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English: Tracing of an eleventh-century Russian letter incised on birch bark.
The language is the Old Novgorod dialect of the Old East Slavic language. The alphabet is ancient Cyrillic. About a thousand such birch-bark documents have been excavated in Novgorod, Russia, and some other historical towns since 1951. They have provided information not only on the vernacular language of the time, but also about the ways and mores of Russians at a time when the country was in the throes of being Christianized. |
| Source | Scanned from А. Шицгал, Русский гражданский шрифт, "Искусство", 1958. Pre-1973 Soviet work, out of copyright. |
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| 2006-04-24 21:22 | 1073×548× (39129 bytes) | Eliashc | optimized using optipng. |
| 2004-07-10 03:18 | 1073×548× (40080 bytes) | Alt6878ggtg | I scanned this from А. Шигал, Русский гражданский шрифт, "Исс&# |
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| current | 21:05, 6 December 2019 | | 1,040 × 535 (38 KB) | Ран-кан | Cropped 3 % horizontally, 2 % vertically using CropTool with precise mode. |
| 21:43, 4 June 2017 |  | 1,073 × 548 (38 KB) | OgreBot | (BOT): Reverting to most recent version before archival | |
| 21:43, 4 June 2017 |  | 1,073 × 548 (39 KB) | OgreBot | (BOT): Uploading old version of file from en.wikipedia; originally uploaded on 2004-07-10 03:18:25 by Alt6878ggtg | |
| 12:33, 4 June 2017 |  | 1,073 × 548 (38 KB) | Ран-кан | Transferred from en.wikipedia |
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