, andin the stacks tower itself.The building will be tho-roughly wired for accessto the Internet, with wire-less access throughout,supplemented by hard-wired computing stationsin key areas. The Library’scafé will be located nearthe new entrance just offNeil Avenue. This current renovation – thelargest academic building project in thehistory of The Ohio State University –will restore the beauty and functionalityof the original structure, and modernizeits infrastructure to add state-of-the artdigital resources and services to supportteaching and learning.

Architecturally, the Library building isfocused around the existing (but nowrenovated) book stacks tower, which willhouse about 1.25 million volumes of bothgeneral-collections as well as rare materials.Flanking the tower on both the east andwest sides are two stunning atrium spacesthat bring in natural light and serve to orientvisitors within the building.

Just off the historic front entrance, thenew “Jack and Jan Creighton” Special

Collections Reading Room can serve upto 30 simultaneous researchers of the fourspecial collections sharing its space: theHilandar Research Library, the “JeromeLawrence & Robert E. Lee Theatre ResearchInstitute and Library,” the “Rare Books andManuscripts Library,” and the “WilliamCharvat Collection of American Fiction.”Inside this state-of-the-art and pleasantreading room, the walls will be lined withreference books. Self-contained within thisspace and completely secure will be twosmaller rooms: one where specialized lec-tures and demonstrations using originalmaterials may be given, the other for useof the microforms and other media of thefour special collections.

Aerial View of Thompson Library shows the glass-enclosedWest Reading Room. The Library will have two main

entrances: one from Neil Avenue, and the other from the Oval

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Director’s Desk Dr. Predrag Matejic

Director: PREDRAG MATEJICAsst. Curator: Lyubomira

Parpulova-GribbleManaging Editor: HELENE SENECAL

Media Consultant: LORRAINE NETRETI‹ CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: ANDREW KIER

Hilandar Research LibraryResource Center for

Medieval Slavic StudiesThe Ohio State University

610 Ackerman RoadRoom 6065

Columbus, Ohio 43202-4500

Telephone: 614-292-0634Fax: 614-292-7859

E-mail: hilandar@osu.eduWebsite:

www.cmrs.osu.edu/rcmss/

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Over the past few weeks, I have hadseveral occasions to visit the Main Library

and observe thet r e m e n d o u sprogress of itsrenovation andhave come toeven more great-ly appreciate themany creative andpositive condi-tions as well aschanges that willawait us. Recent-

ly, the last such visit (and the very last torequire helmets and safety glasses!) wasone that was especially arranged for theHRL. Our Fulbright scholar from Bulgaria,Margaret Dimitrova, who herself was en-joying a brief visit by her daughter, Ivana,a junior at Princeton, was accompaniedby the HRL assistant curator, LyubomiraGribble and myself. Wes Boomgaarden,OSUL Preservation Officer, led the group.Wes has also been serving as Project Offi-cer during the entire Renovation Project.He generously gave of his time to makethis visit possible.

Everyone agreed that the differencesare remarkable and that the accom-modations for the Hilandar ResearchLibrary and the three other special col-lections are most impressive. In additionto seeing the Reading Room and nearbyExhibition Hall and Gallery, we also sawthe compact-shelving stacks area, wherethe bulk of the four special collections(more than 150,000 items) will be securelypreserved and housed. Adjacent to thereading room, we also saw the nearbyoffices for the curators and associate cura-tors, including the HRL personnel. TheHRL curator’s office will be“named” forAlex Machaskee, in recognition of hisgenerous support of the renovation.

The HRL will showcase six items thatwill be displayed for the opening exhibitin the new Exhibit Gallery and Hall. EntitledJourneys, this exhibit will feature treasuresfrom not only the four special collectionsthat are located in the Main Library, butthe other special collections of the OSULibraries that are housed elsewhere on

campus. This exhibit is scheduled to openin late August, a month earlier than ourofficial dedication and opening, which isscheduled for September 24, 2009.

We have had several recent visitors,most of whom arrived to do some addi-tional research before our move. Note:we will be closed to researchers until atleast late August and possibly even partof September.

Margaret Dimitrova, as already noted,arrived in mid-February on a three-monthFulbright scholarship. Arriving in earlyMarch for one week was Cynthia Vaka-reliyska (University of Oregon), whodescribes her research in a brief article onpage 4 of this issue of CMH. Jenn Spocktook advantage of a sabbatical from Eas-tern Kentucky University to spend themonth of April on her continuing researchof northern Russian monasteries, and lifewithin them.

Also visiting in April was Pasha (Mary-Allen Johnson), former assistant curatorof the HRL. Pasha has completed her MLSdegree at Louisiana State Universitywith distinction in December. Congratula-tions! For the time being, she hopes tofind a professional position near her homein New Orleans. She kindly spent a weekin the HRL helping to clarify and resolvevarious “backlogs” in anticipation of ourpacking and return to the Main Library.It was very good to see her again!

At the end of March, I had the greatand unexpected honor to be one of twelveindividuals invited by the Bulgarian Aca-demy of Sciences and the Bulgarian Na-tional Assembly to deliver a brief paperat the Bulgarian Parliament. This uniqueexperience was further enhanced by thevery productive discussions and meet-ings held at the University of Sofia andthe Bulgarian Academy of Sciences fol-lowing this conference. Finally, it was alsoan opportunity to see many colleaguesand friends, both Bulgarian and from else-where, whom I have had the privilege toget to know over the past 35 years.

