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Kalist Rasoder
Kalist Rasoder was the author of the Tetraevangelion, also known as "Serres Gospel" book, written in 1354 in the Serbian recension of Church Slavonic. In view of the turbulent historical happenings in the region at the time, it is understandable how the Gospel book of Metropolitan Jakov of Serres found its way into the library of St. Paul's monastery (Agiou Pavlou Monastery, Agiou Pavlou) at Mount Athos, although the precise date of the transfer is unknown. The manuscript was brought to England in 1837 from the Athonite monastery of Agiou Pavlou monastery, Agiou Pavlou, by Robert Curzon, 14th Baron Zouche. It was deposited at the British Museum by his son in 1876 and is kept in the British Library as Additional Manuscript 39626. See also *Teodosije the Hilandarian (1246–1328), one of the most important Serbian writers in the Middle Ages *Elder Grigorije (fl. 1310 – 1355), builder of Saint Archangels Monastery *Antonije Bagaš (fl. 1356 – 1366), bought and restored the Agiou Pav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tetraevangelion
''Tetraevangelion'' ( el, τετραευαγγέλιον, "Four Evangelia/Gospel Books"; ka, ოთხთავი, ''ot'kht'avi''; Old Slavonic: благовѣствованиѥ; bg, Четвероевангелие; sr, Четворојеванђеље) is a name used in Eastern Orthodox terminology for the Canonical gospels of the Four Evangelists. Examples of notable medieval manuscripts include: *Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander (1355–56), Bulgarian, illuminated. *Jakov of Serres' (1354), Serbian, illuminated. * Vani Gospels (12–13th c.), Georgian, illuminated. *Mstislav Gospel (12th c.), Russian, illuminated. *Codex Marianus (11th c.), South Slavic. One of the oldest Slavic ''tetraevangelia''. *Codex Zographensis The ''Codex Zographensis'' (or ''Tetraevangelium Zographense''; scholarly abbreviation ''Zo'') is an illuminated Old Church Slavonic canon manuscript. It is composed of 304 parchment folios; the first 288 are written in Glagolitic containing Gospels ... (10–11t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constantine Of Kostenets
Constantine of Kostenets ( bg, Константин Костенечки, Konstantin Kostenechki; born ca. 1380, died after 1431), also known as Constantine the Philosopher ( sr, Константин Филозоф), was a medieval Bulgarian scholar, writer and chronicler, who spent most of his life in the Serbian Despotate. He is best known for his biography of Serbian despot Stefan Lazarević, which George Ostrogorsky described as "the most important historical work of old Serbian literature",Ostrogorsky, ''History of the Byzantine State'', translated by Joan Hussey, revised edition, (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1969), p. 471 and for writing the first Serbian philological study, ''Skazanije o pismenah'' (A History on the Letters). He followed the writing style of the Old Serbian ''vita'', first made popular in the Serbian scriptoria of the 12th century. Biography Constantine was born in Bulgaria, probably in Kostenets. In his youth, he attended school in the capital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serbian Manuscripts
This is a list of Serbian manuscripts ( sr, Српски рукописи), containing important works attributed to Serbia or Serbs. The majority of works are theological, with a few biographies and constitutions. The works were written in Cyrillic, except some early works in the Glagolitic script. The number of early Serbian manuscripts, that is, those made before the end of the 14th century, is estimated at 800–1,000. The number of Serbian manuscripts dating between the 12th and 17th centuries that are located outside Serbia is estimated at 4,000–5,000. The largest number of the manuscripts are located in Europe. The largest and most important collection is housed at the Hilandar on Mount Athos. Next, the second largest collection is most likely found in Russia, where hundreds of manuscripts are held. More than a thousand of medieval manuscripts were destroyed during the German bombing of Belgrade (1941). The Digital National Library of Serbia (NBS) has digitalized severa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medieval Serbian Literature
