За антиграфа на Песнивеца на цар Иван Александър (БАН, София 2; ГИМ, Щукин 3)

The article explores the so-called Pesnivec, which contains Psalms with commentaries by Pseudo-Athanasius of Alexandria (in fact, its autor is Hesychios of Jerusalem). Тhe manuscript, also known as the Sofia Psalter, is kept currently in the Archive of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (cod. BAN 2; GIM, Ščukin 3). The Codex was written in 1337 for king John Alexander (1331–1371) according to the colophon on f. 311r, which is part of the Eulogy to King John Alexander. The Psalter consists of 317 parchment folios, 312 of which were written by two main copyists. The author of the article aims to identify at the orthographic level which features are intrinsic to the copyists and which to the manuscript from which they have been copied, in order to establish the hypothetical antigraph of the codex. On the basis of the analysis the conclusion is reached that the Pesnivec was copied from a Middle Bulgarian manuscript of the 13th century of East Bulgarian origin with preserved traces of an older Cyrillic tradition.