Old Slavic Menaeon for September
The Old Slavic Menaeon for September (Russian Служебная минея на сентябрь ) is a manuscript in Old Church Slavonic in Cyrillic from 1095/1096. It was completed on March 26, 1096, according to a note. The place of origin is unknown (Novgorod?). It is one of the oldest extant, precisely dated manuscripts of the Kievan Rus .
The manuscript contains a complete menaeon for September with homilies and saints' lives . It consists of 176 parchment leaves , the first 8 additions from the 13th century. The initials of 1095/1096 are decorated, the later ones are designed in the late Byzantine style. A domka ( Дъмкъ ) is mentioned as a scribe in some notes . This probably also wrote the menaeon for October.
The manuscript was in 1679 in the typographic courtyard of the Lazarev monastery in Novgorod. Today it is in the Russian State Archives for Old Documents in Moscow.