Два неизвестни преписа на канона за Успение Богородично от Климент Охридски
Two Unknown Copies of the Canon for the Assumption by Clement of Ohrid

Summary/Abstract: The article presents two unknown copies of the original Old Bulgarian cannon for the Assumption. The canon, whose author is the Old Bulgarian hymnographer Clement of Ohrid, was discovered by L. Moshkova and A. Turilov in 1999. The first copy dated the end of the 13th -the beginning of the 14th century belongs to the Menaion № 32 from the Dechani Monastery Collection at the National Library in Belgrade. Clement of Ohrid’s work is included in the divine service of the Pre-holiday of the Assumption (the 14th of August) as a canon of panihis. The Dech. 32 copy presents the second known and almost complete version of the canon, which is shown as a separate work. All the rest copies (presently there are five such in South Slavic and East Slavic codices dated from the late 1lth up to the first half of the 14th century) have reached us in the so called combined canons built up by compilation of Clement’s cannon for the Assumption and the cannon by John of Damascus dedicated to the same feast. The second copy, kept in MS 382 from the Sofia Collection at the Russian National Library in St.Petersburg and dated the end of the 13th – the beginning of the 14th century, also presented in the article, is interpreted as a part of the mentioned tradition. The principle of combining the translated and original troparion in Sof. 382 is contrasted to that of the rest combined canons comprising parts from Clement’s work.

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