Скитский Патерик

"The 'Scete Paterikon' is the Slavonic translation of a Greek collection of Apophthegmata Patrum. The Slavonic text (ca. 96000 words) is the longest as yet identified to belong to the period of the mission to Morava (863-885); it can be attributed to St Methodius. Its impact on the conversion of the Slavs to Christianity was massive, as witnessed by the efflorescence of monastic establishments in and around the cities of Pliska and Preslav in Bulgaria after 886 and the similar efflorescence at Kiev in Russia after 1036. Consequently, it has a massive and uninterrupted manuscript tradition well into the 17th century. All the major branches of this tradition are identified and represented in this edition, which is not, as customary in Slavic studies, an edition of a single manuscript. It presents two versions of the text, a Cyrillic textus receptus and a Glagolitic textus reconstructus, their differences recorded in a full index of words and forms, of which roughly a quarter are not attested in the so-called canon of Slavonic manuscripts"--Summary from Erasmus Boekhandel.