About 700 new entries were successfully included in the VERSIONES SLAVICAE database. The database development was resumed in 2018 by Yavor Miltenov at the Institute for Bulgarian Language as part of a project of the Department for History of the Bulgarian Language. In addition to inclusion of new texts, by the end of 2020 a complete editing of almost all records was carried out, beginnings of the Slavonic texts were corrected according to the Old Bulgarian orthography, and
about 400 already cataloged texts were supplemented with new data.

Until recently one of the useful and very handy functions of the Versiones slavicae database was the direct link to Pinakes – each BHG and CPG reference number led from our database to the corresponding text on the web-page of our French colleagues. Not long ago they improved their site and changed (among other things) its appearance and the search options. Now Pinakes looks even better and is more flexible for the users, but unfortunately these changes broke all the automatic links between the two databases. They assured us the renovation was still in progress and in several months it should be possible to restore the connection. Until then, we ask all the users of Versiones slavicae to be patient and to try the new search options in Pinakes themselves!

A two-day workshop with the title “ATTEMT – Approaches To The Editing of texts with a Miltilingual Tradition” will be held on 19-20 December in London. The discussions will be focused on issues from the participants’ practice and experience with texts which have multiple versions (translations, redactions, sources) in another tradition – Greek, Slavonic, Arabic, Armenian, Syriac.

The workshop was organized by King’s College London and KULeuven.

The programme and a link to the abstracts can be found here, more information – here.

The participants: