Synaxarion Vita of Saint Mary of Egypt – The Earliest Serbian Manuscript Copies Cover Image

Најстарији српски преписи Пролошког житија Марије Египћанке
Synaxarion Vita of Saint Mary of Egypt – The Earliest Serbian Manuscript Copies

Author(s): Milka Radulović
Subject(s): History of Church(es), Eastern Orthodoxy
Published by: Vizantološki institut SANU
Keywords: synaxarion vita; St. Mary of Egypt; prologue with verses; Lukije’s redaction

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses Synaxarion vita of Saint Mary of Egypt according to earliest Ser bian copies in synaxarions. The texts of the three translations are compared between each other and also with the extensive Vita of Saint Mary of Egypt. In both simple prologue and prologue with verses the text about this saint is established on the duration of two opposite parts in her life and it points out the details existing in iconography, although one version ofsynaxarion with verses introduces an unfamilliar information about her burial.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 54
  • Page Range: 183-196
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Serbian