The Mysteries of MS 88 of the Obolensky Collection (No 201), RGADA
The Mysteries of MS 88 of the Obolensky Collection (No 201), RGADA
Author(s): Anisava MiltenovaSubject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, History, Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Middle Ages, Theology and Religion, Religion and science , Philology, Translation Studies, History of Religion
Published by: Институт за литература - БАН
Keywords: Late Middle Ages; Balkan literary centres; Athonite tradition; interconnection between Bulgarian and Serbian literatures
Summary/Abstract: The composition of miscellanies intended for individual reading, gradually supplemented with additional texts over time, was not a novelty for the Southern Slavs in the Late Middle Ages, but the extant evidence is few in number. This study deals with the sixteenth-century manuscript No. 88 from the collection of Obolensky, the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts (RGADA), Moscow, which contains a series of unique texts preserving the repertoire of Bulgarian and Serbian literatures of that time. The manuscript contains both original works by Konstantin Kostenetski and Dimiter Kantakuzin and extracts and compilations translated from Byzantine Greek. The manuscript abounds invaluable examples of the writers’ efforts to develop the hesychastic literature, showing continued interest in it as spiritual reading exercises. The content shows the connection between the literary centres on the Balkans and, above all, with the monasteries on Mt Athos. The work of Palaeoslavists on the texts will be published shortly.
Journal: Старобългарска литература
- Issue Year: 2021
- Issue No: 63-64
- Page Range: 258-278
- Page Count: 21
- Language: English, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
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