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Tetraevangelion; Tetraevangelion of Dobromir

Egypt, Sinai, Mt., Monastery of St. Catherine, Sin.Slav.7/N. Catalog: 7/N. Collection: New Collection.

Physical descriptionMaterial: Parchment. Extent: 9 ff. Layout: In 1 column, 20 lines per page. Condition: This fragment is part of the so-called Dobromir Gospel, now in Sankt Petersburg, Russian National Library, Q.p.I 55 (183 ff.). Other fragments are kept in the Old Collection at the Monastery of St. Catherine, Mount Sinai (MS 43, 23 ff.) and The National Library in Paris (Slav.65, 2 ff.).
Scribe
  • Name: Scribe A. Hand: Cyrillic majuscul. Old Bulgarian with Middle Bulgarian features.

Note: The scribe was the one who copied the main part of the Tetraevangelion; identified by Velčeva (see Велчева 1975: 11) as Scribe A.

Contents Contains Matthew 21:24-24:3; 27:48-64.
History12th c., beginning.
BibliographyAltbauer 1973; Tarnanidis 1988: 111-112; Велчева 1975; Станчев 1981; Старобългарска литература 2003: 142-143; Угринова-Скалевска и Десподова 1992.