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Book/Printed Material Priest Puncho Miscellany of 1796.

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Title

  • Priest Puncho Miscellany of 1796.

Summary

  • This intriguing manuscript was written in the vernacular Bulgarian of the late 18th century and was intended to be printed. The content of the manuscript consists of literary texts compiled from older manuscripts, Russian printed books, apocrypha, a reworked version of the first real Bulgarian chronicle, Paisiĭ Khilendarski's Istoriia slavianobolgarskaia (Slaveno-Bulgarian history), as well as texts of unspecified or unknown origin. The illumination, although stylistically naive, is very rich. It includes two self-portraits of the scribe and compiler Puncho, together with numerous miniatures, some of them with unusual iconography. Puncho was a village priest from Mokresh in the Lom region who, because of this work, turned out to be an important literary figure of the Bulgarian National Revival era of the 1760s to the 1870s. The sources that he used have not been fully researched.

Names

  • Paisiĭ, Khilendarski, Hieromonk, born circa 1722 Contributor.
  • Puncho, priest Compiler.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1796 to 1814]

Headings

  • -  Bulgaria
  • -  1760 to 1870
  • -  Bulgarian literature
  • -  Illuminations
  • -  Miniatures (Illuminations)

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 383 sheets ; 205 x 150 millimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: National Library of Bulgaria.
  • -  Content in Bulgarian.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Illuminated Manuscripts from Europe

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021667514

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Paisiĭ, Khilendarski, Hieromonk, Born Circa 1722 Contributor, and Priest Compiler Puncho. Priest Puncho Miscellany of. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1814, 1796] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667514/.

APA citation style:

Paisiĭ, K. & Puncho, P. C. (1796) Priest Puncho Miscellany of. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1814] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667514/.

MLA citation style:

Paisiĭ, Khilendarski, Hieromonk, Born Circa 1722 Contributor, and Priest Compiler Puncho. Priest Puncho Miscellany of. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1814, 1796] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021667514/>.