Boyana palimpsest

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The Boyana Palimpsest is a manuscript in Old Church Slavonic from the 13th century. There are 109 sheets of parchment in the format 160 × 185 cm (of originally probably 224 sheets) that contain texts from the four Gospels of the New Testament in Cyrillic script ( Gospels ), as well as a Synaxarion and a Menaeon . 42 sheets were previously written with Gospel texts in Glagolitic script ( palimpsest ). Its text was very similar to the Codex Zographensis (and the Codex Marianus ) and was probably created in the late 11th century in what is now Macedonia ( School of Ohrid ).

Boyana palimpsest

The manuscript was found in Bulgaria in 1845 in the village of Boyana near the capital Sofia by the Russian Slavist Viktor Grigorowitsch, and is now in the Russian State Library in Moscow , Collection 87, №8 / M. 1690.

The Boyana Palimpsest is to be distinguished from the Boyana Psalter , another 13th century Cyrillic manuscript that was discovered in 1981 during the restoration of the Boyana Church . The Boyana Psalter is currently kept in the Boyana Church as a branch of the National History Museum of Bulgaria in Hall 3 under inventory number 35.

Psalter of Boyana

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