Ohijenko Ivan (2 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo (23 cm), 300 pp. Publisher's original wrappers (wrappers slightly stained and rubbed at the extremities). Text in Ukrainian. Metropolitan Ilarion (secular name Ivan Ohienko, 1882-1972) was a Ukrainian Orthodox bishop, linguist, and historian; in the early 1930s he taught at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology at the University of Warsaw. This work, The Beginning of the Alphabet and Literary Language among the Slavs, is a comprehensive study of the introduction of alphabets and the establishment of literary languages among the Slavic peoples. The first, introductory part presents a general history of alphabets. The second part is devoted to the genesis of the Glagolitic alphabet, its development, and Glagolitic paleography. The third part provides a detailed history of the Cyrillic alphabet. The fourth and fifth parts examine the development of the Church Slavonic literary language. The work is richly illustrated with 75 facsimiles of early manuscripts and inscriptions, providing visual documentation of the historical evolution of Slavic writing systems.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 2 volumes in one, 8vo (25 cm), 520 pp; 192 pp. Publisher's original wrappers (untrimmed and uncut as issued, wrappers stained and frayed at the extremities, duplicate stamp of the National Library of Poland). Text in Ukrainian. Metropolitan Ilarion (secular name Ivan Ohienko, 1882-1972) was a Ukrainian Orthodox bishop, linguist, and historian; in the early 1930s he taught at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology at the University of Warsaw. This work, The Ukrainian Literary Language of the 16th Century and the Krekhiv Apostolos (1560s), represents his principal contribution to Ukrainian linguistics. The first part is devoted to the history of Bible translation into Ukrainian. The second part describes the Krekhiv Apostolos, a manuscript translation into Ukrainian of portions of the Radziwi?? Bible (the Polish Protestant Bible published in Brest in 1563). The third and central part consists of a detailed philological analysis of the Krekhiv Apostolos. The second volume contains the fourth part, a dictionary of the 16th-century Ukrainian literary language, compiled on the basis of the linguistic material of the Krekhiv Apostolos.