About the book: year / A heart-warming story about the life of Barlaam and Joasaph, brought from the country of inner Ethiopia, called India, to the Holy City (i.e. Jerusalem) John of Damascus - an honest and virtuous husband, a monk of the monastery of St. Savva. Taken from the book: Dictionary of scribes and bookishness of Ancient Rus'. Vol. 2 (second half of the XIV – XVI centuries). Part 2: L–Y / USSR Academy of Sciences. IRLI; Rep. ed. D. S. Likhachev. – L.: Nauka, 1989. – 528 p..