Prepared by : Jelena Cvetanovska

  II Significant apocryphal texts:

ISAIA’S VISION :

-The oldest Slavonic transcription ever kept ,with this apocryphal text is the Uspen’s transcription from XII century,there is another shorter form in the Collection of Dragol from XIII century,cyrillic letter,serbian redaction,made over the base of an older macedonian offer from XI century (the prototype is not found);J.Ivanov considers that this text is made in the area between Rila,Vitosha and Osogovo,in one chronicle inscription is mentioned that the body of Isaia is buried in Osogovo Monastery,by Osogovo is placed a village named Kutugerci,where were bigots living,which they have named them kutugeri,by the way the Vision of Isaia in authentic latin is also called The Secret Book ,some researchers consider that only this text from the apocryphal inheritance has pass through a bigot’s redaction(besides The Secret Book, The questions of the gospeler John-for which the maggior of the researchers considers that it is an original bigot work) a phototype edition of the Collection of Dragol don’t exsist and the manuscript is kept in the Public Liberary in Beograd.

 

The Tiberian Sea

 

-A transcription from Bars from XVI century ;the only south- slavonic manuscript found in 1845 in Macedonia in the Monastery of Slepche by V.Grigorovic,it is kept in Russia.

  

The vision of disciple Paul

  

-russian,serbian and macedonian elements on a fondation on which Blaze Koneski supposes that it was made in Sveta Gora;in Macedonia –The Tikvesh Collection from the end of XV century and the very beginning of XVI century,in the text there is edonia,this apocryphal text was one of the most favorite;The Tikvesh Collection has no phototype edition,the manuscript is kept in the Public Liberary in Sofia.

  

Book of Enoh

  

-one of the versions titled like Books for the Holy secrets of Enoh ,that has origins from XVI-XVII century,was brought by Jordan Haji Konstantinov Djinot in the Public Liberary in Belgrade  where it’s kept today.