Joe Branin, Director of the OSU Libra-ries, under whose leadership the magni-ficent renovation of the OSU Main Libra-ry took place, has announced that he will

soon be leaving Ohio State. We sincerelythank him for his work on behalf of theOSU Libraries, and especially for hissupport of the HRL and the other OSULspecial collections. We wish him successand happiness in his new position in SaudiArabia (see page 6).

We are sad to announce the passingof Professor Joseph Lynch (1943-2008)in late December. Dr. Lynch, the author ofseveral important books, was an especiallywell known and beloved professor ofmedieval social and religious history. Heserved as Associate Director and laterDirector of the Center for Medieval andRenaissance Studies in the crucial firstfifteen years of CMRS. From the time ofhis arrival to OSU in 1971, and in all hisvarious capacities, he supported the ori-ginal Hilandar Research Project (1969-1984) and then the HRL and RCMSS thatevolved from it. He will be greatly missed.

Finally, I also express our sincere con-dolences to the family of Dr. Nikola andCarol Kostich of Edina and North Oaks,Minnesota, whose generous bequest willcontinue to support not only HilandarMonastery, but the HRL and RCMSS, aswell. Please see additional information onpage 11 in this issue.

May their memories be eternal…

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International Conference on ‘The Cyrillo-Methodian Idea in Orthodox Christianity’

Predrag Matejic, Director of RCMSSand Curator of HRL, was one of twelveinvited speakers to the InternationalScholarly Conference “The Cyrillo-Methodian Idea in Orthodox Chris-tianity,” held in the Bulgarian NationalAssembly (Parliament) March 31 – April1, 2009. Dr. Matejic’s presentation,

entitled “The Life-Creating Strength ofthe Cyrillo-Methodian Idea” and givenin Bulgarian, was well received. Discus-sing the significance of the first letter ofthe alphabet created by St. Cyril to bringChristianity and literacy to the Slavs, thepresentation noted and elaborated uponthe theological significance of the Gla-golitic A.

The conference was sponsored bythe Bulgarian Parliament and the Bul-garian Academy of Sciences, and washeld simultaneously as part of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy.In addition to the conference itself, therewas a generous accompanying culturalprogram, including an exhibit openingat the Parliament, a luncheon receptionat the nearby Archeological Museum, aconcert of the world-famous “Ioan Kuku-zel” Orthodox Male Choir in the Cryptof the St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, and

a closing lavish reception at the NationalAssembly, which was hosted by GeorgiPirinski, President of the Bulgarian Na-tional Assembly.

In his opening statement, NationalAssembly Chairman Pirinski declared thework of St. Cyril and St. Methodius aninseparable part of the development ofEuropean civilization. He also noted thatthe creation of the Slavonic alphabet bythe two brothers made it possible for the“integration of Slavonic people to writtenEuropean civilization.” He spoke of Sts.Cyril and Methodius’ central theme that“all people are equal and have the rightto choose their own way of life.” Mr.Pirinski pointed out that it was preciselythis concept that led to unconditional sup-port for the brothers’ activities in Bulgariaand throughout the lands populated bythe south and eastern Slavs and evenamong certain non-Slavic communities,which today are part of Eastern OrthodoxChristianity.

Academician Nikola SÍÍÍÍÍbotinov, Pre-sident of the Bulgarian Academy ofSciences, followed with remarks thatstressed that the ideas of St. Cyril andSt. Methodius have been the symbol andinspiration for the Academy of Sciences.

He said that the founders of the BulgarianLiterary Society (an organization that pre-figured the beginning of the Academy),bore the name ”Cyril and Methodius”and in their draft statutes laid its task as“the spread of universal education andthe development of the Bulgarian writtenand oral language.”

This International Scholarly Confe-rence took place in parallel with the Ses-sion of the International Secretariat andCommittee Chairpersons of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy,which was also hosted by the NationalAssembly. Attendance, for security rea-sons, was severely limited, but did includeacademicians, members of parliament,church officials and dignitaries, as well aspresenters or commentators from Bulgaria,Greece, Russia, Italy, Great Britain, USA,Poland, Slovakia, and Serbia. Greetings tothe participants were sent by the Bulga-rian and Russian Patriarchs, Maxim andCyril.

The participants were also welcomedby the President of the Inter-ParliamentaryAssembly on Orthodoxy, Sergei Popov,and Teoharis Tsokas, Deputy Secretary-General of the International Assembly ofOrthodoxy.

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HRL JournalIn this feature, Cyrillic Manuscript Heritage asks researcherswho have used the Hilandar Research Library in the past year,in person or by mail, to describe their experiences and work.Scholars who wish to contribute items may send them to CMH.

By Cynthia Vakareliyska

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Editor’s Note: Cynthia Vakareliyska, Professor of Linguistics, Uni-versity of Oregon, conducted research in the HRL during the firstweek of March, 2009.

