Bitola Triodion | |
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Битолски триод | |
Size | 27.5 x 19.5 cm |
Writing | Glagolitic, Cyrillic |
Created | 12th century |
Discovered | 1907 Bitola |
Discovered by | Yordan Ivanov |
Present location | Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria |
Identification | X. No. 38 |
Language | Middle Bulgarian |
The Bitola Triodion is a Middle Bulgarian Glagolitic manuscript that contains a triodion from the late 12th century.
In 1898, the manuscript was brought to the Bulgarian Trade Agency in Bitola from a nearby village, along with other Slavic and Greek manuscripts.[1] Historian Yordan Ivanov found it in Bitola in 1907. It is now kept in the library of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia.[2]
The triodion contains 101 leaves of parchment, each sized to 27.5 x 19.5 cm. According to Ivanov, it was written in the village of Svetovrache by Georgi Gramatik.[3] Along with usual service prayers, it contains a hymographic cycle of Konstantin of Preslav. It is written in Cyrillic with traces of Glagolitic, which is considered to be a characteristic feature of manuscripts from the Bulgarian region.
Some scholars assume that it is a direct copy of an older, Glagolitic book.[4] The document contains musical notation, and a frequent use of the self-theta (Θ), which is written in black and red ink. The sign is placed above individual words to inform singers of musical ornamentation.[5]
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