Triodion from Bitola

Triodion from Bitola

The Triodion of Bitola (or Triodion of Kitschewo ) is an ornate manuscript in Old Church Slavonic from the second half of the 12th century. The triodion contains parts of the chants of a fasting triodion .

101 parchment sheets in the format 195 × 275 cm have been preserved. In addition to Byzantine hymns, prayers by Constantine von Preslaw are included. Texts are from Kliment from Ohrid and Naum from Ohrid . The text is in Cyrillic script and contains 56 Glagolitic letters. It was created around the Ohrid school . The writer was a monk Georg Grammatikos from the village of Wala. Some notes were added at a later time .

The manuscript was brought to the Bulgarian trading office in Bitola in North Macedonia in 1898 , from one of the surrounding villages, probably Kitschewo. In 1907 the Bulgarian historian Jordan Ivanov brought them to Bulgaria. Today it is in the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia .

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• Zaimov, J. The Kičevo Triodium . Полата кънигописьная, 10/11, 1984, pp. 1-202