Bible Commentaries by Theophylact of Ohrid in the Collection of Manuscripts in Poland Cover Image

Коментарите към библейските четива от Теофилакт Охридски в ръкописните сбирки в Полша
Bible Commentaries by Theophylact of Ohrid in the Collection of Manuscripts in Poland

Author(s): Jan Stradomski
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Language and Literature Studies, Theology and Religion, Comparative Study of Literature, Eastern Slavic Languages, Biblical studies, Eastern Orthodoxy, History of Religion
Published by: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: biblical exegesis; Church Slavonic literature; Cyrillic manuscripts; Eastern Orthodox Church; Old Bulgarian literature; Old East Slavonic literature;

Summary/Abstract: In the Church Slavonic literary tradition, Theophylact of Ohrid is mostly associated with his exegeses to the Bible. The collections of Cyrillic manuscripts in Poland include only a single copy of his annotated Book of Gospels (BN 12431 III, beginning of the sixteenth century), which has not yet been the subject of a separate study. The book is particularly interesting and valuable, as it contains archaic linguistic features, proving that it is an extremely old copy of the first Slavonic translation of the work. This is an important example of the presence of manuscripts related to Old East Slavonic, and also indirectly – Old Church Slavonic literary tradition in the former Polish-Lithuanian state. The article gives a codicological and linguistic characteristic of this manuscript, and its primary aim is to draw attention to the manuscript from researchers of the works of Theophylact of Ohrid, the Church Slavonic literature, and the Bible.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 16
  • Page Range: 126-137
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Bulgarian