FROM THE BULGARIAN- SERBIAN LITERARY RELATIONSHIP IN THE XIII CENTURY

The article examines a cycle of prayers kept in the well known miscellanea of Priest Dragol from the third quarter of the 13th century (the manuscript is kept in the Belgrade National Library, signature No. 651), attributed to St. Sysinnios. The fourteen copies, which have been found until now, are systematized according to their textual versions. The main result is that the Miscellanea of Priest Dragol represents a very important moment in the diffusion of such texts because: 1. it attests the existence of earlier copies of Sysinnios' prayers both in the Slavonic and Greek traditions; 2. it offers four different versions of ancient Greek patterns; 3. it should be considered as the basis of development of the apothropeic literature among the Slavs.