National and University Library "St. Kliment of Ohrid", Skopje (Macedonia) (Old Church Slavonic Manuscripts)
Akafist
“Akafist” is a particular Slavonic genre which was inspired by the Greek Akathistos hymnus, the traditional kondak for the annunciation of the Theotokos / Blagoveštenie (25 March), and different approaches to translate it (since its 24 oikoi were supposed to begin with the letters of the alphabet). Akafisti were as well composed for other occasions and were sometimes collected in a separated book.
- Ms. 98
(about 1500) • "Služebnik of the Akathist chant" for 25 March in Serbian redaction. The whole feast cycle with stichera, troparia, kanon and Akathistos hymnos with two ikosi organised as kondak-ikos pair (ff.5r-12v, 12 ikosi 10-22 on ff. 8-11 are behind folio 15), it follows the seventh ode of the kanon. Manuscript found at the village Klepač (PDF).
- Ms. 109
XVIII • Akafist for St. John the Baptist (ff.1r-16v) and alphabetical Paterik (ff.17r-104r). Manuscript found at Berovo (PDF).
Miney
- Ms. 169
Late XIV • Stoykov Prazničen Miney. Raška school, 2 scribes (earlier hand: ff. 2r-8v, 41r-56v), manuscript found in the village Benče (Porečne) (PDF).
- Ms. SMM 1
1370 (ff. 194-292), XV (ff. 1-193) • Prolozi stihčvan (March-August) in Serbian redaction of the Raška and the later Resavska School (PDF).
- Ms. 18
Early XV • Služben Miney (Menologion) for May with synaxaria (hagiographic lessons) (PDF).
- Ms. 8
1420 • Služben Miney for September with Prologues in Serbian redaction of the Raška School (PDF).
- Ms. 16
Early XVI • Služben Miney with the Prologue for Prohor Pčinjski in Serbian redaction of Resavska School (PDF).
- Ms. 151
First half XVI • Fragment of a Služben Miney. Fragment found in the village Bešište (Mariovo) (PDF).
- Ms. 172
About 1550 • Nikiforov Miney. Complete Miney (September-August) in the Serbian redaction of Resavska School (PDF).
Posen Triod
- Ms. 21
Second half XIII • Fragment of Posen Triod of Macedonian redaction of the Kratovsky School (PDF).
- Ms. AMM II-1
Third quarter XIV • Posen Triod in Macedonian redaction (PDF).
- Ms. 232
End XIV • Fragment of Posen Triod. Bezyusov orthography, found in the Markos Monastery (PDF).
- Ms. AMMF 5
Early XV • Fragment of Posen Triod. Raška School with Serbian elements (extract between Tuesday and fifth Sunday of Lenten tide) (PDF).
- Ms. 57
After 1550 • Fragment with a lesson of Lenten tide. Ekphonetic lesson about the prodigal son for the Sunday of Publican and Pharisean, found at the village Troykrsti (Prilep) (PDF).
Tsveten Triod
- Ms. 77
About 1600 • Fragment of Tsveten Triod with Tiberian-like Lazarevat, Serbian redaction of Resavska School, found in the village Stenče (Tetovsko) (PDF).
- Ms. 96
About 1660 • Fragment of Tsveten Triod. Two fragments around the second and third Sunday after Easter, found at Kratovo (PDF).
- Ms. 122
XVIII • Russian "Flowery Triodion" or Tsveten Triod (complete), found at the village Rosoki (Debar) (PDF).
Osmoglasnik with kanones
- Ms. 183
First half XV • Fragment of an Oktoich. Serbian Ednoerov. Monday Utrenna, Second Ode, Glas 4. Manuscript found at the village Ropotovo (Prilep) (PDF).
- Ms. 168
About 1450 • Porečky Oktoich Glas V-VIII (Pettoglasnik). The old part of the Pettoglasnik for Glas 5-6 (ff. 31-56, Glas 6 f. 49), 6-7 (ff. 60-110, Glas 7 f. 89), 7-8 (ff. 117-143, Glas 8 f. 128) und 8 (ff. 147-175), the rest was added in 1574. Manuscript found at the village Benče (PDF).
- Ms. 233
About 1600 • Fragment of an Oktoich (Thursday Utrenna, Glas 4). Manuscript found in the church of the village Zubovtse (Gostivarsko) (PDF).
- Ms. 108
About 1650 • Fragment of an Osmoglasnik. Evangelski stichiri (stichera heothina) 3-5. Manuscript found at Debar (PDF).
Sbornik (Synekdemos)
- Ms. 9
Early XVI • Liturgisky Sbornik. Orthography of the Resavska School. Early hand (ff. 9-15, 17-18, 24-29) has written the main parts (water marks date to the first half XVI c.), while ff. 1-8, 30-33 has another watermark which dates to the second half XVII century, when the manuscript was completed and rebound (PDF).
- Ms. 142
About 1550 • Strušky Sbornik with hymns by St. Kliment of Ohrid. Macedonian redaction of the Resavska School, written by three hands during the XVI century: first (ff. 1-50 & 65-248), second (ff. 51-58 & 249-256) and third (ff. 59-64). The manuscript was found at Struga (PDF).
- Ms. 111
About 1660 • Liturgisky Sbornik. Polyustav in Serbian ednoerov orthography. Manuscript was found in the church of the village Dračevo (PDF).
