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Un nou manuscris al copistului Prohor de la începutul secolului al XVII-lea
A Novel Manuscript by Scribe Prochorus Dating from the Beginning of the 17th Century

Author(s): Alexandru Pascal
Contributor(s): Silviu-Andries Tabac (Translator)
Subject(s): History, Local History / Microhistory, 17th Century
Published by: Centrul de cercetare şi documentare ŞTEFAN CEL MARE
Keywords: cryptography; Moldavia; Slavonic manuscript; Sucevița Monastery; scribe Prochorus;

Summary/Abstract: The article presents an unknown autograph of the Moldavian scribe Prochorus, from the Menaion for November, a manuscript dating from 1608 and presently kept at the Scientific Library of the Moscow State University (no. 487). Only three manuscripts by this calligrapher were previously known, all of them dating from 1606 and dedicated to Sucevița Monastery: Matei Vlastares’ Syntagma, now kept in the collections of the “Andrey Sheptytsky” National Museum in Lviv, as well as the Triodion and the Menaion for December, which are kept in the collections of Sucevița Monastery.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 27-32
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Romanian