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Bashkioi Copy of “Slaveno-Bulgarian History”
This handwritten copy of Paisiĭ Khilendarski’s Istoriia slavianobolgarskaia (Slaveno-Bulgarian history) was made in 1841 by the priest Vasilii Manuilov. In addition to the main text, the manuscript contains accounts of two miracles of the Holy Mother. First published in 1762, Paisiĭ’s history encouraged the Bulgarians, who had been under Ottoman rule for centuries, to discover their national consciousness and to embrace the Bulgarian language. The work was so influential that it was copied by hand and excerpted many times without Paisiĭ being identified as the author or his ...
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The Life of Meriasek
Until recently, when Beunans Ke came to light, Beunans
Meriasek was the only known saint's play in Middle Cornish. St
Meriasek was
of Breton origin. The play presents his career, starting with his early
education in Brittany and his arrival in Cornwall, recounting the
various miracles he performed,
then moves on to his return to Brittany,
where he became Bishop of Vannes and eventually died a Christian death.
Incorporated into the narrative are a number of individual tales,
including
incidents from the life of St. Sylvester and a miracle ...
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