Cynthia Vakareliyska working with microfilm in the HRL

Slavic and GreekMedieval Calendars ofSaints Go Electronic Bulgarian Scholar

Receives Fulbright toExamine HRL Collection

By Margaret DimitrovaI spent a week at the Hilandar Research Library in March,

collecting texts of thirteenth-and fourteenth-century Bulgarianand Serbian calendars of saints of various genres (prologues,menaia, menologia) for inclusion in an electronic collation of

medieval Slavic and Greek calendars of saints that I am deve-loping under an ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowship. The searchprogram for the collation, which is designed by David Birnbaumat the University of Pittsburgh, allows searches of the corpusby manuscript recension, country of origin of the manuscript orsaint, genre, century, calendar date, and saint’s name, amongother features. The development and XML-markup of the data-base is a long-term project that I hope eventually will providesearchable versions of about 700 calendars, including at least150 unpublished Slavic calendars that I have collected fromarchives, and Slavic and Greek calendars from the publishedcollations of Archimandrite Spasskij and others. A preliminarysample corpus of seven related medieval Bulgarian menologiaand menaia that I have text-encoded so far is scheduled to beposted on the Internet together with the search program in spring2009, for free use. I am currently writing several articles on this

subgroup of calendars, which share an archaic Italo-GreekConstantinopolitan source.

I thank everyone at the Hilandar Research Library for all theirhelp and support during an idyllic week of browsing throughmicrofilms, and for the outstanding service the Library offers inproviding photocopies from microfilm, when it may do so withincopyright and prior permissions.

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This was not my first visit to the HRL and RCMSS. Tenyears ago, Adelina Angusheva and I first arrived in the US andin Columbus. It was then that I realized that the HRL andRCMSS offered everything that a researcher would need: in-valuable manuscript materials on microform from many librariesand, most importantly, from Mount Athos, where women scho-lars cannot go; secondary literature from different periods – themost recent publications as well as bibliophilic rarities of thenineteenth century, and from many places; and last but notleast, knowledgeable scholars whom one can consult on variousissues. They also became devoted friends who helped make theadjustment to a new place easy and pleasant.

Thus, after having worked for several years on two projects,I realized that I could not effectively continue without onceagain consulting HRL materials. I applied for and received a three-month Fulbright grant. Applying for such a grant had beensuggested to me years ago by M. A. (Pasha) Johnson, whohas used her knowledge and insight to continue to help me inmy research these past several years.

I arrived at OSU on February 12, 2009. My primary researchtask was to compare baptismal texts in medieval Slavonic manu-scripts in order to learn more about the practices and texts, andtheir perception and reception in the South Slavonic milieux ascompared to the Byzantine originals. This research was a con-tinuation of my study of pre-baptismal prayers and rites, aboutwhich I had earlier consulted HRL resources. Although thechanges in the liturgical directions in the baptismal rite hadbeen elucidated by A. Almazov in 1884, the history of thetranslations of the prayers and of their dissemination has notyet been the focus of scholarship.

Thanks to HRL’s rich collection of manuscripts on micro-films written in different places within Slavia Orthodoxa, whichI compared with materials I had collected mostly in Bulgaria and

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HRL Assistant Curator Lyubomira Gribble,graduate student Ashley Tevis and Margaret Dimitrova

examine the “Joshua Scrolls”

for short periods in Russia and Romania,I managed to outline three general patternsof baptismal rites. The first of these wasan early Slavonic version, which was po-ssibly based on a ninth-century translationfrom the Greek and is now reflected in afew manuscripts. It was later revised twiceas two different translations in the four-teenth century: a version from MountAthos and a Russian version. The latterversion is likely the Baptismal Rite com-position of Cyprian, the Bulgarian by originMetropolitan of Kiev and all Russia. Still,the opportunity of working with Saratov1292 manuscript in the HRL showed methat the archaic translation of the Baptis-mal Rite was also later copied in 16th-century Russia with the title “Trebnik ofMetropolitan Cyprian.” His version ofthe Rite was reproduced with only minorchanges in some 17th-century East Slavo-nic printed Trebniks.

In 17th-century Bulgarian scriptoria,three types of the Baptismal rite werecopied: an exact reproduction of Venetianeditions; a slightly revised version of itknown to me from manuscripts producedin AdÓar, Karlovo, and Kuklen (e.g., Hilan-dar 170 and 629); and a version close toMetropolitan Cyprian’s example knownto me from manuscripts produced in theStara Planina monasteries.

During my work at RCMSS and theHRL, I combined my research of manu-script Prayer Books with a study of thesecondary literature on the attitudes ofthe Church towards childbirth and thepostnatal period. I was thus able to con-textualize Slavonic and Byzantine materialsin terms of Jewish and West-Europeanideas, texts, and practices. With the assis-tance and encouragement of Dr. Lyubo-mira Parpulova-Gribble, I utilized the hugecollection of albums and facsimile editionsin the HRL to collect visual materials thatI used in lectures I was invited to give atthe University of Pittsburg and BowlingGreen University. I also compiled a smalldata-base of images related to childbirth,relations between mother and child, andwomen’s lives in the Middle Ages, whichI plan to incorporate in my universitycourse on women’s daily life at the Uni-versity of Sofia.

Still, my primary task was to examinemanuscripts on microforms kept in the

HRL: such a rich collection is unique andthis is virtually a “holy” place for a Slavicmedievalist. Thus, working with Trebniks,I also discovered a cycle of five prayersascribed to St. Tryphon “against agricul-tural insects and pests.” I had neverbefore seen such a collection of texts con-nected with this saint and I asked myselfwhy such a textual cycle was included ina manuscript that one could assume waswritten in Hilandar Monastery. I sus-pected that there might have been a specialchapel dedicated to St. Tryphon in themonastery. Dr. Matejic suggested someliterature and I found evidence that, indeed,before 1620 there was a chapel dedicatedto St. Tryphon in a monastery garden nearthe main entrance!

