Apostolus christinopolitanus from the 12th century: Manuscript history and their dialectal features

Abstract

© 2020, Universidad del Zulia. All rights reserved. The article presents the research of an Old Russian copy of Apostolos (The Apostolus Christinopolitanus from the 12th century, The Lviv Historical Museum of Ukraine). This article describes the manuscript history, orthographic systems, phonetic features. The study presents an analysis of regional characteristics of The Apostolus Christinopolitanus, which confirm its Galicia-Volyn origin. Despite the lingering ecclesiastical tradition, the book manuscript contains a large number of Eastern Slavic dialect elements. The linguistic parameters of the codex were analyzed for the first time. The Apostolus Christinopolitanus may have been the primary source for the Old Russian literary language of the 12th-14th centuries.