Болгарские книжники раннего XIV в. между Тырновом, Святой горой и Святой землей
Bulgarian Men of Letters of the Early Fourteenth Century between Turnovo, Mount Athos and the Holy Lands

(Following the Forgotten and the Latest Identifications)

Summary/Abstract: The lack of precisely dated and located manuscripts of East Bulgarian origin from the period between 1277 and 1322 AD makes the issue of identifying the copyists' handwritings especially topical since this will contribute to the grouping of the codices. In 1913 B. Tzonev identified the handwriting of the Psalter from the Yugoslavian (now Croatian) Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU, IIIa49) with the handwriting of the Hieratikon of the National Museum in Sofia (now in NLCM № 590). Later on, this attribution was forgotten even by Tzonev himself and in the meantime the same handwriting was identified in the Norov Psalter. Recently Klimentina Ivanova published an article on the Jerusalem Еuchologion, Slav. 12, in Prof. I. Tarnanidis' Festschrift. The manuscript, which was dated from the sixteenth century, appears to be written on Italian paper in the early fourteenth century and its creation is undoubtedly connected with the founding of the Serbian monastery of St. Archangel Michael in Jerusalem which took place in the first decade of the fourteenth century. From the eight copyists of the Еuchologion the author identified the first and the third with the copyists of the Norov Psalter and the Norov Gospel. In addition, the sixth copyist was identified with the copyist of the Chilandar Gospel of Tsar Georgi Terter (1322). His hand is seen in the Norov Gospel which can now be dated from the first or the beginning of the second decade of the fourteenth century. For the rest of the manuscripts of the group the most probable dating is the first third of the fourteenth century.

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