Creation period          

    The first half or middle of the XI century.

    Various opinions were advanced about the time period of creation of the document. A.Kh. Vostokov, A. A. Shakhmatov, N. N. Durnovo and others state that Putyatina Mineia (PM) dates from the XI century. [Vostokov 1865, 204; Sergy, 211; Shakhmatov, 247; Durnovo, 56; Papadopulo, 144; Momina, 218; JC, 63; Stolyarova 2000, 66]; I.K. Kupryanov believes that PM was written not later than in the XI century or, more exactly, even in the end of the X or beginning of the XI centuries. [Kupryanov, 40, 42]; Metropolitan Makary supposes that PM was rewritten in the XI century and "perhaps even in its first half" [Makary, 57]; I. Ogienko thinks that this manuscript was written at the same time together with the Menaions of 1095-1097. [Ogienko, 197]; L.V. Stolyarova relates the final entry done by the scribe that is contemporary of the manuscript to the second half of the XI century. [Stolyarova 1997, 30]; A.I. Sobolevsky to the end of the XI or beginning of the XII centuries [Sobolevsky, 12]; E.E. Golubinsky and N.N. Rozov consider the Menaion as a manuscript of the XI-XII centuries [Golubinsky, 449; Rozov, 154]; I.I. Sreznevsky believes that the manuscript was written before 1100 [Sreznevsky, 21, 149] and E.F. Karsky, K.M. Kuyev, E.E. Granstrem and N.A. Nechunayeva think that about 1100. [Karsky, 303; Kuyev, 21; Granstrem, 18; PL, 188; Nechunayeva 1982, 6, 9].

    V.M. Markov finds that PM is the oldest parchment manuscript rewritten in Russia [Markov 1968, 550-551]. Based on the analysis of characters and orthographic and phonetic peculiarities he concluded that the text was written not later than in the middle of the XI century [Markov 1964, 15] or even earlier [Markov 1964, 7-8]. V.V. Kolesov relates the manuscript to the first half of the XI century [Kolesov, 85]. The paleographical analysis of the handwritings also witnesses that PM is an early manuscript of the XI century. The peculiarities of some characters of the second handwriting bring it close to the old South-Slavonic manuscripts of the Cyrillic script [Baranov 1996].