The Hilandar Research Library obtained microfilms of 16 Slavic Cyrillic manuscripts, two Greek manuscripts, and one English charter in an exchange of materials with the British Library, London, in 1993. The Slavic manuscripts are described in Ralph Cleminson's A Union Catalogue of Cyrillic Manuscripts in British and Irish Collections/The Anne Pennington Catalogue (London: School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, 1988). Abbreviated descriptions of some of the items are available on the British Library website, and links to these descriptions are also provided below.
These manuscripts on microfilm may be viewed on site in the Jack and Jan Creighton Reading Room of the William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library on the campus of The Ohio State University. Permission to make copies from the films must be obtained from the British Library.
Add. MS 8160
Firman of Selim Khan, Bosnian, 1519
A roll with cloth backing
References: Cleminson, 65-66, no. 51; Monica Partridge, "Three Slavonic Manuscripts from Yugoslavia now in England," Zbornik u čast Stjepana Ivšića (Zagreb, 1963), 281-290; Veronica M. Du Feu, "The Firman of 1519: Problems Geographical and Paleographical," Polata knigopisnaia 9 (1984): 79-80.
Add MS 10394
Anchorites' rule, Serbo-Croatian, 1514
"Paper. 94 fols. 218 x 155 mm. 1 col., 165 x 110 mm. 23 lines. Col. inits., rubrics.
"Fol. 94: 'Deo gracias xv kalendas Nouembris Finis 1514.'
"The script, a humanistica cursiva, changes in style at fol. 89 but may be in one hadn. The language appears to be the 'ča[kavian]' dialect of Serbocroatian (see R.G.A. de Bray, Guide to the Slavonic Languages (1969), 328)*. The MS may have originated on the Dalmatian coast or on one of the Adriatic islands.
"*I am indebted to Miss P.J. Willetts for guidance on this point."
References: Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts, The British Library, 2 vols. (London: The Library, 1979), 1:28-29, no. 30.
Add. MS 16373
Leitourgikon, Bosnian/Serbian Church Slavonic, 1706
I + 169 + II leaves
References: Cleminson 70-72, no. 55; Aksiniia Dzhurova, Slavonic Manuscripts from the British Museum and Library (Sofia, 1977), no. 21, plates LI-LV; Dimitrije Stefanović, "Paleografske beleske o starim srpskim i nekim drugim rukopisima u Velikoj Britaniji," Arheografski prilozi 6-7 (1984-1985): 51-130, see 60-62.
Add. MS 19393
Gospels (fragment), Serbian, circa 14th century
VI + 8 + VI leaves
References: Cleminson 74, no. 57; Aksiniia Dzhurova, Slavonic Manuscripts from the British Museum and Library (Sofia, 1977), no. 7; Dimitrije Stefanović, "Paleografske beleske o starim srpskim i nekim drugim rukopisima u Velikoj Britaniji," Arheografski prilozi 6-7 (1984-1985): 51-130, see 62-63.
Add. MS 26839
Gospels, Serbian, 14th century
III + 240 + III leaves
References: Cleminson 78-80, no. 62; Dimitrije Stefanović, "Paleografske beleske o starim srpskim i nekim drugim rukopisima u Velikoj Britaniji," Arheografski prilozi 6-7 (1984-1985): 51-130, see 63-65.
Add. MS 27442
Homilies of St. Basil and others, Bulgarian, mid-14th century
II + 403 + I leaves
References: Cleminson 80-86, no. 63; Aksiniia Dzhurova, Slavonic Manuscripts from the British Museum and Library (Sofia, 1977), no. 19.
Add. MS 30030
Gospels, Moldavian/Bulgarian Church Slavonic, 16th century
II + 306 + I + II + I leaves
References: Cleminson 88-90, no. 66.
Add. MS 32162
Gospels, Serbian, 13th/14th century
II + 134 + III leaves
References: Cleminson 113-114, no. 71; Aksiniia Dzhurova, Slavonic Manuscripts from the British Museum and Library (Sofia, 1977), no. 2, plates IV and V; Dimitrije Stefanović, "Paleografske beleske o starim srpskim i nekim drugim rukopisima u Velikoj Britaniji," Arheografski prilozi 6-7 (1984-1985): 51-130, see 65-66.
Add. MS 37233
Gospels, Moldavian/Bulgarian Church Slavonic, 16th century
I + 339 + I leaves
References: Cleminson 115-116, no. 74; Aksiniia Dzhurova, Slavonic Manuscripts from the British Museum and Library (Sofia, 1977), no. 13, plates XLII.
PARHAM MANUSCRIPTS XLIII-XLVI.
The next four manuscripts, MSS. 39625-39628, form part of the Parham Manuscripts collection - 89 manuscripts donated by Darea Curzon, Baroness Zouche (d. 1917), daughter of the 14th Baron Zouche, Robert Curzon (d. 1873), to the British Museum.
Add. MS 39625
Gospels, Bulgarian, 14th century
I + 208 + I leaves
References: Cleminson 118-119, no. 76; Aksiniia Dzhurova, Slavonic Manuscripts from the British Museum and Library (Sofia, 1977), no. 5, plates XVI-XXI.
Add. MS 39626
Gospels, Serbian, 1355
I + 302 + I leaves
References: Cleminson 119-121, no. 77; Aksiniia Dzhurova, Slavonic Manuscripts from the British Museum and Library (Sofia, 1977), no. 3, plates VI-IX; Dimitrije Stefanović, "Paleografske beleske o starim srpskim i nekim drugim rukopisima u Velikoj Britaniji," Arheografski prilozi <6-7 (1984-1985): 51-130, see 66-71.
