Some Aspects of the Slavonic Reception of Isidore of Pelusium: An Isidorian Letter in Constantine of Preslav’s Didactic Gospel /

The article focuses on the Slavonic reception of Isidore of Pelusium, which has been commonly regarded as one of the most neglected aspects of the medieval reception of this patristic author. The starting point of this article is a recent discovery that a passage of the thirty-fifth homily in Constantine of Preslav’s Didactic Gospel corresponds to a letter by Isidore of Pelusium. The present study proves that the corresponding Greek text of this passage belongs to a particular Isidorian letter, which is distributed not only in the Greek catenae manuscripts, used by Constantine of Preslav for the composition of his Didactic Gospel, but also as a separate letter in his epistolary corpus (lib. IV, ep. 123/ ep. 1959). In this way, the article reveals some new aspects of the Slavonic reception of Isidore of Pelusium.