Old Slavic Menea
Old Slavic Menea are manuscripts in the Old Church Slavonic language in Cyrillic script . They contain liturgical texts for the days of the church year , each summarized for one month.
The oldest surviving Slavic Menae are
designation | Time of origin | Place of origin | month | Location | Remarks | archive |
Codex Suprasliensis | Mid 11th century | Bulgarian Empire | March | Supraśl , Monastery of the Annunciation | 285 sheets, most extensive extant Slavonic manuscript, world document heritage | Warsaw , National Library , BN BOZ 201, Ljubljana , National and University Library , Cod. Kop. 2, St. Petersburg , Russian National Library , Q. perg. I. 72 |
Menaeon September | March 26, 1096 (finished) | Novgorod ? | September | Novgorod, Lazarev Monastery | 176 sheets | Moscow , Russian State Archives for Old Documents , ф. 381 (Син. Тип.), No.84 |
Menaeon October | 1096 | Novgorod? | October | Novgorod | 127 sheets | Moscow, Russian State Archives for Old Documents, ф. 381 (Син. Тип.), No.89 |
Menaeon November | 1097 | Novgorod? | November | Novgorod | 174 sheets | Moscow, Russian State Archives for Old Documents |
Putyatina Menaeon | 11th century | Novgorod? | May | Novgorod | 135 sheets | St. Petersburg, Russian National Library, Соф.202 |
Menaeon April | 11./12. century | Novgorod? | April | 110 sheets | Moscow, Russian State Archives for Old Documents |
Web links
- Old Slavic Menea (Russian) with redirects to the original texts
literature
- Ягич, В. Служебныя минея за сентябрь, октябрь и ноябрь в церковнославянском переводе по русским - рум95 10.пи10с9797 - In: Памятники древнерусского языка . Т. I. Санкт Петербург, 1886. ( Vatroslav Jagić , Menées for September, October, November in Church Slavonic translation in Old Russian manuscripts 1095-1097 , in: Monuments of the Old Russian Language , Vol. 1, St. Petersburg 1886)
- Emilia Guergova: Old Slavic Menaia: Structure and Content . In: Monastic Traditions . Ed. by Charles E- Gribble & Predrag Matejic. Slavica, Bloomington 2003, 143-152.