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Répertoire des manuscrits grecs enluminés (IX e – X e s.) Vol. 1

Author: Axinia Dzurova
Year of publication: 2006
ISBN: 9540723736, 9789540723730
Pages: 326
Cover: hard cover, big size
Publisher: UI Sv. Kliment Okhridski
Language: French and Bulgarian

The edition is the first volume of the Repertoire of decorated Greek manuscripts from the biggest collection in Bulgaria,numbering about 460 units of IX to XIX century, kept at the Centre forSlavo-Byzantine Studies “Ivan Duichev” to the Sofia University “St.Kliment Okhridski”. This collection includes Greek manuscripts from twolarge monasteries of Northern Greece – “St. John the Precursor” nearSerres and “St. Mary Ikosifinitsa” near Drama, as well as from the private libraries of professors Ivan Duichev, Asen Vasilev, PeturDinekov, from the Sofia University Library and from purchases and donations since 1988, after the opening of the Centre” Ivan Duichev”.
The first volume provides a complete repertoire of ornamental decoration and miniatures of 11 Codes and 6 fragments from the IX-X century.

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Répertoire des manuscrits grecs enluminés (XI e – XII e s.) Vol. 2

Author: Axinia Dzurova
Year of publication: 2021
ISBN: 9789540755083
Pages: 454
Cover: hard cover, big size
Publisher: UI Sv. Kliment Okhridski
Language: French and Bulgarian

The book examines the repertoire of Greek decorated manuscripts from the XI-XII centuries.
Table of contents:
Manuscrits bibliques
Manuscrits patristiques
Ménées
Manuscrits hagiographiques

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Repertoire des manuscrits grecs enlumines (XІII e – XІV e s.) Vol. 3

Author: Axinia Dzurova
Year of publication: 2022
ISBN: 9789540755236
Pages: 482
Cover: hard cover, big size
Publisher: UI Sv. Kliment Okhridski
Language: French and Bulgarian

The edition is a result of nearly 50 years of research by the author of the largest collection of Greek manuscripts preserved on the territory of Bulgaria, spanning the chronological range from the 9th to the 19th century. Of the over 450 Greek manuscripts, half of them are from the 9th-14th century period. From them, the author has selected 86 in view of the peculiarities of their decoration.   Each volume contains a preface outlining the peculiarities of the different types and styles in the decoration of the respective period; annotations to each manuscript, with an emphasis on the decoration and illustrations and its location within a wide geographical area, covering both the production of the Constantinople workshops and those of Mainland Greece, as well as production in the eastern and western Byzantine provinces. Each manuscript is also represented by color illustrations.

The series is intended for specialists in the decoration of medieval manuscripts, but also for teaching students of Greek palaeography, codicology and art history, in a word for those interested in medieval codex culture in general. The three volumes are also of interest to researchers of the Slavic manuscript tradition, which developed in direct connection with that of Byzantium, but also suffered its own modifications and interpretations. In general, the research is the result of the author’s long-term studies in the field of model-recipient, center-periphery relationships, scriptoriums and traveling writers and calligraphers.

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The Post-Byzantine Greek and Slavic Archives of the Athonite Monastery of Kastamonitou and its History according to the So-Called Legend (Logos Historikos) of Kastamonitou (Codex Kastamonitou no. 114). Diplomatic Edition of 46 Greek, Serbian, Moldavian and Wallachian Documents Kept in Kastamonitou (1429—1819), Protaton (1784—1856) and Docheiariou (1578—1763). Critical Edition of Codex Kastamonitou No.114 and Of The Legend Of Kastamonitou

Author: Cyril Pavlikianov
Year of publication: 2020
ISBN: 9789540749433
Pages: 560
Cover: hard cover
Publisher: UI „Sv. Kliment Okhridski”
Language: English

Prof. Dr. Cyril P. Pavlikianov, Dr. Habilitatus (D.Sc.), Ph.D., M.A. was born in Sofia in 1965. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Byzantine History at the National and Capodistrian University of Athens in 1998. He has been Assistant Professor of Modern Greek Philology (1998–2001) and Associate Professor of Byzantine Literature (2001–2007) at the Faculty of Classical and Modern Philology of the University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski”. In 2004 he obtained the scholarly degree Doctor Habilitatus (Doctor Scientiarum) in Mediaeval History, and in 2007 he was elected full Professor of Byzantine Philology and Palaeography.
The monograph offers the reader a critical edition of all the post-Byzantine Greek and Slavic acts kept in the Athonite monastery of Kastamonitou (30 documents). Moreover, it publishes the texts of 10 acts of Kastamonitou preserved in the archives of the Protaton, 6 acts of Docheiariou pertaining to Kastamonitou, and the full text of Codex Kastamonitou no. 114, which contains the so-called “The Legend of Kastamonitou”, or “Logos Historikos about Kastamonitou”.