The second majorproject for which I hadneed of HRL materialswas related to my workon an edition of a tran-slation of a late “Catenawith Commentaries onthe Song of Songs.” Iused the microform re-sources to compareNew Testament quota-tions (which are nume-rous and long in thecommentary by Theo-doret of Cyrrhus) withEvangelia and Apos-tolus Slavonic manu-scripts. Armed with the secondaryliterature available to me, I juxtaposedcertain published texts and diagnosticreadings with Hilandar manuscripts 9, 11,13, 18, Saratov 26 and 27 (all Evangelia),with Hilandar 47, 48, and Saratov 1197 (Apo-stolus manuscripts), and with the quota-tions in the catena. In the sources studiedthere are divergences and I found in thesemanuscripts exact counterparts of certainvariants in the catena, which I had pre-viously considered to be simply the indi-vidual choices of the catena’s translator.While making this comparison, I collectedmore examples showing that the late re-dactions of the New Testament were madeagainst Greek versions other than thosefrom which the earlier translations weremade.

Again, as in the case of the baptismaltexts, I combined my research of the pri-mary sources with research on the secon-dary literature, trying to learn more about

the Song of Songs and its interpretationsin the Jewish and West-European tradi-tions and generally on Late Antiquity andMedieval commentary literature. Thus, Imanaged to finalize a paper on the commen-taries on the Song of Songs in medievalSlavonic manuscripts viewed in a widercontext.

And finally, in my country I am alsoinvolved in a project supported by theBulgarian Ministry of Education that hasas its goal the collection and study of allcopies of the History of the Bulgarianswritten in 1762 by Paisii, a Bulgarian monk,at Hilandar Monastery. The project is dedi-cated to its 250th anniversary (in 2012). Iwas aware of three copies of Paisii’s His-

tory kept on microform in the HRL (copiesof which were given to our working group).I plan to give a paper on one of them atthe annual conference of our Departmentof Cyrillo-Methodian studies at the Uni-versity of Sofia. My joy was even greaterwhen Dr. Matejic showed me an originalCyrillic manuscript kept in HRL under callnumber SPEC.OSU.HRL.SMS.1, which isprobably a copy of the so-called Rila Revi-sion of Paisii’s History. In support of ourproject, he presented an excellent DVDcolor copy of this manuscript to our work-ing group while in Bulgaria recently.

What I particularly like about the HRL/RCMSS is that it is a vibrant place whereone can meet other scholars, universityprofessors, and students with whom onecan exchange ideas. I was fortunate duringmy stay to spend some time with Dr. Va-kareliyska, Dr. Spock, and M. A. Johnson.

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RCMSS & HRL News Notes:

Joseph J. Branin, Director of Librariesat OSUL since 2000, recently announcedthat he has accepted the position of found-

ing Director ofthe Library andMuseum for theKing AbdullahUniversity ofScience andTe c h n o l o g y(KAUST) inSaudi Arabia.His wife, Anita,has also accepteda position withthe University.King Abdullah

University of Science and Technology willbe a graduate-level research universityrecruiting students and staff around theworld and dedicated to inspiring a newage of scientific achievement in the King-dom that will also benefit the region andthe world. The seaside campus is north ofJeddah on the Red Sea. As head of OSULibraries, Joe oversaw the $109 million re-novation of the William Oxley ThompsonMemorial Library, which will reopenin September. Joe will remain as OSULDirector through the end of August 2009.A national search will be conducted forhis successor.

OSUL Director Departs

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DSEELL AnnouncesNew Chair

Helena Goscilo, of the University ofPittsburgh, has accepted the position ofProfessor of Russian and Slavic Literatureand Chair of the Department of Slavic andEast European Languages and Literaturesat The Ohio State University.

Dr. Goscilo is one of the most gifted,active, and prolific scholars working todayin nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-firstcentury Russian and Polish literature, folk-lore, cultural studies, and gender studies.She is the author of 18 books, includingthe three monographs Lives in Transit:

Recent Russian Women’s Writing (1995),Dehexing Sex: Russian Womanhood du-ring and after Glasnost (1996), and TNT:The Explosive World of Tat’iana Tolsta-ya’s Fiction (1996; published in Russian,2000), and 15 scholarly translations andanthologies. She has also published morethan 75 articles and book chapters, 63 ency-clopedia entries, some 30 book reviews,and 11 short translations (apart from thosein books published under her editorship).She has been the editor or co-editor offive special issues of journals, including“Resent, Reassess, and Reinvent: TheThree R’s of Post-Soviet Cinema” in Slavicand East European Journal, Summer 2007,as well as an article cluster “New Russians”in Russian Review in 2003. Dr. Goscilo hasreceived numerous awards and honors, in-cluding six IREX grants, a two-year Nation-al Council for Soviet and East EuropeanResearch Fellowship, a two-year National

HumanitiesCenter Fel-lowship, andmany others.In 1997, shereceived theOutstandingAchievementAward in Sla-vic Studies(Associationof Women inSlavic Stu-

dies). In 1999, she was recognized as Dis-tinguished Alumna of the Russian & EastEuropean Institute at Indiana University.In 2000, she was identified by Universityof Pittsburgh undergraduates as one ofthe professors to have significantly af-fected students’ academic life.

DSEELL is proud to have Dr. Goscilojoin the faculty, and looks forward to herleadership.

