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he is also responsible for the first critical edition in the history of romanian
printing, Dialogue against Heresies by Simeon, bishop of thessaloniki.
the volume stands out in elegance, sobriety and an adequate style of the
printed text, with marginal notes every five lines, critical footnotes and
endnotes, as indexes. In order to have a translation instrument, Mitrofan
advised Constantin Brîncoveanu’s chancellor named teodor Corbea to
work on a latin-romanian dictionary, Dictiones latinae cum valachica
interpretatione. It included approximately 34,000 words, teodor Corbea’s
dictionary is the first ample work in lexicography created in the romanian
Countries 28 . Mitrofan was in close relationship with the scholars of his
time: Metropolitan Dosoftei from Moldavia, teodosie and Antim Ivireanul
from Wallachia, Patriarch dositei of jerusalem, Nicolae Milescuă high
official, Şerban cantacuzino, Greceanu brothers and others. due to the
books printed in romanian, Mitrofan had an important contribution to the
introduction of the romanian language to the culture, whereas the books
of religious polemics in Greek supported the orthodox religion, mostly the
South-eastern and the eastern ones.
A famous Moldavian, left on the other side of the world, wrote on
the 27 th of July 1698: “this Introductory Speech by Gyllius was translated
from latin into Greek by me, nicolae high official, in the famous Moscow,
for the pleasure of my dear friend Georgios Kastriotes” 29 . In a short time,
between 1698 September 1st and 1699 August 31 st (7207), hieromonk
Ghienadie buys a Leasfinţă with his own money, not that of the monastery,
because the other monks were unwilling to share the cost 30 . In 1699, month
of January, 19 days, tafan and his wife Varvara and his son toma buy
Tetraevanghel, and they offered it for the forgiveness of their sins and their
parents’ sins to the church, and cursed “whoever should take this book
or sell it away from this holy place, be it a priest or a church singer, or a
simple man” 31 . on the 2 nd of May 1699, Costandin Cantacuzino was great
steward donates Mineele (Buzău, 1698), to the monastery which is called
Bisericani, whose celebration day is the Annunciation 32 .
28 ŞTrEMPEl, Gabriel, The Catalogue, vol. I, p. 303, no. 1357; CoCorA, Gabriel,
Episcopia Buzăului, o vatră de spiritualitate şi gîndire românească ⁄Bishopric of Buzau, a
house of Romanian spirituality and thought, Buzău, Editura Episcopiei, 1986, p. 96; BRV,
I, p. 433.
29 cAProŞu, chiABuru, Notes on manuscripts and old books, p. 330.
30 on Miscelaneu, ms. (1699), f. 7 v. - 13, Ms. rom. nr. 494 from rAl Bucureşti;
(Ibidem).
31 th on Tetraevanghel, ms. (16 century), f. 68-73, Ms. sl. 670, today at rAl
Bucureşti; (ibidem, p. 333).
32 Ibidem.