The Synaxarion Life of St Methodius of Moravia occupies an important place among the Slavic sources on Cyril and Methodius and their disciples. Although it is one of the earliest Slavic sources that was discovered, the original text of the work is still to be explored. Therefore, the important questions of the time and the place of its occurrence have not been answered yet. Few of the copies of the Life have been published. Most scholars believe that this is a late text, which probably occurred among Southern Slavs but survived only in Russian copies. In 1989 Sv. Nikolova published the only Moldavian copy of the Life known at that moment (ms No.10 from the collection of the church museum “St Nicholas” in Brašov) and the documentary evidence confirmed the Bulgarian origin of the work. A second Moldavian copy of the Life is published in the present article for the first time (RGB, f. 98, collection of E. Egorov, No. 105, Service Menaion and Prologue for May, Moldavian manuscript, 1587). It has distinct Middle Bulgarian features that are yet another proof of the work’s Bulgarian origin.
Boyka Mircheva (Sofia, Bulgaria)
D o b r o v s k i ĭ, Ĭ. Kirill i Mefodiĭ, slovenskie pervouchiteli. Istoriko-kriticheskoe issledovanie. Perevod s nemetskogo [M. Pogodina]. Moskva, 1825.
F. 98. E. E. E g o r o v. Opis’ sobraniia. T. 2. №№ 101–200. XІV–XІX vv. Moskva, 2014 https://img.lib-fond.ru/%D0%A0%D0%93%D0%91/%D0%A4.98%20%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5%20%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BD%D1%8B%D1%85%20%D0%BA%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B3%20%D0%95.%20%D0%95.%20%D0%95%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0/98.pdf.
K u e v, K. Prolozhnite zhitia na Kiril i Metodiy v leningradskite knigohranilishta. – Palaeobulgarica, 9 (1985), № 1, s. 8–36.
K u k u s h k i n a, M. V. Monastyrskie biblioteki Russkogo Severa. Ocherki istorii knizhnoĭ kul’tury XVI–XVII vekov. Leningrad, 1977.
L a v r o v, P. A. Materialy po istorii vozniknoveniia drevneĭsheĭ slavianskoĭ pis’mennosti. Leningrad, 1930.
L a m a n s k i ĭ, V. I. Slavianskoe zhitie sv. Kirilla kak religiozno-epicheskoe proizvedenie i kak istoricheskiĭ istochnik. – Zhurnal Ministerstva narodnogo prosviashcheniia, 352, aprel’ 1904, s. 215–239.
M i r c h e v a, B. Spiski slavianskikh istochnikov dlia izucheniia zhizni i deiatel’nosti Kirilla i Mefodiia i ikh uchenikov v biblioteke Solovetskogo monastyria (RNB). – V: Slavianskoe i balkanskoe yazykoznanie. Paleoslavistika: Leksikologia i tekstologia. K 100-letiiu R. M. Tseitlin. Vyp. 21. Institut slavianovedeniia RAN, Moskva, 2021, 205–231.
N i k o l o v a, Sv. Za vaznikvaneto na Prolozhnoto Metodievo zhitie. – V: Literaturoznanie i folkloristika. Sbornik v chest na 70-godishninata na akad. P. Dinekov. Sofia, 1983, s. 89–92.
N i k o l o v a, Sv. K istorii teksta Prolozhnogo zhitiia Mefodiia. – In: Symposium Methodianum. Beiträge der Internationalen Tagung in Regensburg (17. bis 24. April 1985) zum Gedenken an den 1100. Todestag des hl. Method. Neuried, 1988, S. 473–484.
N i k o l o v a, Sv. Razprostranenie nd Prolozhnoto zhitie nа sv. Metodiy v Rusia.– V: 1100 godini ot blazhenata konchina na sv. Metodiy. T. 1. Sofia, 1989, s. 100–109.
Opisanie rukopiseĭ Solovetskogo monastyria, nakhodiashchikhsia v biblioteke Kazanskoĭ Dukhovnoĭ akademii. Ch. 2. Sost. I. Ia. Porfir’ev, A. V. Vadkovskiĭ, N. F. Krasnosel’tsev. Kazan’, 1885.
R o d o s s k i ĭ, A. S. Rukopisi i knigi tserkovnoĭ pechati, postupivshie v biblioteku Sankt-Peterburgskoĭ dukhovnoĭ akademii v 1901 g. – Khristiianskoe chtenie, avgust 1903, s. 247–249.
S v e n t s ї t s’ k y ĭ, I. Opys rukopysiv Narod’noho domu z kolektsii A. Petrushevycha. Ch. 1 (= Rukopysy L’vivskykh zbirok. Vyp. II–III. Ukraїns’ko-rus’kyĭ arkhiv. Vydae Istorychno-filosofichna sektsiia Naukovoho tovarystva im. Shevchenko. T. VI–VII). L’viv, 1906.
V i k t o r o v, A. E. Opisi rukopisnykh sobraniĭ v knigokhranilishchakh Severnoĭ Rossii. Sankt-Peterburg, 1890.