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Thracian Secret Societies

Author: Valeria Fol
Year of publication: 2020
ISBN: 9786199150702
Pages: 216
Cover: hard cover
Publisher: Tangra TanNakRa
Language: English and Bulgarian

English and Bulgarian text. The monograph centers on men’s secret societies of aristocrats in Ancient Thrace. The knowledge and rites, in which the brotherhood’s members are initiated, are linked to Thracian royal ideology and oral Thracian Orphism. The author also discusses the available information about specific behavioral restrictions and prohibitions, that abide the aristocrats-priest-warriors, the sacred drinks, the words of the sacred language and various ritual practices.

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The coinage of Philippopolis.
Volume 1: Chronology of Philipopolis Coinage, Dating, Reverse Types, Denominations.
Volume 2: Catalogue

Author: Ivan Varbanov
Year of publication: 2019
ISBN: 9789549080193; 9789549080100
Pages: 622
Cover: hard cover
Publisher: Adikom
Language: English

In the first volume, the chronology of the Philippopolis coinage and all the averse coin types are presented, as well as all varieties of their averse and reverse inscriptions. The dating of these coins, which is an important element of their identification, is also presented in details. The reverse types depicted on the Philippopolis coins, as well as all their variants, were examined in depth. An important part of the first volume is also the presentation of the denominations issued in this mint. Generally, they are divided into six separate denominations, as the medallions are presented separately. Each nominal is presented using detailed tables with all the available parameters of the specimens used. At the end of each denomination, the average coin parameters of each emperor or member of his family, whose images are depicted on coins of that denomination, are presented. There are graphs added, showing a graphical representation of the maximum, the average and the minimum coin weight of the respective denomination, which enables the graphical tracing of the changes at the different emperors. There are also graphs giving the maximum, the average and the minimum coin diameter of each denomination where the changes of this parameter can be traced over time and with each emperor. There are inevitably such that lack some of their parameters: size, weight or axis. All the parameters available have been used when compiling these tables, therefore a certain discrepancy may occur between the number of coins with a given diameter and of those with a given weight for each denomination. However, this method makes it possible for more information to be used for each parameter of the corresponding denomination, which makes the average parameter much more accurate and minimizes its interpolation.
In the second volume, the systematized catalog with the coin images is presented. For the creation of this catalog have been used  over 8000 coins from the Philippopolis mint. Due to the large contents of all available specimens, the catalog has been optimized and an optimal number of coins is presented so that absolutely all the subspecies and varieties specified in this study can be presented.

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Josef Pitter (1881 – 1925)

Author: Co.
Year of publication: 2015
ISBN: 9789543984145
Pages: 173
Cover: hard cover
Publisher: Trud, Bulgarian Cultural Institute – Praga
Language: Bulgarian, English and Czech

This multilingual album contains the biography and an album with more than 200 works and documents by the Czech artist lived in Bulgaria – Josef Pitter (1881 – 1925). This catalogue of the artist consider to be the founder of Bulgarian printed graphics, is once again a testimony to the role Czech culture plays in the development of an independent Bulgaria. It reveals yet another aspect of the Czech presence in Bulgaria, of the creative and spiritual achievements of Czech intellectuals realized in Bulgaria; and affords an opportunity to give deserved attention to a great master and his outstanding contribution to the Czech artist Josef Pitter is associated with the history of Bulgarian culture of the early 20th century.

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The Treasures of Bulgaria

Author: Rumyana Nikolova and Nikolai Genov
Year of publication: 2019
ISBN: 9789542827719
Pages: 448 
Cover: hard cover
Publisher: Ciela
Language: English and Bulgarian

Bulgaria keeps, as if in a vault, natural phenomena of immense value. There are no world records here, but a territory as small as that contains a remarkable variety of natural wonders, plants and wildlife, reminiscences of our planet’s early days. The natural phenomena have their own special place in the book. Every other step you encounter a new miracle or curiosity in Bulgaria’s awe-inspiring landscape, rippled by mountain chains. Wild animals and hundreds of flowers, shrubs and trees have chosen Bulgaria as their homeland.The world’s most beautiful encounter between sea and land is here.

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