Lexicographically undescribed words from the oldest Russian manuscript of the “Ladder” by St. John Climacus
... historical lexicography. The principal research method employed is linguotextual analysis.
By comparing the lexical composition of the manuscript with the evidence provided by Old Church Slavonic dictionaries and historical dictionaries of the Russian language, the author identified 391 lexemes that had not previously been recorded in historical lexicography. The manuscript’s vocabulary was also compared with that of other manuscripts of the Preslav translation dating from the thirteenth and fourteenth ...