New Director for“Slavic Center”

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Helena Goscilo

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We also take this opportunity to sincerelythank Dr. Daniel E. Collins, outgoing DSEELLchair, for his selfless service and support ofthe HRL and RCMSS these past several years.

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Yana Hashamova, associate professorin the Department of Slavic and East Euro-pean Languages and Literature, has beennamed Director of the Center for Slavic andEast European Studies (CSEES). CSEESpromotes the study, knowledge, and teach-ing of the East European and Eurasian re-gions of the world. CSEES supports andfosters inter-disciplinaryresearch, de-velops newc o u r s e s ,sponsors lec-tures, admini-sters a Slavic& East Euro-pean studiesmasters pro-gram, fostersthe growth oflanguage studies, and awards Foreign Lan-guage and Area Studies Fellowships to OSUgraduate students, among numerous other acti-vities. CSEES, a National Resource Center, isfederally funded.

Dr. Hashamova has served as actingdirector for the past year, and has provi-ded expertise and guidance to its growinglist of accomplishments. She has been in-tegral in building the annual Midwest Sla-vic Conference to record numbers and wasrecently elected President of the MidwestSlavic Association. Dr. Hashamova begana quarterly CSEES Discussion Group andled 72 students from the International Af-fairs Scholars program to Bulgaria. Shecontinues to establish new contacts withuniversities and organizations in the Bal-kan region to increase opportunities forOSU students and scholars abroad.

The HRL and RCMSS have enjoyed aclose working relationship with the SlavicCenter for the past 25 years. We look for-ward to continuing this close and mutual-ly beneficial collaboration with the SlavicCenter under Dr. Hashamova’s direction.

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Charles E. (Chuck) Gribble, the long-est serving professor in the Departmentof Slavic and East European Languagesand Literatures recently celebrated his34th Anniversary as a member of the OSUSlavic Department. Dr. Gribble has beenteaching since 1961 – first at Brandeis,then at Indiana University.

In 1966, hefounded Slavi-ca Publishers ,which quicklygrew to becomethe leading USspecialty pressfor Slavic andEast Europeanstudies. He hasbeen at TheOhio State Uni-

versity since 1975 and was promoted tohis current rank of Professor in 1989. Heserved as Chair of the Department from1990-1996 and as Graduate Studies Chairfor seven years.

Dr. Gribble is a prolific and highlyrespected scholar in Slavic Linguistics.He has recently completed a monographentitled The Forms of Russian. He is alsothe author of two standard textbooks, Rus-sian Root List with a Sketch of RussianWord Formation and Reading BulgarianThrough Russian. He has received awardsfrom the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences(Marin Drinov Award), AATSEEL (Distin-guished Contribution to the Profession),and Ohio State, among others.

Dr. Gribble has used the resources ofthe Hilandar Research Library for morethan 30 years. Since his arrival, he hasbeen a member of the Ohio State Advi-sory Council to the Resource Center forMedieval Slavic Studies. We are gratefulfor his steadfast and generous support,including that of materials from his perso-nal library, which enhance both the HRLand the Slavic and East European generalcollection of the OSU libraries.

Special AnniversaryCelebrated

On March 30, while in Sofia, Bulgaria,Predrag was invited to the presentationof the “Marin Drinov” Award to Aleksan-der Naumow, Professor of Slavonic Phi-lology of the Jagellonian University (Cra-cow, Poland) as well as at the Universityof Firenze (Italy). The “Marin DrinovMedal” is the highest distinction of theBulgarian Academy of Sciences that canbe awarded to a foreign scholar. Dr.Naumow, a well-known Slavic medieval-ist, is the author of numerous articles andmonographs, and a popular and respectedacademician, known for preparing futuregenerations of medievalists.

Dr. Naumow speaks several languagesfluently and has taught in several coun-tries, including in the United States. Aformer Summer Stipend recipient and re-searcher in the HRL, Dr. Naumow hasnot only been a constant supporter ofour mission and activities, but for the pasttwenty years he has been the RCMSSInternational Affiliate for Poland.

Aksiniia Dzhurova on December 2,2008 was conferred as a CorrespondingMember of the Bulgarian Academy ofSciences. Dr. Dzhurova is a well knownexpert on codicology and manuscript or-namentation. She is the author of morethan 25 books, many of which are con-sidered seminal works in scholarship.

Since 1986, Dr. Dzhurova has also beenDirector of the “Professor Ivan Duichev”Byzantino-Slavic Center, which is locatedin Sofia and affiliated with the “KlimentOhridski” University of Sofia. The centeris named in honor of Academician IvanDuichev and includes a specialized libraryof manuscripts and reference materials.It is recognized as one of the leading me-dieval Byzantino-Slavic research centersand libraries of the world. Under her lead-ership, the center has promoted coopera-tive work with several institutions andcountries, including the Vatican, Italy,Greece, Japan, Russia, Serbia and the U.S.An RCMSS international affiliate, whohas represented Bulgaria for a number ofyears, the HRL and RCMSS have enjoyed

a positive cooperative relationship withDr. Dzhurova and the “Duichev Center.”We include among our materials micro-films of the Slavic manuscripts of theDuichev Center.

We extend our heartfelt congratula-tions to both scholars with sincerestwishes for “Many Years”!

