Priest Nikola

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Priest Nikola
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Born14th Century
NationalitySerbian
CitizenshipSerbia
OccupationMonk

Priest Nikola (14th Century) was a Serbian monk who lived and worked in Raška during the rule of Lazar of Serbia Hrebeljanović. [1]

All that is known of this author is that he transcribed a Meaneon (liturgical book) for the month of August and that he was commissioned to do it by a monk named Joasaf. He wrote "The Message of a Prisoner, though it is not known why Nikola was incarcerated at the time he wrote the inscription.

Sources

  • Church Slavonic text published in ZIJK, I, 1902. Serbian translation published in Djordje Sp, Radojičić's Antologija stare srpske književosti: XI-VIII veka. Belgrade: Nolit, 1960.

References

  1. Matejic, Mateja; Matejić, Mateja; Milivojevic, Dragan D. (March 2, 1978). "An Anthology of Medieval Serbian Literature in English". Slavica Publishers – via Google Books.

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