Традиция, знания, практика в манастирска среда: кратки текстове от ръкопис БАН 66, XVI–XVII в.
Tradition, Knowledge, Practice in a Monastic Environment: Short Texts from MS. Slav. BAS 66, 16th–17th c.

Summary/Abstract: This article presents and analyses four short texts in the theological miscellany № 66 from the collection of the Scientific Archives of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The 16th–17th century’s manuscript is of unknown origin, but stands as a typical representative of South Slavic literature of the Ottoman period. The object of attention are the following unpublished, and most of them even undescribed texts: 1. A Sermon on the Spiritual Law, essentially a commutation scheme to replace fasting with equivalents reading the Psalter or the Lord’s prayer, paying liturgies; 2. Short texts with Old Testament motifs: How Solomon’s temple was built and the so-called Second wise man’s answer to what the woman represents; 3. Two recipes for making ink to write with; 4. An apocryphal prayer against a thief of the corn seeds, copied as a marginal entry. Lexical data has been extracted from each of the texts. The annotated short texts prove that, although often overlooked and marginalized, they carry valuable information about the manuscript or about particular aspects of the life of the communities it served or in which it existed.

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