Four Gospels of Târgoviște explained

Four Gospels of Târgoviște
Publisher:	25 June 1512

The Four Gospels of Târgoviște is a printed version of the four gospels, printed in 1512 in the Bulgarian redaction^[1] of Church Slavonic.^[2] The book contains 179 pages and uses the Tarnovo Literary School spelling rules. It was printed in Târgoviște, the capital of Wallachia at the time, at the behest of the Voivode Neagoe Basarab. The edition is ornately decorated by Serbian Hieromonk Makarije.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Ivan N. Petrov (2021) The Development of the Bulgarian Literary Language: From Incunabula to First Grammars, Late Fifteenth – Early Seventeenth Century, Rowman & Littlefield,, p. 81.
2. http://eslavsanct.net/home.php?text=Sources Das Tetraevangelium des Makarije aus dem Jahre 1512. Der erste kirchenslavische Evangeliendruck. Faksimile-Ausgabe. Besorgt und eingeleitet von Heinz Miklas unter Mitwirkung von Stefan Godorogea und Christian Hannick. Padreborn, Muenchen, Wien, Zuerich, 1999. (=Biblia Slavica IV/1).
3. Старобългарска литература: енциклопедичен речник (съст. Д. Петканова). С., 2003, 520.