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Рукопись из Добромирских дебрей: о фрагментах Слепченского требника кон. XIII в.
In 2022, fragments of a Serbian manuscript from the late 13th century were found in
the Scientific Library of Kazan University (Russia). We managed to identify them as
parts of the Trebnik (Book of Needs), which are kept in various collections in Russia.
This is a manuscript, parts of which were brought from the Slepchensky Monastery
in 1845, 1857 and 1865 by Viktor Grigorovich, Alexander Gilferding and Archimandrite
Antonin Kapustin, respectively. Obviously, parts of the codex were scattered
around the Slepchensky Monastery, but even later, in Russia, they were divided into
smaller fragments. Before Slavic studies became a real science, ancient manuscripts
were perceived as a relic. That is why Grigorovich and many others could tear out
sheets from codices or donate small parts of manuscripts to private persons or universities
as a sign of involvement in the wonderful world Slavic antiquities. Unique
texts from different parts of the manuscript were published by Fyodor Buslaev in
the 19th century and Vyacheslav Zagrebin in the 20th. The study of the texts of the
manuscript is ongoing. At present, the surviving manuscript contains 170 sheets of
parchment, and there is still hope that some parts of it may yet be found.