Надписите към изображенията на Вселенските събори в Елешнишкия манастир (XVI в.) – извори и проблеми

Author(s): Stefan Smjadovski / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/1993

The author analyses the frescoes illustrating the Ecumenical councils found in the Eleshnitsa monastery near Sofia. The accompanying explanatory inscriptions to the scenes as well as the iconography as a whole have no analogue either in preserved frescoes in other churches or in late iconography manuals. The inscriptions in Eleshnitsa show a remarkable resemblance to the wellknown “Narrative of the Ecumenical Councils”, according to the transcript found in “Codex of Tsar Ivan Alexander”. The non-standard iconography, which might have come from an earlier epoch and is undoubtedly connected with the above-mentioned literary source, has been interpreted in two ways – on the one hand, emphasizing the Bulgarian church priority in anti-heretical struggles (two Ecumenical councils were held in Turnovo in the 14th c. ), compared to the Church of Constantinople, and on the other – illustrating a monastery rather than a church iconographic tradition.

Рунически надписи от село Чукурово, Софийско

Author(s): Rajko Sefterski / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/1993

At this article for the first time are published 14 inscriptions of the runic linear type, discovered at the beginning of the 20th century but not published in the archives of acad. Jordan Ivanov. They represent a fragment of the full stone inscription and of separate inscriptions made on the stone blocks and are probably connected with a Proto-Bulgarian sanctuary (Old-Bulgarian “kapishte”) near the village of Chukurovo (Gabra) in the region of Sofia, situated 30 km southeast of Sofia. We share the opinion that they belong to the Proto-Bulgarian tradition of runic writing dating back to the days of Khan Krum, who had annexed the Sofia region to Bulgaria in 809.

Славянските първоучители и Беларус

Author(s): Peter Kucarov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/1993

In his research the author uses archive and rare press materials to prove that Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius were widely known in Bielarus in the 19th century. Solemn celebrations were held in their honour in 1885 in Minsk, Vitebsk, Lepel, Polotsk, Rechitsa, Grodno, Moghiliov, Slutsk, Belinichy. The Beilorussians drew the faces of the first Slavonic teachers on icons, medallions, named churches and monasteries after them, carved the Cyrillic alphabet on objects of everyday use. Every school at the time had been provided with the portrait of Sts Cyril and Methodius and every child had been given their hagiography.

Сто години от рождението на Франтишек Дворник

Author(s): Dimo Cheshmedzhiev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/1993

Осемдесетгодишният юбилей на боландиста Пол Девос

Author(s): Slavia Barlieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/1993

Традиции в спомена за Кирил и Методий в България през XIII – XIV век – опит за нова интерпретация

Author(s): Kiril Petkov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/1993

This paper is an attempt to bring to reinterpretation Late Bulgarian – 13th–14th centuries especially – traditions in the recording of Cyril and Methodius’ deeds. The core of the analysis is the 16th century “Short Life” of St Methodius, discovered in Voevodina in the mid-nineteenth century, but still not properly investigated. A detailed comparison of its extant remains and the written tradition best preserved and now generally accepted – this of the Lives of SS Cyril and Methodius – shows the striking authencity and accuracy of its data. It seems to be a “twin life” of the so-called “Uspenie Kirilovo” and helps to establish the dominant tradition during the 13th and 14th centuries, a tradition distinct from the Lives, and consistent with the “Short Life”’s testimonies. The paper also traces the information of this now lost tradition back to earliest times and tries to establish its reflections in other Byzantine and Slavic sources of the 13th–14th centuries.

A Slavic Gospel in Los Angeles

Author(s): Mateja Matejic / Language(s): English Issue: 2/1993

In the report is presented most essential information concerning a Slavic Gospel from sixteen century.

Наблюдения над ръкопис № 508 от сбирката на Народната библиотека „Св. св. Кирил и Методий“

Author(s): Iskra Hristova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/1993

Ms. No 508 contains a lectionary Acts and Epistels together with a leetionary Gospel on vellum, and is from the 13th century. The orthographic and linguistic features indicate a West Bulgarian origin. Except by confusion between ѫ and ѧ, the orthography is characterized in particular by confusion between ѧ and е, between ѫ and the jers, between и and ы. The letter ь is used to represent both jers. The lexicon of both the Acts and Epistels and the Gospel is archaic, containing variants that are considered characteristic of the Cyril and Methodius translation. The synaxarion includes listings for the Bulgarian saints Petka of Tarnovo (14 Oct.), John of Rila (19 Oct.), Cyril the Philosopher (14 Feb.), and Joachim of Sarandapor (16 Aug.). Frequently complete troparia are given for holidays and saints. A troparion from St. Cyril’s service is produced for St. Cyril which has interesting textological features in this copy.

Общи писменоезикови черти в преписите на архаични дамаскини

Author(s): Vassil P. Vassilev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/1993

This research work aims at revealing the generally accepted orthographic features involved in the characteristic of the ancient damaskins – Bulgarian manuscripts from the end of the 16th century to the end of the 18th century. The language features in the copies of damaskins presented here to a large extent illustrate the type of written Bulgarian language during this historical period and are connected with its stylistics. Special emphasis has been laid on the fact that the common dominates over the particular and the specific. Yet each work from this ancient cycle is written in a peculiar fashion although all of them keep to the standards of the language that is regarded as “late post-Euthymius medieval Bulgarian” or “the old language of damaskins” and each of these damaskins in its own way stands close to what has been generally accepted.

