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Култът към св. Петка Търновска в Румъния (Из ръкописната сбирка на манастира Драгомирна)
The Cult of St Petka of Tărnovo in Romania (From the Manuscript Collection of Dragomirna Monastery)

Author(s): Elena Tomova
Subject(s): Language studies
Published by: Институт за литература - BAN

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the literary history of the vitae of St Petka of Tărnovo (of Iaşi) in view of their fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Cyrillic copies kept in the Romanian libraries and monasteries (and in particular, in Dragomirna Monastery). It also presents the results of a text critical analysis of the saint’s Prolog vita known in seven copies, the key one being preserved in the fourteenth-century manuscript BAS 73.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 47
  • Page Range: 251-259
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Bulgarian