Newly Discovered Slavonic Manuscripts, Containing De Christo et Antichristo and Commentarii in Danielem by Hippolytus of Rome
Newly Discovered Slavonic Manuscripts, Containing De Christo et Antichristo and Commentarii in Danielem by Hippolytus of Rome

Summary/Abstract: The study presents the Slavic manuscripts containing Hippolytus of Rome’s De Christo et Antichristo and In Danielem, two pivotal early Christian texts focused on eschatology and apocalyptic prophecy in Old Bulgarian translation. Seventeen manuscripts are examined, four of which (Pe, Ba, Va, Ms) have not been documented until now. The analyzed manuscripts, dating from the 11th–12th to the 18th–19th centuries, are preserved in foreign libraries. The new findings reveal that these works were frequently transmitted as a unified corpus, challenging assumptions about their independent circulation. The manuscripts, predominantly of Russian origin but rooted in Balkan monastic tradition (notably linked to Meteora and Hilandar Monastery on Mount Athos), demonstrate scribal practices influenced by a specific Greek prototype and recognizable South Slavonic linguistic features.

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