История на богослужебния апарат в Четириевангелието на цар Иван Алсксандър
The History of the Calendar and Other Liturgical Material in the Tetraevangelion of Tsar Ivan Alexander

Summary/Abstract: On the basis of content, location and handwriting of the marginal note to f. 5 in the letraevangelion written for Tsar Ivan Alexander in 1356 it is assumed that a calendar and other liturgical material both of an archaic type, were added to that tetracvangelion most probably in the early decades of the 15th century in a small liturgical centre in Moldavia. A collation wilh other early calendars showed that the menologion in the book stems from a prototype that emerged in the end of 12th or the beginning of 13th centuries in theZograph Monastery on Mount Athos. This original menologion had leasts for each date. It has been preserved in 11 South Slavonic copies from the 13th and the 14th centuries. Later a menologion containing only selected dates was compiled using material from it. The menologion in the liturgical materials added to the tetraevangelion of Tsar Ivan Alexander is an exact copy of this variant, which was made by compiling selected texts from different sources. The menologion in manuscript 50У in the SS Cyril and Methodius National Library in Sofia is almost identical to it. The abbreviated menologion in these two manuscrips has been combined with an abbreviated synaxarion that is not of the usual type. In the tetraevangelion of Tsar Ivan Alexander excerpts from a synaxarion of the usual type for the cycles of feasts after Pentecost and after Indiction was added to this calendar.

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