The Number of Days in the Menologia of the Cyrillic Tetraevangelia Issued in the 16th Century in the Middle-Bulgarian Redaction of the Church Slavonic Language as Basis for their Division into Groups
The Number of Days in the Menologia of the Cyrillic Tetraevangelia Issued in the 16th Century in the Middle-Bulgarian Redaction of the Church Slavonic Language as Basis for their Division into Groups

Summary/Abstract: Only eight out of over one hundred editions of the early printed Cyrillic Tetraevangelia were issued in the Middle-Bulgarian redaction of the Church Slavonic Language. A textual analysis of nine zachalas of the Gospel text, the Prefaces of Blessed Theophylact, and the Chapter Titles has pointed to two possible ways of dividing these eight editions according to the textual variants revealed in the researched texts. This article presents an attempt to classify eight Middle-Bulgarian Tetraevangelia based on the number of days included in the twelve months of the Menologia. The research proved that such a division is also feasible, and the classification of these editions on this basis was previously unknown. The following four Gospels were included in the first group: 1512 – Târgovişte, 1546 – Sibiu, 1582 as well as after 1582 – Monastery of St. John the Baptist (Plumbuita on the River Colentina, now in Bucharest). The other four Tetraevangelia were included to the second group: 1562 – Braşov, 1579 – Braşov (or Sebeş), 1579 – Alba Iulia (Bălgrad), 1583 – Braşov (or Sebeş).

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