Lexicographically undescribed words from the oldest Russian manuscript of the “Ladder” by St. John Climacus
... 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 centuries. This comparison made it possible to distinguish lexemes common to all manuscripts (226), lexemes replaced in South Slavic versions (84), lexemes replaced in East Slavic versions (55), and ...
