Ob’shtee zhitie

This feature, "ОБЬЩЕѤ ЖИТИѤ" [Ob'shtee zhitie], provides a list of ongoing projects and recent publications of scholars in the field of Early Slavic studies, arranged alphabetically by the country in which they work. Represented in this issue are reports from Canada, Great Britain, Hungary, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Romania, the Soviet Union, the United States of America, and Yugoslavia.In this feature, scholars have submitted lists of their publications or announced current projects underway. William R. Veder's report (82-84), however, also includes "Notes on an Archaeographic Expedition to Leningrad and Moscow (19 APr - 26 May 1982)." There are interesting editorial comments in a number of the entries and the two institutional reports concern access to the repositories' manuscripts. Regarding the Lenin Library (86): "The 'Literaturnaia gazeta' of 15 Sept 1982 contained a letter to the editors ... voicing serious concern with the effects of work in progress in the new metro-station 'Borovickaia' on the Pashkov House, where the Manuscript department is housed in one of the wings. If the Pashkov house were to suffer damage and need extensive repairs, the consequences for work on the manuscripts would be as serious as the recent 1 1/2 years' closure." The report from the State Historical Museum indicates that it will be closed for extensive renovation for as many as three years (86)

Dielo k”nizh’noie: Results and Tasks of Research on East Slavic Early Printed Books and Slavic Manuscripts of Local Redactions in the Northeastern Part of Hungary

Ojtozi describes the state of research on liturgical books used by the Uniates in Hungary after 1646. She focuses on books in the Church Slavonic language that were imported from abroad, mainly from East Slavic lands, due to a lack of Cyrillic typography in Hungary. She outlines the research already performed on these books and proposes plans for future work, such as collecting all such books into secure archives and publishing a descriptive catalogue of these books. Copies of pages from early printed books are reproduced on pages 33-38. Also included is a list of "Slavic Manuscripts of the University of Debrecen Library" (39)