Функциите на конструкцията dativus absolutus в Житието на св. Симеон Неман

Author(s): Jerzy Staszewski / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/1993

The article deals with different functions of dativus absolutus in its most frequent use expressing differentiated temporal relations. The introductory analysis shows that even the essential temporal oppositions are not clearly distinguished. In the author’s opinion, there is no correlation between the type of participle in the surface structure and simultaneity or sequence respectively. The image is more complicated because of: 1) the presence of phasic verbs, 2) temporal periods corresponding to the states which are results of different actions, 3) the actions being the equivalent of negated other actions (or prevention of other actions).

Relations bulgaro-byzantines au temps de Georges II Terter (1321 – 1322)

Author(s): Zdravko Plyakov / Language(s): French Issue: 2/1993

The article discusses the Bulgarian-Byzantine relations to King Georges II Terter (1321–1322).

Лев Александрович Дмитриев

Author(s): Elena Tomova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/1993

Професор Лешек Мошински на 65 години

Author(s): Mariya Raykova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/1993

Нова антология за естествознанието в средновековна България

Author(s): Tsvetana Cholova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/1993

Към въпроса за религиозните представи и произхода на прабългарите

Author(s): Krassimira Kostova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/1993

The article draws parallels: (1) between the Proto-Bulgarian archaeological and anthropological data and the Sarmatian ones and (2) between the images on the Proto-Bulgarian gold treasures and the Dionysos’ cult. An assumption is made that the Proto-Bulgarians belonged to the Indo-European tribes and that they were acquainted with the Dionysos’ cult.

Мястото на новооткритите листове от Синайския евхологий сред другите текстове от ръкописа. Филологически и литургически анализ на молитвите от денонощния богослужебен цикъл (ΑΙΣΜΑΤΙΚΗ ΑΚΟΛΟΥΘΙΑ)

Author(s): Georgi Minčev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/1993

In 1988 the Greek scholar Ioannis Tarnanidis published a catalogue of the Slavic manuscripts discovered on Mt. Sinai in 1975, including some ancient Slavic biblical and liturgical codices. Among these were also found 28 sheets of the “Euehologium Sinaiticum”. Despite the various lacunae, including serious ones, this codex remains the most voluminous (and the only) compilation of the Byzantine euchology from the earliest period in Old Slavonic. It is derived from one or more Byzantine euchologies, either of the type originating in Constantinople or those originating outside the capital. The new texts have not, however, gone without raising both codicological and liturgical questions. In the present paper are confronted a few of these problems, limiting the study to the first four sheets, which contain prayers for the main celebrant of the liturgy of the hours for vespers, matins, the third and the sixth hours. Another goal of the article is to find the proper location that should be assigned to the recently discovered sheets, among the other – already known – parts of the “Euchologium Sinaiticum”. At the end of the article are the contents of the sheets, with the prayers of the liturgy of the hours in Cyrillic transliteration.

The Symeonic Florilegium – Problems of Its Origin, Content,Textology and Edition, Together with an English Translation of the Eulogy of Tzar Symeon

Author(s): Francis Thomson / Language(s): English Issue: 1/1993

The article presents the edition of the Symeonic Florilegium from 1991. The author make a critical survey of some expressed opinions in the studies in edition.

Предаването на гръцкото минало несвършено време в старобългарския превод на 13-те слова на св. Григорий Богослов по ръкопис от XI век

Author(s): Tatyana Ilieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/1993

A comparison is made in this article between the use of the Imperfect in the Greek text of the 13 sermons by St. Gregory the Theologian and its grammatical correspondences in the Old-Bulgarian translation. The goal is to explain some problems of the translation, resulting from the difference between the temporal-aspectual oppositions in the verb systems of the two languages, to determine to what extent the translator follows the rules of the Slavic literature or is influenced by the original. From that analysis we can draw the following conclusion: the semantics of the Greek and the Old-Bulgarian Imperfect is not the same. The Greek Imperfect, as part of a verb system with priority of aspectual oppositions in it, is covered by the term Inorective. In the Old-Bulgarian language the Imperfect is a tense of the relative temporal system and denotes simultaneousness in the past.

Взаимодействие латинского Запада и византийского Востока: кирилло-мефодиевская традиция, истоки польской литературы и проблемы славянской взаимности

Author(s): Aleksandr Lipatov / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/1993

The interaction of the Latin West and the Byzantine East has left its traces more or less on the territory of whole Europe. The results of the research work in the field of archaeology, linguistics, literature and art point out the role of the Cyrillo-Methodian mission in Poland. It is reflected, in particular, in “The Virgin”, the famous masterpiece of the Old Polish poetry and in the greatest national sacred treasure – the icon of the Virgin of Chenstokhow. Poland played the role of the interslavic link, connecting the cultures of Catholic and Orthodox slavic communities. At the same time Poland was synthesizing cultural-artistic values of Christian West and East from the point of view of its beliefs, conventions and needs. The adequate understanding of Slavic community may be reached only if we consider il in the light of the superethnic universal community – the Mediterranian civilization.

Пейо Димитров

Author(s): Dimitrinka Dimitrova-Marinova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/1993