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Life of St. Basil the Younger


Egypt, Sinai, Mt., Monastery of St. Catherine, Sin.Slav.20/N. Catalog: 20/N. Collection: New Collection.

Physical descriptionMaterial: Paper. Extent: 120 ff. Layout: In 1 column, 20 lines per page. Condition: The beginning of the MS is missing as well as some other folia. Decoration: Red headings and initials.
Scribe
  • Name: Priest Petăr. Hand: Cyrillic majuscule. Bulgarian two-jer and two-jus orthography.
ContentsContains the Life of Basil the Younger, written by his disciple Gregory. The MS contains many marginal notes left by the scribe; in the inscription on f. 155 he claims that the MS was copied in Bulgaria during the reign of tsar Asen the Great, i.e. Ivan Alexander (1331-1371).
History1370.
BibliographyTarnanidis 1988: 148-156.