The Fifth Zagrebin Readings
12-13 November 2009, Saint Petersburg,
the National Library of Russia


National Library of Russia
Committee for External Relations of the Saint Petersburg City Government
Consulate General of the Great Britain in Saint Petersburg
Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Saint Petersburg
Consulate General of Greece in Saint Petersburg

Programme

12 November 2009, Thursday
Main Conference Hall,
18, Sadovaya Street,
National Library of Russia

9.00 - 10.00 Registration

10.00 - 10.50 OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE

Vladimir N. Zaytsev, Director General of the National Library of Russia, Saint Petersburg
Alexander V. Prokhorenko, Chairman of the Committee for External Relations of the Saint Petersburg City Government
Dimitry Yurevich, Archpriest, Academic Vice-rector, Head of the Bible Department at the St. Petersburg Theological Academy
William Elliott, Consul General of the Consulate General of the Great Britain in Saint Petersburg
Peter Shaller, Consul General of the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Saint Petersburg
Antonia Katzourou, Consul General of the Consulate General of Greece in Saint Petersburg

10.50 - 12.00 Plenary Session:

CODEX SINAITICUS: HISTORY, SIGNIFICANCE, RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION ISSUES

Moderators: Ekaterina V. Krushelnitskaya (Russia),
Heinz Miklas (Austria)

10.50 - 11.10
Archbishop Damianos (Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai, Egypt)
The Shepherd of Hermas and its Inclusion in Codex Sinaiticus

11.10 - 11.30
Juan Garcés (London, Great Britain)
The Codex Sinaiticus Project and the Future of Digital Manuscripts Surrogates (See the abstract)

11.30 - 11.50
Ulrich Johannes Schneider (Leipzig, Germany)
The Virtual Edition of the Codex Sinaiticus as a Milestone of Online Manuscript Publishing

11.50 - 12.00 Discussion

12.00 - 12.30 Coffee Break

12.30 - 12.50
Gavin Moorhead (London, Great Britain)
From Parchment to Pixel: Preparing for the Journey to Cyberspace (See the abstract)

12.50 - 13.10
Zeki Mustafa Dogan, Alfred Scharsky (Leipzig, Germany)
Organizing Manpower and Technical Resources for the Codex Sinaiticus Project

13.10 - 13.30
Kent Harold Richards (Atlanta, GA, USA)
Transformed Social and Intellectual Dimensions of the Codex Sinaiticus Project (See the abstract)

13.30 - 13.50
Hugh Houghton (Atlanta, GA, USA)
The Electronic Transcription of the Codex Sinaiticus (See the abstract)

13.50 - 14.00 Discussion

14.00 - 15.00 Lunch

15.00 - 16.30 Plenary Session (continued):
CODEX SINAITICUS: HISTORY, SIGNIFICANCE, RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION ISSUES

Moderators: Victor A. Baranov (Russia),
Zh. L. Levshina (Russia)

15.00 - 15.20
Nikolaos Fyssas (Sinai, Egypt)
On the Recent History of Codex Sinaiticus: Insights from the Sinai Archives

15.20 - 15.40
Anatolij A. Alexeev (St. Petersburg, Russia)
Codex Sinaiticus and Scripture Text

15.40 - 16.00
Anna V. Zakharova (Moscow, Russia)
History of the Acquisition of the Sinai Bible by the Russian Government in the Context of Recent Findings from the Russian Archives

16.00 - 16.20
Igor P. Medvedev (St. Petersburg, Russia)
A Tragicomic Story of the Proclamation of the Codex Sinaiticus as a Forgery (See the abstract)

16.20 - 16.30 Discussion

16.30 - 17.00 Coffee Break

17.00 - 18.30 CULTURAL HERITAGE OF SINAI: PRESERVATION AND RESEARCH

Moderators: Tatjana I. Afanasjeva (Russia),
Juan Garcés (Great Britain)

17.00 - 17.20
Panayotis Nicolopulos (Athens, Greece)
The Tradition of the Text of the New Fragments of the Codex Sinaiticus at the Monastery of Saint Catherine Compared with the Text of Earlier and Contemporary Papyri and Manuscripts

17.20 - 17.40
Scot McKendrick (London, Great Britain)
The British Library's Collection of Greek Manuscripts and the Greek Manuscript Digitization Project (See the abstract)

17.40 - 18.00
Irina N. Lebedeva (St. Petersburg, Russia)
V. N. Beneshevich and the Greek Manuscripts of Saint Catherine's Monastery on Sinai

18.00 - 18.20
Svetlana O. Vialova (St. Petersburg, Russia)
The Manuscripts from the Sinai Monastery in the Collections of the National Library of Russia

18.20 - 18.30 Discussion

13 November, Friday
18, Sadovaya Street,
National Library of Russia

10.00 - 11.30 SINAI MANUSCRIPTS IN GREEK AND MIDDLE-EASTERN LANGUAGES
Main Conference Hall

Moderators: Anna V. Zakharova (Russia),
Javor Miltenov (Bulgaria)

10.00 - 10.20
Boris L. Fonkich (Moscow, Russia)
On the Question of the Dating of Greek Majuscule Manuscripts from the 4th-10th Centuries

