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850 Maria Parizaanswers received from Eftimie, the Patriarchate of Tarnovo (1375) arethe only ones remaining having as subject dogmatical matters. GrigorieŢamblac (cca. 1367, Tîrnovo – 1419, Kiev), Eftimie’s apprentice, says thathe was a Vlach from somewhere near Adrianople. 8Nicodim introduces the art of copying old texts, after the rules of theHoly Mountain (Mount Athos). He himself did the calligraphy and theminiature of a Four Gospels on parchment, Tetraevangelion in ecclesiasticalSlavic language – the oldest book dated in Wallachia. He also did thecalligraphy for The Slavonic Evangelion in 1403-1404 the oldest bookbounded in gilded silver which is preserved at the “National Musem ofHistory” in Bucharest. 9Another reconstituation which has as argument his place of birth, wasmade about Meletie the Macedoanian, the first monk typographist broughtin Greater Wallachia by Materi Barasarab Voievode to set up a typographyat the Govora Monastery in Vâlcea in the year 1643. He entered ZografuMonastery in the Holy Mountain; he studies at Kiev where he buys hisprinting press 10 . Acording to N.Iorga 11 and Ioan Neniţescu 12 , Moloviţa(Mulovişte) in Macedonia, the birthplace of Meletie, was inhabited only byVlachs at the end of the 16 th century.The Charter of Matei Basarab Voivode from the 6 th of January 1634 isreproduced in the “The old Romanian Bibliography”, given to the GovoraMonastery on occasion of its typography inauguration, charter which tellsus about his appointment as Father Superior of the monastery. In the Psalterof Govora from 1637 by the order of Matei Basarab Voievode it is statedthat “we have printed this book which is called a Psalter together with oneof our youngest monks, Meletie the Macedonian the hegumen of GovoraMonastery…”8The history of Romanian Literature, 1970, Vol. 1, Bucharest: Editura AcademieiRepublicii Socialiste România, 257.9Ibidem; Simonescu, Dan, Buluţă, Gheorghe 1981, Pagini din istoria cărţiiromâneşi, Bucharest: Ion Creangă, 16.10They studied the life and work of printer: Dan Simonescu 1938, in the worksThe literary and cultural life of Campulung Monastery, 1926 and The cultural beginningsof Matei Basarab. In: The Romanian Orhtodox Church, LVI, nr. 11-12, 866-880 andGheorghe Ionescu 1971, Mănăstirea Govora şi ecumenia lui Meletie Macedoneanul,In: Buletinul. Monumentelor. Istorice, XL, nr. 2, 20-32. See also Dicţionarul teologilorromâni, 1996, Bucureşti, 257.11Iorga, Nicolae 1919, The history of Romanians from the Balkan Peninsula:(Albania, Macedonia, Epir, Tesalia etc.), Bucharest: Cultura Neamului Românesc.12Neniţescu, Ioan 1895, De la Românii din Turcia europeană: studiu etnic şi statisticasupra aromânilor, Bucharest: Institutul de Arte grafice Carol Gobl, 32.