- Ms. 6
Illustration (f. 21v) St. Demetrius is attacked by the devil in form of a scorpion.
About 1775 • Sbornik Makedonsky. Church Slavonic with Macedonian bugarizmi (PDF).
Psaltir
- Ms. 143
Early XVI • Psaltir fragment. Resavska School, manuscript found at the village Zubovtse (Gostivarsko) (PDF).
- Ms. 175
About 1550 • Psaltir fragment (Psalm 32-33) with interpunction in red ink. Macedonian Yusov redaction, dvoerov orthography (PDF).
- Ms. 19
Beginning of the flower triod with the Easter kondak (f.308v)
About 1550 • In fact, the classification as psaltir is not correct, because it is only true for the first part of the most voluminous manuscript of the whole collection. It includes all books mentioned here: complete psaltir organised in 20 kathismata with cantica (ff.2r-147), časoslovi with svetilni and trebnik (ff.148r-234v), miney (ff.235r-292v), posten and cvetnaya triod (292v-315r), služba (ff.315r-322r), kanones with scriptural readings (ff.322r-345v), služba with prosomoia and stichera stavrosima (ff.345v-353v), the Utrenna (orthros) with the whole Akathistos hymn for the morning of 25 March (ff.353v-367v). Two scribes of Resavska School. Manuscript restaurated during the early 18th century (PDF).
- Ms. 99
Second half XVI • Psaltir fragment (Psalm 6-7). Serbian redaction of Resavska School (PDF).
- Ms. 163
Second half XVI • Incomplete Psaltir organised in kathismata (Ps. 37 in kathisma 6 on fol. 5v) with interpunction in red ink. Dvoerov and yusov orthography. Manuscript found in the village Kratovo (PDF).
Evangeliya
- Ms. 1
About 1300 • Incomplete "Vrutočko Četvoroevangeliye" written in Bosnia (maiuscule script), only illuminations on ff. 122v-124r have been conservated (with the eagle for John), the others were removed (manuscript starts with Mark 4:13, the second evangelium). The manuscript came to the Monastery of the Holy Trinity of Pljevlja (Montenegro) during the 18th century, then to the Monastery of the Archangel Michael at Vrutok (Gostivarsko) during the 19th century (PDF).
- Ms. 20
About 1350 • Kratovo Četvoroevangeliye with Slavonic ekphonetic notation, written before the reform of Evthymios within the Macedonian Kratovo School under influence of the local Ohrid School (PDF).
- Ms. 184
About 1350 • Fragment of a Četvoroevangeliye (Matth. 11:7-12) of the Raška School. It was found in the village Zletovo (Kratovsko) (PDF).
- Ms. 170
Late XIV • Lectionnary for the weekly epistel and gospel lessons. Slavonic written with some characteristics of the local Galičnot dialect. The manuscript was found in the village Benče (Porečne) (PDF).
- Ms. 43
About 1400 • Cycle of lessons in a fragmentary Četvoroevangeliye, written within the Raška School. Manuscript was found at Kumanovo (PDF).
- Ms. 249
Early XV • "Radobilsky Evangelskiy Listov" Gospel Lectionnary with ekphonetic notation organised in cycles of lessons. Ednoerov and bezyuzov orthography. Manuscript was found in the village Radobil (Prilepsko) (PDF).
- Ms. 167
Early XVI • Benčevsko Četvoroevangeliye (complete) with rubrified lessons, ekphonetic (diple, tromikon) notation and four illuminations, flags in Neobyzantine Balkan style (illumination of St Mark). Appendix with lesson cycles, anastasima prokeimena, and oktoechos table (ff. 339-360). Dvoerov orthography of the Resavska School. Manuscript was found in Benče (Makedonsky Brod) (PDF).
- Ms. 212
Late XVI • Fragment of a Tetraevangelion with reading cycles, probably of the Četvoroevangeliye of Kičevo (Ms. 296 of the Historical Archive in Ohrid). Dvoerov bezyusov orthography (PDF).
- Ms. 157
About 1600 • Zrzevsko Četvoroevangeliye (complete) with rubrified lessons and red kola. Only two of the four illuminations have been conservated (here the one of the last part on f. 173). Appendix with lesson cycles (ff. 222v-228v). Serbian redaction with traces of the Resavska School. Manuscript was found at the town Veles (PDF).
- Ms. 42
Early XVII • Struško Četvoroevangeliye with annotated reading cycles and perikope. Flag of the first part (Matthew Gospel, f. 5r). Appendix with lesson cycles and oktoechos table (ff. 269-277). Serbian redaction within Resavska School. The manuscript was found at Struga (PDF).
- Ms. 156
Early XVII • Fragment of a Gospel Lectionnary (Matth., Mark) with rubrified lessons and differentiated interpunction. Mixed Serbian and Macedonian redaction with yusov orthography. Manuscript found in the Historical Archive of Bitola (PDF).
Replies
The former homepage of the National and University Library “St Kliment of Ohrid” does no longer exist, but the library itself did upload pdfs in low resolution of each manuscript at mk.wikimedia.org.
On the images of the manuscripts is still the blind link. If you would like to find the corresponding page at commons.wikimedia.org click on PDF, please.
Among psaltir you find Ms. 19 which was wrongly classified, since it was too huge to contain just nothing else than the psalter. It has all the other books as well, I inserted an own description.