10.20 - 10.40
Roman N. Krivko (Moscow, Russia)
Sinai Hymnographic Manuscripts in the History of Byzantine Worship Service Poetry (See the abstract)

10.40 - 11.00
Kirill A. Maximovich (Moscow, Russia)
Nikon of the Black Mountain's Writings (11th cent.) in the Codex Sinaiticus Graecus 441: Research and Publication Problems (See the abstract)

11.00 - 11.20
Boris I. Zajkovskij (St. Petersburg, Russia)
Arabic Manuscripts of Nikon of the Black Mountain's Writings in the Manuscript Collections of St.-Petersburg

11.20 - 11.30 Discussion

11.30 - 11.50 Coffee Break

11.50 - 13.00 ST. CATHERINE'S MONASTERY OF MOUNT SINAI AND THE SLAVIC WRITTEN TRADITION
Main Conference Hall

Moderators: Ulrich Johannes Schneider (Germany),
Ekaterina V. Krushelnitskaya (Russia)

11.50 - 12.10
Heinz Miklas (Vienna, Austria)
Editing the Glagolitic Inedita of Mount Sinai (part I) (See the abstract)

12.10 - 12.30
Melanie Gau (Vienna, Austria)
Editing the Glagolitic Inedita of Mount Sinai (part II) (See the abstract)

12.30 - 12.50
Tatjana Afanasjeva (St. Petersburg, Russia)
Prayers for Rain in the Sinai Evchology and Slavonic Service Books of the 14th-16th Centuries.

12.50 - 13.00 Discussion

13.00 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 16.30 SECTION MEETINGS

Section 1: ST. CATHERINE'S MONASTERY OF MOUNT SINAI AND THE SLAVIC WRITTEN TRADITION (continued)
Main Conference Hall

Moderators: Zhanna L. Levshina (Russia),
Roman N. Krivko (Russia; Germany)

14.00 - 14.20
Anatolij A. Turilov (Moscow, Russia)
On the question of Russian Book Writing on Mount Sinai in the 12th-13th centt. and Palestina (the Sinai copy of Pandects by Nikon of the Black Mountain and the oldest manuscripts containing the life story of Savva the Saint

14.20 - 14.40
Javor Miltenov (Sophia, Bulgaria)
"Sinaitic Palimpsest": Textual and Language Observations

14.40 - 15.00
Alexej A. Alexeev (St. Petersburg, Russia)
The Texts of the Sinai Lives of the Holy Fathers: Exempla Genre Stories in Medieval Literature

15.00 - 15.20
Irina V. Fiodorova (St. Petersburg, Russia)
"The Story about St. Mount Sinai" — a Little Known Monument of the Old Russian Literature

15.20 - 15.40
Nadezhda P. Chesnokova ( Moscow, Russia)
Images of Mt. Sinai in the Moscow Kremlin (last quarter of the 17th cent.) (See the abstract)

15.40 - 15.50 Discussion

15.50 - 16.10 Coffee Break

Section 2: DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES WHEN STUDYING THE MANUSCRIPT HERITAGE
Small Conference Hall

Moderators: Melanie Gau (Austria),
Boris I. Zajkovskij (Russia

14.00 - 14.20
Victor A. Baranov (Izhevsk, Russia)
Digital Collections of the Ancient and Medieval Slavonic Manuscripts on the Portal "Manuscript": Functional Possibilities

14.20 - 14.40
Victor A. Baranov, Tatjana V. Kokorina (Izhevsk, Russia)
Universal Coding of Slavonic Alphabets: Standard and Specific Ranges (See the abstract)

14.40 -15.00
Leander Seige (Leipzig, Germany)
Running and Protecting a Website for a World Wide Audience

15.00 - 15.20
Martin Lettner (Vienna, Austria)
Digital Image Acquisition and Analysis of the Glagolitic Manuscripts of Sinai (See the abstract)

15.20 - 15.40
Manfred Schreiner (Vienna, Austria)
Material Analysis of the Glagolitic Manuscripts of Sinai (See the abstract)

15.40 - 15.50 Discussion

15.50 - 16.10 Coffee Break

16.10 - 16.30 Final Discussion and Conclusions.
Main Conference Hall

16.30 - 17.00 PRESENTATION OF THE "CODEX SINAITICUS" WEBSITE FOR THE PRESS
Korff Hall, 18, Sadovaya St.

Damianos, Archbishop of Sinai, Pharan, and Raithou
Juan Garcés, Manager of the Greek Manuscripts Digitization Project at the British Library
Ulrich Johannes Schneider, Director of Leipzig University Library
Ekaterina V. Krushelnitskaya, Head of the Old Russian collections of the Department of Manuscripts at the National Library of Russia

17.00 - 17.30 OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION "THE CODEX SINAITICUS AND THE MANUSCRIPTS OF SINAI IN THE COLLECTIONS OF THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF RUSSIA" INCLUDING A PRESENTATION OF ITS ON-LINE VERSION
Korf Hall, 18, Sadovaya St.

17.30 - 18.30 TOUR OF THE EXHIBITION FOR GUESTS
Department of Manuscripts, 18, Sadovaya St.

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