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Bulgaria, Rila, Rila Monastery, 2/8 (27). Catalog: 219.

Physical descriptionMaterial: Paper. Extent: 317 ff. Layout: In 1 column, 29 lines per page. Condition: The first 9 folia were added in the second half of the 17th c. The MS was used for a long time, but is well preserved.
Scribe

Summary: The same scripe copied MS 2/10, kept in the same collection

  • Name: Anonymous. Hand: Middle semi-uncial of low quality. One-jer and none-jus orthography, traces of Resavian redaction.
Contents Contains services for the major church feasts with synaxarian lives. The only Slavonic saint to be included is St. Paraskeve (Petka), her service is published by Kožukharov (1971) who consider it being of Tărnovo origin and created in the last decades of the 14th c.
History15th c., 3rd quarter.
BibliographyКожухаров 1971; Опис на ръкописите 1902: 35, ІІ/8); Своден каталог: 219; Славянски ръкописи 1986: 48-49, № 17.