Нови данни за Климентовия цикъл от слова за Великия пост
New Data About Kliment’s Cycle of Sermons on the Great Lent

Author(s): Svetlina Nikolova
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Кирило-Методиевски научен център при Българска академия на науките
Summary/Abstract: St. Clement of Ohrid’s sermons on the Great Lent have been discovered for the science, published and studied since the middle of the 19th century, however many issues related to them have not been resolved yet, ranging from the development of their manuscript tradition among the southern and eastern Slavs to their authorship. The article summarizes the achievements of researchers in the study of the cycle of sermons on the Sundays of the Great Lent, associated with the name of Clement of Ohrid, as well as the information on completing the knowledge of its manuscript tradition after the last edition in 1977. As a continuation of my paper, devoted to some problems of the study of the Old Bulgarian edifying sermons from the 9th–10th century and their textual tradition, published in 2008, the present study makes an attempt, on the basis of previously unknown Bulgarian texts of the Bulgarian manuscript from the collection of Al. Khludov in the State Historical Museum, Moscow, No. 138 from the second half of the 13th c., to elucidate the earliest history of the cycle and its functioning in the South Slavic lands. In fact, this codex is not only the only one Bulgarian text of the full cycle discovered so far, but also the oldest of all Slavonic medieval manuscripts known today. It is an important testimony of the presence in the cycle, apart from the teachings for the Sundays of the forty-day Easter Lent, of Clement’s “Eulogy of the Raising of Lazarus” and “The Sermon of the Palm Sunday”, in the Lenten Triodion, intensely used in the Orthodox Liturgy among the Slavs since the appearance of its oldest translation in Bulgaria in the late 9th – early 10th c. The texts of this cycle, included in Khlud. 138, indicate that they were part of the liturgy practice in the lands inhabited by Bulgarians and were probably included in the text of the Triodion simultaneously with its translation in the 9th century when the original hymns of Constantin of Preslav appeared in it and, as these hymns were gradually pushed away from the composition of this liturgical book as early as 12th–13th c., these works were gradually removed and replaced with others when the Jerusalem Typikon was adopted in the liturgy of the Southern Slavs. The manuscript Klud. 138 proves, however, that they were preserved in the Bulgarian textual tradition of the Triodion until the 13th c., albeit in a somewhat ruined form, as were the Triodion hymns of Konstantin of Preslav as well. The cycle, which without doubt originated in the Bulgarian written tradition, also moved to the Serbian manuscripts, where remains of its distribution in the Triodions were found till the 15th c., albeit not many.

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