Ioan Bogdan (historian)

Ioan Bogdan carried out fruitful and assiduous research activity, discovering numerous Slavo-Romanian manuscripts: Annals from Putna, Chronicles of Macarie, Eftimie and Azarie, Codices from Tulcea.

His work, focused mainly on the study of the history of the Romanian people and their culture in the Middle Ages, is equally addressed to the historian, philologist and linguist.

It is assumed that the glosses were written by an Orthodox monk or clergyman, in order to facilitate the understanding of the Slavonic text.

They were interesting because a Slavonic manuscript, probably copied in the seventeenth century, found by R. Constantinescu also in Moscow, reproduces them directly.

Ion Gheție and Alexandru Mareș place the "Bogdan glosses" between the writings of ecclesiastical law, namely as original literary texts.