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Един изчезнал (може би) български ръкопис от Берат
A mising (perhaps) Bulgarian Manuscripts from Berat

Author(s): Petya Assenova
Subject(s): History, Archaeology, Cultural history, Comparative history, Local History / Microhistory, Modern Age
Published by: Македонски научен институт
Keywords: Macedonia; Bulgaria; History;

Summary/Abstract: The State Archives in Tirane keep over 100 manuscripts (the Berat chronicles) dated from the 6th to the mid-19th cc. No Slavonic manuscripts are to be found among them, However, in a text appended to a 14th с diptych, which used to be the possesion of the "St. George" Monastery of Berat (already non-existing by the late 19th c.) the list of books saved from the 1356 devastation of Berat, mention is made of "The Tetraevangelia from Bulgaria/ in Bulgarian" (both readings are possible), as well as of the name of their saver - Skurai.

  • Issue Year: 1996
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 89-100
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Bulgarian