Folk and Apocryphal Motives of The Nativity Cycle, Reflected in Cyrillic Manuscripts from  Ugľa  Monastery  from the 17 th Century. Cover Image

Народные и апокрифические мотивы рождественского цикла, отраженные в углянских рукописях второй половины XVII века
Folk and Apocryphal Motives of The Nativity Cycle, Reflected in Cyrillic Manuscripts from Ugľa Monastery from the 17 th Century.

Author(s): Svetlana Shasherina
Subject(s): Russian Literature, Slovak Literature, Ukrainian Literature, Other Language Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Cyryllic manuscripts; apocrypha; Afroditian's legend

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with Apocryphas of the nativity cycle, particularly motives of the Three Wise Men arriving, which includes Afroditian’s legend as well, in cultural context of Transcarpatia, which is a border area between Slavia latina and Slavia byzantina. The datas for study were two cyrillic manuscripts from Ugľa monastery from the 17th century.