Medieval Serbian literature or Old Serbian literature ( sr, Стара српска књижевност) refers to the literature written in medieval forms of Serbian language, up to the end of the 15th century, with its traditions extending into the early modern period. Background Medieval Serbia is an heir of Constantine the Great's Byzantium, the eastern part of the Roman Empire. Serbian Old Church Slavonic literature was created on Byzantine model, and at first church services and biblical texts were translated into Slavic, and soon afterward other works for Christian life values from which they attained necessary knowledge in various fields (including Latin works). Although this Christian literature educated the Slavs, it did not have an overwhelming influence on original works. Instead, a more narrow aspect, the genres, and poetics with which the cult of saints could be celebrated were used, owing to the Slavic celebration of Cyril and Methodius and their Slav disciples ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anonymous Athonite
Anonymous Athonite (also known in Serbia as Nepoznati Svetogorac; late 14th to mid-15th century) was Isaija the Monk's biographer and one of the many unidentified authors of Medieval works. It is assumed that he wrote "The Life of the Elder Isaiah" (Isaija) in the Russian monastery of St. Panteleimon Monastery on the Holy Mountain (Mount Athos), shortly after the death of Isaiah, since he was well acquainted with various moments of the youth and monastic life of Isaiah, being his contemporary and perhaps his colleague or disciple as well. The text is known from a transcript from the 15th century, located at Hilandar Monastery. Another work is attributed to him, the translation of the Books of Kings, in 1415. See also *Lazarević dynasty * Battle of Kosovo * Jefimija * Princess Milica of Serbia * Stefan Lazarević * Teodosije * Danilo II, Serbian Archbishop * Stefan Dušan * Elder Siluan * Teodosije the Hilandarian (1246-1328), one of the most important Serbian writers in the Middle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marko Pećki
Marko Pećki (village of Ljevoši, near Peć in Kosovo, Serbia, 1360 – Ljevoši, Kosovo, Serbia, after 1411) was a Serbian medieval writer and poet who lived at the time of Prince Lazar of Serbia and Stefan Lazarević. He is best known for the "Life of the Serbian Patriarch Ephraim" and other biographies. Biography Bishop Mark of Peć (hence Marko Pećki) belongs to a prominent place in the hesychast monastic hagiography from the time of Prince Lazar of Serbia and the Battle of Kosovo in 1389. He left his autobiographical data in his Letter to commemorate Gerasim and Euphemia ( Jefimija). Marko was born in 1360 in a village near Peć in Serbian Kosovo, as the youngest of four sons, born into a priestly family. We do not know his baptismal name, however, we know that all four brothers were priests. His father's secular name was probably George because he chose Gerasim as his new name for his new monastic way of life, and as Hieromonk Gerasim, he went on to build the church o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicodemus Of Tismana
Nikodim Tismanski, also known as Nikodim Osvećeni, Nikodim Vratnenski, Nikodim Grčić, and in Romanian, Nikodim de la Tismana (Prilep, today in North Macedonia, then Byzantine Empire, c. 1320 – Tismana, Walachia, now Romania, 26 December 1406), was a Christian monk scribe and translator who was the founder of monasteries, one in Serbia and two in Romania. In Serbian medieval history he is remembered for conveying hesychastic monastic traditions and as a member of a diplomatic and ecclesiastical mission to Constantinople in 1375. He was one of the followers of St. Gregory of Sinai. Sanctified in 1767 by the Eastern Orthodox Church, he is commemorated on 26 December. Also, he was canonized by the Romanian Orthodox Church in 1955. Origins Nicodemus who was born most probably in Prilep, was of mixed Greek-Serbian origin to a Greek father from Kastoria and a Serbian mother. Other researchers point to an Aromanian father and a Bulgarian mother. Serbian historian and academician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dimitar Of Kratovo
Dimitar of Kratovo ( sr, Димитар Кратовски) was a 15th-century Slavic (https://pravoslavnaya.academic.ru/6167/%D0%94%D0%98%D0%9C%D0%98%D0%A2%D0%A0%D0%98%D0%99_%D0%9A%D0%A0%D0%90%D0%A2%D0%9E%D0%92%D0%95%D0%A6) writer and lexicographer, and one of the most important members of the during the Ottoman Empire. Biography We know next to nothing about his life. In all probability he was a priest or, even more likely, a monk. Dimitar was active in mid-15th century at the time when his town, Kratovo was in the hands of Ottomans for more than half a century. However, ore rich vicinity of the town and the wealth that stemmed from this source made it an important center for various arts, not least literature. In 1466 the Archbishop of Ohrid, Dorotheus, was searching for a learned men to translate the Syntagma of Matthew Blastares from Greek into Serbian because his cathedral seat did not have that book in the language that would be understood by natives. When he visited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajčin Sudić