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ASEC ConferencePlanned for

OctoberThe Association for the Study of

Eastern Christian History and Culture,Inc. (ASEC) announces its third biennialconference to take place in Columbus,Ohio, October 1 to October 3, 2009 at thePfahl Conference Center at The Ohio StateUniversity. The theme of the conference,“Reform Movements in Eastern ChristianCulture: Renewal, Heresy, and Compro-mise” reflects its multi-disciplinary natureand covers a range of papers on EasternChristian topics from the medieval to themodern periods in the areas of Ukraine,Russia, Greece, Romania, France and theUnited States.

Scholars from as far afield as Canada,California and The Netherlands will pre-sent new research that crosses disciplines,regions, and periods in order to furtherour understanding of the multi-faceted andinterlocking cultures that comprise Eas-tern Christian societies. Andrew Kier, aPh.D. student in the OSU Departmentof Slavic and East European Languagesand Literatures, will be the only scholarrepresenting OSU at the conference. Hewill present a paper on four unusual heal-ing prayers/rituals in a medieval southSlavic trebnik (HM.SMS.178) focusingon the dichotomy between the canonicaland non-canonical elements within them.

Other papers on theology, literature,history and sociology will examine a va-riety of topics: the reforms of Peter Mo-hyla; prophecy and millenarianism in im-perial Russia; Orthodox identity in Greece,

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Nativity of Christ, Studenica Monastery,1313/1314, depicts a gesture of loving

kindness of the mother towards her childsource: Sima ,irkovi‹, Vojislav Kora‹,Gordana Babi‹. Studentica Monastery.Belgrade: Jugoslovenska revija, 1986

Conversations with them, during and afterwork in the HRL, broadened and enrichedmy understanding both of medieval Sla-vonic culture and current American uni-versity education. Also of importance, thetime spent with them created opportuni-ties to discuss and plan future collabora-tive research.

And finally, I am especially glad thatmy daughter, Ivana, was able to come fromPrinceton for a short visit during her springvacation so that she could finally see theHRL, a place that I love. After she sawthe audio-video presentation of thehistory of the Hilandar Monastery andthe Hilandar Research Project, she con-fessed that although she had heard a greatdeal about Hilandar from me, this presen-tation opened a new perspective in herunderstanding of Balkan culture. She wasimpressed and moved by the wonderfulworking atmosphere. She even preferredthe “medieval” working atmosphere in theHRL to other study areas while workingon her physics papers.

We were very happy to visit the MainLibrary in the process of its renovation.We were impressed by its more modern,spacious, light-filled atmosphere and openarchitecture. Moreover, we saw where thespecial collections will be preserved andkept. We also learned more about the new-est methods and leading technologies ofpreservation of valuable archival materi-als. We liked the idea for bronze plates withdifferent alphabets being placed in somefloors of the Library so that anyone enter-ing can get an impression of the diver-sity of human culture, human genius, lovefor knowledge, and desire to record andtransfer knowledge to future generationsby means of writing.

The results which I obtained duringmy research in HRL/RCMSS exceed whatI had originally planned to do. They willhelp me complete more than one projectin future years. I could say that my re-search was more than productive. Thisis due not only to the materials of greatvariety that are all located in one and thesame place and always at hand, but alsoto the inspiring atmosphere and the en-couraging and suggestive professionalconversations which I had with my col-leagues and friends there.

France, Russia, and the United States;issues of communities in exile, moral theo-logy, the Kievan Academy, reforms andrevivals in post-Soviet Russia, Romaniain the 1940’s, the changing image of (St.)Ivan the Terrible, and monastic reforms toname only a few of the subjects that willbe considered.

The conference will feature a keynotespeaker on Thursday evening, followedby two days of plenary session panels.ASEC is indebted to its co-sponsors atOSU for their work on, and support of, thisand previous conferences: The Center forSlavic and East European Studies, the Re-source Center for Medieval Slavic Studiesand the Hilandar Research Library, and theDepartment of Slavic and East EuropeanLanguages and Literatures. Registrationfor non-presenters is $10 at the door, andis waived for OSU faculty and students

The HRL was pleased to learn in earlyMay that Ms. Molly Carlile has beentransferred within the Preservation Officeto the position of Assistant Rare BooksConservator in the Conservation unit. Al-though her primary duty will be book con-servation, she will assist with all activi-ties related to special collections conser-vation.

Molly graduated from the formaltraining program in bookbinding andconservation at North Bennet StreetSchool in Boston in 1990, and had alsoworked at Harvard University, FarlowLibrary, as well as Harcourt Bindery inBoston. She was hired by the Preserva-tion Office in 1995 after spending four yearsin other civil service positions at OSU.Most recently, she had served as DigitalImaging Assistant.

Her new duties will make better use ofher true skills. She “looks forward to hav-ing the opportunity to put those skills touse.” Of course, the primary beneficiaryare the Special Collections, including theHilandar Research Library.

AssistantConservator for

Rare Books Named

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Editor’s Note: ASEC information submittedby Dr. Jenn Spock, Associate Professor ofHistory at Eastern Kentucky University (Rich-mond, Kentucky). She has been active in ASECsince its establishment. Currently, she is VicePresident of the Association, as well as itsPresident-Elect. She is also a series editor forEastern Christian Studies, which is a sub-series of Ohio Slavic Papers (OSU Centerfor Slavic and East European Studies and theDepartment of Slavic and East EuropeanLanguages and Literatures).

