A Unique Copy of Alphabetum Russarum, Printed in Stockholm by Peter van Selow

Figures & data

Figure 1. (left): The “title page” of the Alphabetum Russarum. (right): Verso of fol. [1].⁷

Figure 3. The first page of the handwritten appendix.

Figure 4. Pp. [2]–[3] of the handwritten appendix.

Figure 5. Page [4] of the handwritten appendix.

Figure 2. Fol. [2] r-v of the Alphabetum Russarum.

Figure 6. “Characteres linguæ Rutenicæ” according to Olearius (1656, 280).

Table 1. Pronunciation of Russian sibilants (only hand A; for corrections by hand B, see below)

R.	Pol.
Ж	ż	j. Gall[icum].
S	ź. vel ś.
З	z.	ζ Gr[aecum] z. Gall[icum].
Ц	c	z. Germ[anicum]
Ч	ć.	c. Ital[icum] ante e. & i. cz sive tsch. Germ[anicum].
Ш	sz.	sch Germ[anicum]
Щ	cż	tsch. Germ[anicum] schtsch. ßcża^27
С	S. Pol.	σ Graec[um]

Olearius, Adam. 1656. Vermehrte Newe Beschreibung Der Muscowitischen und Persischen Reyse […]. 2nd ed. Schleßwig: Johan Holwein.

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