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In English with German and Russian summaries. Original text in Slavonic. Hard cover, 22x32 cm, 280 pp., ill.; net weight 950 gr. ISBN: 978-954-07-5305-8.The Enina Apostolus was discovered in December 1960 in the village of Enina near the town of Kazanlak, a sub-Balkan town located at the southern foot of the Balkan Mountain. Only 39 folios of the manuscript were found, some of them merely fragments in extremely poor condition. In particular, the parchment of most of the folios is very dark, so that the portions of the text on them are invisible to the naked eye. After restoration, it was determined that the manuscript was in Old Church Slavonic and of Bulgarian origin, and that its content were that of a short lectionary apostolus (Acts and Epistles). The manuscript was deciphered and published in 1965 by the Bulgarian scholars Kiril Mirchev and Hristo Kodov. Their book is a model medieval manuscript edition: in addition to the reproduction of the text, it contains a description of the palaeographic… Read More