Dr. Spock’s research has typically focusedon Northern Russian monasteries, in parti-cular, Solovki, the subject of her 1999 Yale dis-sertation. She has made numerous researchtrips to the HRL (beginning in 1992), andmanages research visits several times a year.

with a current ID. For further information,please contact Russell Martin at his emailaddress: martinre@westminster.edu

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CMRS Colleague Retires: LooksForward to New Activities

Pat Swinehart taking care of businesson her last work day at CMRS

Patricia Swinehart, AdministrativeAssociate for the Center for Medievaland Renaissance Studies, looks forwardto a much anticipated retirement. She saidgoodbye to friends and colleagues onMarch 31, 2009.

An employee of The Ohio State Uni-versity for 27 years, Pat is extremelyknowledgeable about departmental pro-cedures, and her expertise will be missed.The Resource Center for Medieval SlavicStudies and the Center for Medieval andRenaissance Studies are linked by theirhistory as well as budgetary structure andthere is frequent interaction between the

two Centers. CMRS has always helpedRCMSS with the necessary, and oftencomplicated, budget-related bureaucracy.Always gracious with her time and know-ledge, Pat has already offered “that she isonly an email or phone call away,” shouldher services be required.

Pat began work as a Clerk-Typist 3 inJune of 1972 at the Air Force ROTC locatedon OSU’s main campus. At that time, civilservants took a typing test at an openexam. Today, there are almost never anyopen exams – proving how much harderit is to get a job on campus. Pat recallsthat several of the staff in AFROTC hadbeen on OSU’s campus the day riots broke

out and had spent a night or two lockedin the building, not daring to go outside.She noted that it was a “very differenttime.”

There were only two civilian jobs inthe office; all the others were Air Forceofficers and NCO’s. After two years, Patwas promoted to Secretary 1 (assistantto the commanding officer). She begantaking courses and completed an under-graduate degree in English, graduatingsumma cum laude in June of 1978. Patloved being in the ROTC building (Con-verse Hall) because it was next to the icerink, where she spent many happy lunch

hours practicingice skating. In fact,she confides thatshe met her hus-band ice dancing.They were marriedJanuary 1978, anddaughter Beth wasborn two years later.Back in those days,staff was not eligi-ble for family leaveso Pat’s choice wasto return to theoffice immediatelyor to quit and stayhome with her newbaby. Pat chose tostay home.

By the time her daughter was three,Pat decided a part-time job would beideal and, in June of 1983, had the goodfortune to find a position with the MeltonCenter for Jewish Studies. She worked therepart-time until moving to the College ofHumanities in 1997, where she became afull-time number-cruncher for then-DeanKermit Hall. Dean Hall clearly saw thatthe University was moving towards abusiness model, and was often requestingnew and revised data regarding enroll-ments, teaching loads, etc. Pat was alsofortunate to have been assigned to workclosely with Nick Howe (see also CMH11: 3) during her tenure in the college,

supporting him and his committee in theirreport on the benchmarks initiative. Inher “spare time,” Pat tended to the pro-curement needs of Humanities Informa-tion Systems and other data needs of thecentral office.

Pat was appointed the administrativeassociate to CMRS when that positionbecame available in August 2004. It was ahectic time because CMRS was packingto move into a new facility in Decem-ber. But, with the help of graduate assis-tants and then-Director Barbara Hana-walt, she managed to get the office readyand successfully relocate to CMRS’s cur-rent space in Dulles Hall. Richard FirthGreen was named Director of CMRS thefollowing year, and is still serving in thatcapacity. Reflecting back on her career at OhioState, Pat concludes: I have loved myUniversity career; OSU has been a grandplace to spend my work life. I have ex-perienced the joy of working with awide range of bright and caring people,faculty and staff, both within and out-side of the College of Humanities, andI have enjoyed the many opportunitiesavailable here. I shall miss my time andencounters with them all. But I am cer-tainly looking forward to putting up myfeet – or, in my case, to tending the garden,to trying to grow some new vegetables,and to reading a trashy novel just forfun. I also expect to spend more time inCincinnati, Ohio, home to my grand-children. It is almost like being youngagain – the possibilities seem endless.

Editor’s Note: We sincerely thank Pat forall the help she has given RCMSS over thepast years, and wish her joy and happinessin her retirment.

Taking over Pat’s duties will be JaredBoyd, the Office Manager for the OSU MeltonCenter for Jewish Studies. Jared will bedividing his time between CMRS and theMelton Center.

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Editor’s Note: Statistical information citedwas first published in an article by Wes Boom-gaarden, Preservation Officer for the Librar-ies, in the Winter 2009 edition of ¿Qué Pasa,OSU?

Just outside the “Jack and Jan Creigh-ton” Special Collections Reading Roomthere will be nine display cases of varioussizes, where all nine of the special collec-tions of the OSU Libraries can highlighttheir materials and mission. One of thesecases will typically be dedicated to theHilandar Research Library and itsmaterials and mission. And, nearby, therewill be a large, secure, and state-of-the-art Exhibit Gallery where major exhibitionswill be mounted on a rotating basis.

The staffs of the special collectionshave planned and worked for years tomake this move a success and to makethe future better for all of us. We look for-ward to improving our service to scholars,both now and for many decades to come.We anticipate even better days ahead aswe can now more easily and efficientlyshare our expertise, our resources andstrengths, promote our collections and,together, meet the challenges of the 21st

century and beyond.We invite all our readers at their first

convenient opportunity (after Septemberof this year) to come and visit the reno-vated, brighter, more welcoming and open,vastly different, enhanced William OxleyThompson “Main” Library.