Rajčin Sudić (c. 1335-after 1360) was a Serbian monk-scribe who lived and worked during the time of Lord Vojihna, the father of Jefimija. From the inscription Rajčin Sudić left in the margin of the Chronicles written in the 14th Century, we know that he was a prisoner of some feudal ruler of that period. There is some evidence that this ruler was Vojihna because at the time he possessed many fiefs. It is possible that Sudić was a scapegoat of a vehement opponent of "clan government". That is usurpation of administrative posts by men of two, three and more fiefs, an abuse which threatened to follow the overthrow of Vojihna—he must have been accused by someone that Sudić allegedly conspired to assist Vojihna's enemies and was imprisoned for five months, along with another "accomplice" by the name of Kijevac. While in prison he wrote in "An Inscription": The probable date of the inscription is the year 1360. The manuscript in which that inscription was included was burnt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atanasije (scribe)
Atanasije and Atanasije the Serb ( sr-cyr, Атанасије; 1200–1265), a disciple of Saint Sava, was a Serbian monk-scribe who lived and worked in Serbia in the Middle Ages. In the 13th century, it was common for monk-scribes not to speak or write about themselves, always cognizant of the fact that their station in life was modest, focussing on the activities of their lords. It is not surprising that very little is known about him. His hymn to Saint Sava, however, has been preserved in Domentijan's biography of Saint Sava in the part describing the return of Saint Sava's relics from Trnovo, Bulgaria, to the Mileševa monastery in Raška. On that occasion, according to Domentijan, the monk-scribe Atanasije wrote and read the "Eulogy to Saint Sava". See also * Saint Sava the founder of Serbian medieval literature * Teodosije the Hilandarian (1246-1328), one of the most important Serbian writers in the Middle Ages * Elder Grigorije (fl. 1310-1355), builder of Saint Archangels M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romylos Of Vidin
Romylos of Vidin also known as Romylos of Ravanica or Romylus the Athonite (''Romil Svetogorac'', ''Romil Svetogorski''); ( bg, Ромил Бдински; sr, Ромил Раванички) was a 14th-century Bulgarian cleric, a disciple of Gregory of Sinai. He is also known as the teacher of Grigorije of Gornjak. He is regarded as part of both Bulgarian and Serbian literature. Biography He was born in Vidin, Tsardom of Vidin c. 1330 and died in the Ravanica Monastery, Serbia c. 1385. Romylos was among the brightest followers of the Hesychast tradition in the Eastern Orthodox Church in the 14th century. In the wake of the Ottoman conquest of Bulgaria Romylos was among the many Bulgarian intellectuals who emigrated to neighbouring Orthodox countries and brought their talents and texts. His tomb is in the church narthex of the Monastery of Ravanica, Serbian Despotate. Life He was born in the first quarter of the fourteenth century in the "valiant and glorious city Vidin", n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elder Siluan
Siluan ( sr-cyr, Силуан; 14th century) was a Serbian Orthodox monk and poet who lived and worked in the Hilandar monastery at Mount Athos in the 14th century. Very little is known about him. The mystical tradition of prayer known as hesychasm left a strong imprint in Serbian medieval literature and art, which is evident already in the works of Domentijan and Teodosije the Hilandarian, but most prominently in the writings of archbishop Danilo II, patriarch Jefrem, monk Isaija and Siluan. Siluan is the author of hymns to Saint Sava and St. Simeon (Stefan Nemanja). History knows of two Serbian monks called Siluan active on Athos, living two centuries apart, but researchers have been inclined to credit the 14th century Siluan with the authorship of ''Verses for St. Simeon'' and ''Verses for Sava''. The analyses of the two Old Serbian verbal ornaments, attributed to the 14th-century Siluan, appear in the work of Roman Jakobson; Siluan is presented as one of the most enlightened ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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