// Вестник сектора древнерусского искусства / отв. ред. А.Л. Баталов. №2. 2020. С. 112–128. ISSN 2658-543X The article describes the now-lost minuscule codex, three fragments of which are kept in the collections of Paris and Moscow. The... more
// Вестник сектора древнерусского искусства / отв. ред. А.Л. Баталов. №2. 2020. С. 112–128. ISSN 2658-543X The article describes the now-lost minuscule codex, three fragments of which are kept in the collections of Paris and Moscow. The handwriting of ‘tipo Anastasio’ and transitional features in decoration allow us to date the partially reconstructed codex to the late 9th – early 10th centuries. So the previously unknown fragment of the ‘Finding of the Holy Cross and nails’ of Menander the Protector, which was identified in Mosq. Syn gr. 73 belongs to the earliest copies of this text.
The aim of this paper is both to provide a selected collection of Old Turkic realia from the fragments of the Byzantine historian Menander Protector and to analyse some passages of the speeches delivered by Turkic rulers contained in his... more
The aim of this paper is both to provide a selected collection of Old Turkic realia from the fragments of the Byzantine historian Menander Protector and to analyse some passages of the speeches delivered by Turkic rulers contained in his work by comparing them with parallels in the Orkhon inscriptions.