L to R: Assistant HRL curator LyubomiraGribble, visiting Fulbright scholarMargaret Dimitrova, HRL Curator

Predrag Matejic, and Margaret’s daughter,Ivana Dimitrova, tour the almost completed“Special Collections” area of the library inMarch during Ivana’s spring break from

Princeton University

Francis ThomsonBELGIUM

Ivan BiliarskiMargaret DimitrovaAksiniia DzhurovaKlimentina Ivanova

Iskra Khristova-ShomovaKirilo-Metodievski Nauchen TsentÍÍÍÍÍr

Svetlana KuiumdzhievaAnisava MiltenovaTatiana Mostrova

Desislava NaidenovaAngel Nikolov

Svetlina NikolovaPirinka Penkova

Petko PetkovPreslavska Knizhovna Shkola

Tatiana SlavovaTsvetelin Stepanov

Mariana Tsibranska-KostovaBULGARIA

Rumjana PavlovaGERMANY

Adelina AngushevaGREAT BRITAIN

Evelina MinevaGREECE

Krasimir StanchevITALY

GiftsIn Kind

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Aleksander NaumowPOLAND

Dragiša Bojovi‹‹‹‹‹Miroljub Jokovi‹‹‹‹‹

Rajko Maksimovi‹‹‹‹‹Serbian Academy of Sciences

and ArtsSERBIA

Rajko Brki‹‹‹‹‹Daniel E. Collins

Charles E. GribbleBorivoje M. KarapandÓÓÓÓÓi‹‹‹‹‹V. Rev. Dr. Mateja MatejicAnna and Gregory Myers

Alex RabinovichJennifer SpockWilliam VederUNITED STATES

Recently donated to the Hilandar ResearchLibrary original Slavic manuscript of the

Apocalypsewith late Baroque ornamentation, V+71+III

leaves, dating to the end (?) of the XVIIIthcentury. Folio 1 recto is shown here.

Gift of A. Rabinovich.

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ContributionsTo The

HilandarEndowment FundWith sincerest appreciation theHRL and RCMSS acknowledge thefollowing individuals for their gen-erous support:

Sally Malobabic ArsenovicBenton Harbor, Michigan

Matching Gift: Whirlpool Foundation

John R. BarnsCamp Hill, Pennsylvania

Dr. and Mrs. Milosh BozanichSt. Cloud, Minnesota

Virginia BrownToronto, Canada

Milica Matejic BrustUpper Arlington, Ohio

Mihailo BudjevacUpper Arlington, Ohio

Daniel Enright CollinsColumbus, Ohio

William Timothy ElginColumbus, Ohio

Charles Gribble andLyubomira Parpulova Gribble

Powell, Ohio

Danica JekichJuliana D. Soldatovic

Washington D.C.

Dr. Janice Zunich KaticSchererville, Indiana

David Edward KosPickerington, Ohio

The Estate of Dr. Nikola and Carol Kostich

St. Paul, Minnesota

Michael and Barbara MalyakWest Seneca, New York

V. Rev. Dr. Mateja Matejicand Lyubica Matejic

Columbus, Ohio

Predrag Matejic andTatyana Nestorova-Matejic

Dublin, Ohio

Predrag MatejicDublin, Ohio

Vesna R. MeinertBridgeport, West Virginia

George and Nikki MotikaSummerfield, Florida

“In loving memory of son Philip”

Milan and Dragana OrbovichColumbus, Ohio

George and Gerry OstichBarberton, Ohio

Ray Radoslav SuputColumbus, Ohio

Cynthia VakareliyskaEugene, Oregon

Mitchell ZunichAmherst, Ohio

Dr. Nikola Kostich of Minnesota, awell-known pathologist, contacted theV. Rev. Dr. Mateja and Predrag Matejicin 2005, informing them that it was hisdesire and intent to leave bequests to afew organizations, including for Serbianorphans in Serbia, Hilandar Monasteryon Mount Athos, and the Resource Cen-ter for Medieval Slavic Studies at TheOhio State University.

In late December of 2008, we wereinformed by Father Proctor of Holy Tri-nity Orthodox Church in St. Paul, Minne-sota, that Dr. Kostich had passed, andthat, indeed, RCMSS was rememberedin the disposition of the estate. It wasthen that we also learned that Dr. Kostichhad been preceded in death by his wife,Carol, who passed away on Old Calen-dar Orthodox Christmas in 2008, just sixmonths before his own passing on July4. The generous bequest was from theirjoint estate.

Fr. Proctor, their local parish priest,was kind enough to forward informa-tion about the Kostich family to us. Itwas thus that we learned more aboutthem and their three adopted childrenand their own backgrounds, the grand-children, and other relatives. Dr. Nikolaand Carol Kostich were active in theircommunity and church, known for theirrefined sense of “justness,” and had aconsistent history of service to others,locally, nationally, and internationally.

We are honored and grateful at OhioState to have been considered amongthe worthy causes they chose to remem-ber with a gift to the “Hilandar Endow-ment Fund.” Their gift will continue tosupport the mission of RCMSS and theHRL in the many years to come.

Nikola andCarol Kostich

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Kostich nameplate on HRL Donor Plaque

“In memory of Father Anthony andPresbytera Marie Sarris”

“In memory of Father Anthony andPresbytera Marie Sarris”

“In memory of Father Anthony andPresbytera Marie Sarris”

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