qalam@yahoogroups.com wrote on 06/20/2006 04:37:52 AM:

> Hi
>
> > But I've never seen any comparable work on Cyrillic. Almost all I

know

> > of historic Cyrillic writing is what I've seen in ornamental use. Can

> > anyone recommend a book or a website?
>
> It is true that it is difficult to find books about the evolution of
> the shapes of Cyrillic letters, even in Russian.
>
> Maybe you want to have a look at books about Old Church Slavonic.
> After all, most letter shapes had already been stabilised once Russian
> took over.

Alphabets Necessary for Various Cyrillic Writing Systems
http://www.gutenberg.eu.org/pub/GUTenberg/publicationsPDF/28-29-berdnikovb.pdf

Perhaps not exactly what you are looking for, but interesting nonetheless.

Lorna