Жития болгарских святых в Стишном прологе XVI в. Cod. Kop. 19 из Собрания Йернея Копитара (НУБ, Любляна)
The Lives of Bulgarian Saints in the Sixteenth-century Verse Prolog Cod. Kop. 19 from Kopitar’s Collection (National and University Library, Ljubljana)

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses problems related to the literary history of the Prolog’ Vitae of the well-known Bulgarian saints Paraskeve of Epibatai / Petka of Tărnovo, John of Rila, Hilarion of Moglena (Măglen), and Michael, the Warrior of Potuka, as found in the Slavic manuscript tradition (more precisely, in the sixteenth-century Serbian hagiography), according to the Prolog in Verses for the winter half of the year (Cod. Kop. 19 from 1594, Kopitar’s collection, National and University Library, Ljubljana). The aim of the investigation is, on the basis of text-critical study of the Lives in Bulgarian, Russian and Serbian copies, to outline their specific features, genealogy, belonging to a literary school and their place in the hagiological complex, dedicated to the Bulgarian saints.

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