Isbornik Svyatoslawa

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Representation of the church fathers

The Isbornik Swjatoslawa (German text collection Swjatoslaws ) is an illustrated manuscript from 1073 and 1076 in Church Slavonic .

On 266 sheets of parchment it contains texts by Greek church fathers and theologians and from the Bible on theological, philosophical and ethical issues. It contains a total of 380 texts by 28 authors. The manuscript is provided with full-page colored miniatures and numerous decorations.

The manuscript was made in 1073 and 1076 for Grand Duke Sviatoslav II of Kiev , as a note in the text indicates. It was partly based on a collection for Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria from the late 10th or early 11th century. It was discovered in 1817 in the New Jerusalem Monastery near Moscow . Today it is in the State Historical Museum in Moscow.

literature

  • Leonhard Masing : Studies on the knowledge of Izbornik Svjatoslava from the year 1073 together with remarks on the more recent manuscripts , doctoral thesis Dorpat 1886 ( digitized ) = Archive for Slavic Philology Vol. 8, 1885, pp. 357–395; Vol. 9, 1886, pp. 77-112.
  • José Johannet : Les chapitres de définition philosophiques dans l'Izbornik de 1073 (Édition gréco-slave), in: Revue des études slaves . 63, 1991, pp. 55-111.

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