Add. MS 39627
The Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander, Bulgarian, 1356
I + 286 leaves
References: Cleminson 121-123, no. 78; Aksiniia Dzhurova, Slavonic Manuscripts from the British Museum and Library (Sofia, 1977), no. 4, plates X-XV; Bogdan Filov, Miniatiurite na Londonskoto evangelie na Tsar' Ivan Aleksandra (Sofia, 1934); Liudmila Zhivkova, Chetveroevangelieto na Tsar Ivan Aleksandŭr (Sofia, 1980), eadem, Chetveroevangelie Tsaria Ivana Aleksandra: s cherno-belymi reproduktsiiami polnogo teksta originala i shestidesiatiu chetyrmia tsvetnymi faksimile (Sofia, 1980); Ekaterina Dimitrova, The Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander (London: British LIbrary, 1994); edited by Rumiana Stoianova, Diliana Ruseva,Metodii Petrikov, Elisaveta Musakova, and Heinz Miklas, Chetirievangelie na tsar Ivan Aleksandŭr: fototipno izdanie (Sofiia, 2018).
Digital version: See blog about digital version. Digital images no longer available for download from the British Library website.
Add. MS 39628
The Curzon Gospels, Bulgarian, 14th century (1354?)
I + 198 + I leaves
Note: Slavonic names of the months are used along with the Greek in the synaxarian portion of the text.
References: Cleminson 123-124, no. 79; Aksiniia Dzhurova, Slavonic Manuscripts from the British Museum and Library (Sofia, 1977), no. 1, plates I-III (ff. 44r, 75, 130v, respectively); Cynthia Vakareliyska, "A Preliminary Comparison of the Curzon and Banica Gospels," Oxford Slavonic Papers, New Series, 26 (1993): 1-39; eadem, "Sŭvpadeniia i razliki v teksta i mesetsoslova na dva blizki rŭkopisa: Kŭrzonovoto i Banishkoto evangeliia (Coincidences and discrepancies in the text and menology of two closely-related manuscripts: The Curzon and Banica Gospels)," Palaeobulgarica 18.1 (1994): 58-67; eadem, "Preceniavane na mesetsoslova ot Banishkoto evangelie: Novi danni ot edin sestrin rŭkopis (A reassessment of the menology to the Banica Gospel: New evidence from a sister manuscript)," in Bulgarian-American Perspectives: Sixth Joint Meeting of North American and Bulgarian Scholars, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, May 30 - June 2, 1999, ed. by Anissava Miltenova (Sofia, 2000), 219-232; eadem, The Curzon Gospel: Volume I: An Annotated Edition; Volume II: A Linguistic and Textual Introduction (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008); eadem, "Serbian-type Features in the Curzon Gospel," Zeitschrift für Slawistik 56 (2011): 108-118.
Add. MS 41087
Miscellany of Saints' Lives, Bulgarian and Serbian, 15th century
II + 264 + III leaves
References: Cleminson 125-128, no. 81; Aksiniia Dzhurova, Slavonic Manuscripts from the British Museum and Library (Sofia, 1977), no. 24, plates LVII; Dimitrije Stefanović, "Paleografske beleske o starim srpskim i nekim drugim rukopisima u Velikoj Britaniji," Arheografski prilozi 6-7 (1984-1985): 51-130, see 71-74.
Add. MS 41256
Gospels, Serbian, 14th century
II + II + 296 + 18 + II leaves
References: Cleminson 129-130, no. 82; Aksiniia Dzhurova, Slavonic Manuscripts from the British Museum and Library (Sofia, 1977), no. 8, plate XXVI; Dimitrije Stefanović, "Paleografske beleske o starim srpskim i nekim drugim rukopisima u Velikoj Britaniji," Arheografski prilozi 6-7 (1984-1985): 51-130, see 74-75.
Add. MS 57524
Miscellany, Rumanian/Bulgarian Church Slavonic, early 17th century
I + 136 leaves
References: Cleminson 134-135, no. 86; Aksiniia Dzhurova, Slavonic Manuscripts from the British Museum and Library (Sofia, 1977), no. 8, plate XXVI; Dennis Deletant, "Un manuscris al lui Mihail Moxa din Muzeul Britanic," Revista de istorie şi teorie literara 24 (1975): 255-262.
Harley MS 6311B
Gospels, Rumanian/Bulgarian Church Slavonic, 1574
II + 278 + II leaves
References: Cleminson 161-162, no. 107; Moses Gaster, "La Versione rumena del Vangelo di Matteo tratta dal Tetraevangelion del 1574 (ms. del Museo Britannico: Harley 6311b)," Archivo glottologico italiano 12 (1890-1892): 197-254; Aksiniia Dzhurova, Slavonic Manuscripts from the British Museum and Library (Sofia, 1977), no. 10, plates XXXII-XXXVII.
GREEK & SLAVIC
Add. MS 24376
Gospels, Greek with four South Slavic full-page miniatures, 14th century
Miniatures: Annunciation (f. 5v), St. Mark (f. 103v), St. Luke (f. 167v), St. John and Prochorus (f. 271v)
References: Cleminson 76-77, no. 60; William Henry Paine Hatch, Facsimiles and Descriptions of Minuscule Manuscripts of the New Testament (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1951), 194-195, plate LXI [fol. 215 = Luke 10.30-35].
Arundel MS 528
Compilation for Makarios, Bishop of Helicz, Modern Greek and Slavic, 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Slavic texts on leaves marked 61r-62v, 183r-184v
ENGLISH
Add. Ch 26097
Grant of lands in Derbyshire and Devonshire, 1297-1364