school
Preslav Literary School
893–972
attested. Attested by surviving works. Where exactly Cyrillic was created is debated, though Preslav is the usual view.
Under Simeon I, Preslav became the centre of Old Bulgarian literature, where scholars translated Greek theology and history and developed the Cyrillic script. Its works spread to Serbia and Kyivan Rus.
Place: Veliki Preslav · On the map
People
- Tsar Simeon I
- Naum of Preslav
- Constantine of Preslav
- John the Exarch
- Chernorizets Hrabar (On the Letters)
Manuscripts made here
Development of the Cyrillic alphabet
Kept now: -
Simeon's Miscellany, copied in Kyiv as the Izbornik of 1073
Kept now: Moscow, State Historical Museum
John the Exarch's Hexaemeron; Constantine of Preslav's Didactic Gospel
Kept now: later Slavonic manuscripts
Sources
- Preslav Literary School (Wikipedia)
- BulgariaConfessional source
- Veliki Preslav (Wikipedia)