Нови виждания за цар Иван Шишман и края на Търновското царство по данни от средновековните ръкописи
New Views on King Ivan Shishman and the End of the Kingdom of Turnovo According to Data from Mediaeval Manuscripts

Summary/Abstract: An attempt is made in this study to throw light on the last years of the Kingdom of Turnovo (1393–1395) by analyzing little known mediaeval documents and handwritten books. The author divides the sources into two groups: documents directly reflecting the resistance put up by Ivan Shishman in 1393–1395; a remarkable cycle of works in verse and prose by Bulgarian writers of the epoch, containing deep-felt prayers for the victory of Bulgarian arms over the Turks. To the first group are referred by miraculously preserved letter-orders from Ivan Shishman to his commanders that have survived on the last page of manuscript No. 298 of the Library of the Romanian Academy of Sciences. Revised are also an Octoechos-paracletic of 1393–1395 (SS Cyril and Methodius National Library, No. 180/313), as well as a Missal of the 17th c., constituting a copy of a manuscript of the 14th с. (SS Cyril and Methodius National Library, No. 621). A discovery of the authors is a gloss with the name of Ivan Shishman in manuscript No. 301 of the Library of the Romanian Academy of Sciences. The new pieces of information contribute to the elucidation of the precise place in history of such a controversial ruler as Ivan Shishman.

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