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Miscellany with kanons, services, and lives of St. John of Rila


Bulgaria, Rila, Rila monastery, 1/26 (79). Catalog: 189.

Physical descriptionMaterial: Paper. Extent: II + 225 + III. Layout: In 1 column, 23 lines per page for the first scribe. In 1 column, 22 lines per page for the second scribe. Decoration: Decorated in geometrical style. Additions: The late additions were made by Neophitos of Rila in the 18th c.
Scribes
  • Name: Anonymous. Hand: Middle semi-uncial. Bulgarian two-jus and two-jer (Tărnovo) orthography.
  • Name: Monk David. Hand: Middle semi-uncial. Resavian orthography.

Note: The first scribe is the copyist of the Skopje menaion of 1451 г. (Church Historical and Archival Institute, Sofia, № 489).

ContentsAll the works in the MS are devoted to St. John of Rila: kanons for all the 8 modes; the so-called Narodno (Anonymous, Rila Monastery) life, The life by George Skilitsa, Service for 19 October, composed most probably in the 15th c. in Rila Monastery; The First (Tărnovo) prologue life both with the addition and without it (after the 6th canticle of the kanon); Service for 18 August and some other hymnographic materials.
History15th c., last quarter.
BibliographyИванов 1931: 345-358; Иванов 1935-1936:1-109; Неофит Рилски 1836: 2-17; Опис на ръкописите 1902: 24-25; Своден каталог: 189; Славянски ръкописи 1986: 100-103, № 62.