Post #2597589
2026-03-26 14:40 UTC
@kupfers@mastodon.social
Thanks a big lot for chipping in! Context is this article I wrote (pardon my French) on Bulgarian typography, with the few sources I could get my hands on. Early Cyrillic prints in Church Slavonic by Szweipolt Fiol (1490s?) and printers in Vilnius (in Ukrainian) seem to use an Ustav style (Cyrillic uncial-like) old Cyr script. Peter I's Russian reforms seem not to trickle down to BG, and in 1838 the ¿first? BG press in Thessaloniki still uses Ustav characters. 1/2
@QuentinJuhel@post.lurk.org
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@dobody@mastodon.design 2026-03-26 14:47
@kupfers@mastodon.social Until mid 19th C. there's Bulgarian books being printed with Transitional Russian type in Ukraine (big BG diaspora region), but they lack essential BG glyphs/graphemes substituted with others. Begs the question of how Ustav-style characters circulated to BG territory in the mid-19th century, from whom, or if they were custom-made etc.. Bulg. press was largely hidden and undocumented sadly bc of Ottoman rule & prevalence of Greek for orthodox texts, facing backlash. 2/2 @QuentinJuhel@post.lurk.org