Slavonic Musical Manuscripts in Rila Monastery

Slavonic musical manuscripts in Rila monastery is a book, published in 2012 as a result of a project sponsored by the Bulgarian Ministry of Education, Youth and Science. The purpose of the project is a detailed description of all musical manuscripts, kept now in Rila monastery. ‘Slavonic musical manuscripts…’ is the first volume of the project: next volumes will be focused on the musical manuscripts written in Greek as well as those bilingual manuscripts written in both Church Slavonic and Greek. Forty-one musical manuscripts, written in Church Slavonic and notated with Chrysantine notation are described in this volume. Five Bulgarian scientists from different fields of study (musicology, codicology, paleography, art history) are the authors: Asen Atanasov, Svetlana Kujumdzieva, Vasya Velinova, Elena Uzunova and Elissaveta Moussakova.

For the first time, such an analytical description of Slavonic musical manuscripts from the Balkans is published.