In the collection of the research library of St. Petersburg State University there is a parchment fragment from the Gospels dated to the 14th century. A. A. Savel’ev, the SPbSU local cataloger, describes the manuscript:
NB SPbGU MS E III 141
Tetraevangelie, fragment. 14th cent., 4 (26 x 19), 4 ff., uncial
Parchment.
Text in two columns, initials and notes in cinnabar.
Contains a fragment from the Gospel according to Matthew: 5:25-6:23. Bulgarian recension (?).
Without binding.
On f. 1 is an owner’s inscription dated 1858 “бысть в руце агаряна и избависе”; on f. 2 in the same hand is an inscription that indicates the Gospel belonged to Holy Trinity Monastery.
Literature: “Предварительный список славяно-русских рукописей ХI-XIV вв., хранящихся в СССР.” Археографический ежегодник за 1965 г. Москва, 1966. 177-272, № 1025.
