Enina Apostle

Discovered in a poor condition in 1960 during restoration work in the central Bulgarian village of Enina, the partially preserved parchment manuscript is housed in the SS.

[1] The village lies in south central Bulgaria, north of Kazanlăk, and is administratively part of Stara Zagora Province.

[3] In December 2010, a commemorative plaque dedicated to the Enina Apostle was installed in the courtyard of the Church of Saint Paraskeva in honour of the 50th anniversary of the manuscript′s discovery.

[4] The Enina Apostle is a short Apostolos lectionary, written on parchment in the second half of the 11th century,[5] which makes it the oldest Cyrillic manuscript currently part of a Bulgarian collection.

The Enina Apostle is thought to have originally consisted of circa 215–220 leaves, of which only 39 have been at least partially preserved.

Parchment sheet damaged along the edges with handwritten Cyrillic text, a colourful initial and simple ornamental decoration
F.6r of the Enina Apostle, showing coloured headpiece and decorative initial.