Codex Dimonie
The Codex Dimonie is a collection of Aromanian-language biblical and religious texts translated from Greek.[1][2] It was discovered by Gustav Weigand, who subsequently published it, in 1889 in the house of the brothers Iancu and Mihail Dimonie in Ohrid (Aromanian: Ohãrda), then in the Ottoman Empire and now in North Macedonia.[1]
The Codex Dimonie has been dated as being from the end of the 18th century[1] or the beginning of the 19th century.[3][4] It is unknown who made the translations.[2] The Codex Dimonie includes the Acts of the Apostles, the Gospel of Mark and the Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom. They are translations taken from Greek-language authors such as Damaskinos Stouditis and Ephrem the Syrian. These translations present several features of the Moscopolean dialect of Aromanian.[1]
The Codex Dimonie is one of the earliest Aromanian-language works along with the also anonymous Aromanian Missal and the publications of Theodore Kavalliotis, Daniel Moscopolites and Constantin Ucuta.[5] The texts that make up the Codex Dimonie are notably heterogeneous, indicating that they may have been written by several different authors.[6] The translators of the texts that wrote the Codex Dimonie were probably from Moscopole, once a prosperous Aromanian city.[2]
References
Citations
- Saramandu & Nevaci 2017, p. 19.
- Brâncuș 1992, p. 39.
- Bardu 2007, p. 100.
- Detrez 2020, p. 9.
- Bardu 2007, p. 94.
- Bardu 2007, p. 101.
Bibliography
- Bardu, Nistor (2007). "Eighteenth century Aromanian writers: the Enlightenment and the awakening of national and Balkan consciousness" (PDF). Philologica Jassyensia. 3 (1): 93–102.
- Brâncuș, Grigore (1992). "Observații asupra structurii vocabularului aromân în Dicționarul lui Daniil Moscopoleanul" (PDF). Studii și cercetări lingvistice (in Romanian). 43 (1): 39–43.
- Detrez, Raymond (2020). "Religion-based cultural communities in the pre-modern Balkans". Slavia Meridionalis. 20: 1–22. doi:10.11649/sm.2144. S2CID 231800361.
- Saramandu, Nicolae; Nevaci, Manuela (2017). "The first Aromanian literature: the teaching writings (Theodor Cavallioti, Daniil Moscopolean, Constantin Ucuta)" (PDF). Studia Albanica. 54 (1): 11–27.
