Excerpts from Athanasius of Alexandria’s Works Used in the Pneumatomachian Controversy According to the Hesychast and Anti-Latin Hilandar Collection HM. SMS.474 Cover Image

Фрагменти с името на Атанасий Александрийски в полемиката срещу духоборците съгласно исихасткия и антилатински Хилендарски сборник HM. SMS. 474
Excerpts from Athanasius of Alexandria’s Works Used in the Pneumatomachian Controversy According to the Hesychast and Anti-Latin Hilandar Collection HM. SMS.474

Author(s): Pirinka Penkova
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Philology
Published by: Институт за български език „Проф. Любомир Андрейчин“, Българска академия на науките
Keywords: Athanasius of Alexandria; Arians; Macedonius; Serapion; HM. SMS. 474
Summary/Abstract: The subject of the article is the origin and the language of the fragments attributed to Athanasius of Alexandria in the 15th century Miscellany from Hilandar monastery HM. SMS. 474, dated to 1385 – 1395. The Athanasius’ fragments about the origin of the Holy Spirit include: а) an incipit and a text from an unidentified anti-Latin Sermon; the incipit and the beginning of the Sermon are quoted by Basil the Great in his Homily XXIV against the Arians, Savellians and Eunomians; b) a Quote from the Pseudo-Athanasian First Dialogue contra Macedonius, 5.11 – 13; c) a Quote from Athanasius’ Epistula ad Serapionem, I.2. The same three fragments are attested in the unpublished Codex 41 of the Monastery of the Holy Trinity in Pljevlja, copied around 1400. The identical content and the lanquage of HM. SMS. 474 and Codex 41 testify to a common origin. The Athanasius’ fragments are placed together with a quote from Basil the Great, Against Eunomius, and Barlaam of Calabrias on the principles of the discussion (начала), as well as many commentaries on these fragments, that are up to date in the 14th century. It can be assumed that some Greek collection used for the Slavonic translation of this part of HM. SMS. 474 presents stored documentation of the disputes in Constantinople during 1334 – 1337 between the papal legates and their orthodox opponents Gregory Palamas and Barlaam of Calabria.