Manasses Chronicle
The Manasses Chronicle ( Bulgarian Манасиева летопис or Манасиева хроника ) is a Bulgarian translation and extension of the Chronicle Synopsis written around 1181 by the Byzantine writer Konstantin Manasses . The Chronike Synopsis describes the events from the creation of the world up to the year 1081 in verse.
The Manasses Chronicle was commissioned by the Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Alexander between 1345 and 1347. The Bulgarian translation contains another 19 chapters that deal with Bulgarian history. The Manasses Chronicle is richly illustrated and an excellent example of the Tarnowo Art School . In addition to the Bulgarian world, the chronicle was also very popular in the neighboring Balkan region and Russia. Today only five copies of her have survived.
Well-known copies
- Moscow copy
The Moscow copy is the oldest surviving copy of the Manasses Chronicle. It was written in Bulgarian and recorded in Pope Filip's code from 1345. Today the copy is in the State Historical Museum in Moscow .
- Vatican copy
This copy consists of 206 parchment pages . It is the only copy that shows a total of 69 original miniatures with more than 100 plots. A third of the miniatures were devoted to events from Bulgarian and Russian history, as well as Bulgarian-Russian and Bulgarian-Byzantine relations. The remaining two thirds come from the Byzantine Chronicle Synopsis, which is now lost . It is believed that the Vatican copy was made by the Tarnowo Art School and that it may be the original that Tsar Ivan Alexander commissioned in the 14th century. This copy is now in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana as Codex Vaticanus Slavicus 2.
- Tulcea copy
The Tulcea copy (named after the Romanian city Tulcea ) is written in Bulgarian and dates from the 16th – 17th centuries . Century. It is now kept in the manuscript collection of the Romanian Academy of Sciences .
- Hilandar copy
The Hilandar copy dates from 1510 and was written in Serbian . Today it is kept in Hilandar Monastery in the autonomous Greek monastic republic of Athos .
- Novgorod copy
The Novgorod copy dates from the 18th century, also the Serbian version. It is now in Saint Petersburg .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Bulgarians and Bulgaria in Ancient Russian Literature www.pravoslavieto.com, viewed November 30, 2008
- ↑ www.mfa.government.bg ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , PDF, 4.7 MB, viewed November 30, 2008
- ↑ The Manasses Chronicle was presented to the public (Bulgarian) ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
literature
- Peter Schreiner , Manasses, Konstantin , in Lexikon des Mittelalters Vol. VI, Col. 184.
- Konstantin Manasses: The Slavic Manasses Chronicle : after the edition by Joan Bogdan / with e. Introduction by Johann Schröpfer, Munich: Fink, 1966.
- Konstantin Manasses: Photo tipno izd. na Vatikanskija prepis na srednobalg. prevod , BAN Publishing House, Sofia, 1963
- Emil Georgiew : Literaturata na Vtorata bălgarska dăržava ,
- Ivan Dujcev: The miniatures of the Manasses chronicle , Bulgarski Hudoshnik publishing house and EA Seemann, Sofia and Leipzig, 1965
