A Recently Discovered Slavic Nomocanonical Compilation From Mount Athos (1560-1580), Кирил Павликянов | Cyril Pavlikianov, УИ „Св. Климент Охридски”, 2025

A Recently Discovered Slavic Nomocanonical Compilation From Mount Athos (1560-1580)

Автор: Кирил Павликянов | Cyril Pavlikianov
Раздел: История на религиите, Нова и най-нова история, Българска история на чужди езици
Издателство: УИ „Св. Климент Охридски”
Народност: българска
ISBN: 9789540761718
първо издание, 2025 год.
меки корици, 296 стр.
Цена: 25,00 лв (12.78 €)

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Paralel edition of the Slavic text and its Greek sources

In the present monograph we are publishing the full text of a Slavic nomocanonical compilation which we found and photographed in 2023 in Mount Athos, in a kellion near the monastic capital of Karyai. The watermarks of the paper date this manuscript to about 1560-1580. After each page of the Slavic text we are offering the reader the text of its Greek protoype, if it could be identified. For this reason, we had to consult numerous old printed editions of Greek nomocanonical texts which until very recently were almost unaccessible. As M. Tzibranska reasonably remarked in 2011} it was then extremely difficult to find a printed copy of the so-called Nomocanon of Cotelerius, printed in Paris in 1677. By 2025, this is no longer an obstacle, because presently the old publications of ancient and medieval Greek texts are easily accessible on the Internet.

Our Athonite Slavic nomocanon consists of two distinct parts. The first part (ff. 1-54) comprises a Slavic translation of the Instructions of Patriarch John VI Nesteutes about the Sacrament of the Confession and the soiled Slavic Nomocanon of the Great Euchologion (Nomokanon pri velikom trebnike). The second part (ff. 54-94) is a miscellany consisting of Slavic translations of various nomocanonical texts, most of which belong to the so-called erotapocritic type and were authored in the early 15th century by eminent Byzantine churchmen like the Archbishop of Thessalonica Symeon (+1429) and the Metropolitan Ioasaph of Ephesos (+1437). Consequently, the Greek prototype of our Athonite nomocanon was composed after 1437 and was translates into Slavic before the mid-16th century.

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Prof. Cyril Pavlikianov (born 1965) is Ph.D. in Byzantine History (National and Capodistrian University of Athens 1998), Dr. Habilitatus (Dr. Scientiarum) in Mediaeval History (University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski” 2004), and Professor of Byzantine Philology and Palaeography at the University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski” (since 2007).

Main works:

1. The Medieval Aristocracy on Mount Athos, Sofia 2001.
2. ?????? ??????? ??? ????? ???? ??? ??? ?’ ?? ??? ??’ ?????, Thessalonica 2002.
3. История на българския светогорски манастир Зограф от 980 до 1804 г., Sofia 2005.
4. The Athonite Monastery of Vatopedi from 1462 to 1707. The Archival Evidence, Sofia 2008.
5. The Early Years of the Bulgarian Athonite Monastery of Zographou (980–1279) and its Byzantine Archives, Sofia 2011.
6. The Mediaeval Greek and Bulgarian Documents of the Athonite Monastery of Zographou (980-1600), Sofia 2014.
7. The Byzantine Documents of the Athonite Monastery of Karakallou and Selected Acts from the Ottoman Period (1294–1835), Sofia 2015.
8. Medieval Slavic Acts from Mount Athos 1230-1734. Bulgarian and Serbian Acts from the Monasteries of Karakallou, Kastamonitou St. Paul, Vatopedi and Xenophontos. Moldavian and Wallachian Slavic Acts from the Monasteries of Docheiariou, Kastamonitou and Zographou, Sofia 2018.
9. The byzantine Greek and Slavic Archives of the Athonite Monastery of Kastamonitou and its History According to the So-Called Legend (Logos Historikos) of Kastamonitou (Codex Kastamonitou no. 114). Diplomatic Edition of 46 Greek, Serbian, Moldavian and Wallachian Documents kept in Kastamonitou (1429-1819), Protaton (1784-1856) and Docheiariou (1578-1763). Critical Edition of Codex Kastamonitou no. 114 and of The Legend of Kastamonitou, Sofia 2020.
10. Acta Graeca Simonopetrae (1516–1821). The Surviving Post-Byzantine Documents of the Athonite Monastery of Simonopetra and its Archival Codices A and B, Sofia 2022.
11. Medieval Greek and Slavic Documents of the Athonite Monastery of “Hagiou Pavlou” (St. Paul) 1010–1580, Sofia 2023.