--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Nicholas Bodley" <nbodley@...> wrote:

>
> Wonder whether those accents are part of Old Church Slavonic.

I don't know... but the text is genuine Russian (I can read it).

> I have been browsing extensively the quite-remarkable

pre-1917-Revolution

> color-separation images, almost entirely of Russia, at the US

Library of

> Congress*, and did notice some religious inscriptions with lots of

accents

> above. I didn't try to download the typ. 39-MB TIFF-format images

that are

> available, but as I (hope to) continue to browse, I'll seriously

consider

> having a detailed look, and try to remember to post a link (even,
> conceivably, an image) to Qalam.
>
> *Googling on [prokudin] should be sufficient.

Whoa... those photographs are beautiful. Thanks for the input.

Gianni Vacca