Publications

Jerzy Ostapczuk

Typological Classification of the Cyrillic

Manuscripts and Early Printed Books

with the Gospel Texts

The paper presents the rules for typological classification of Slavonic manuscripts and early printed books with the Gospel text. It enumerates different types of the books with the Gospel and sometimes also with other parts of the Holy Scripture. Information about the Greek tradition of the Gospel is also included in the article and serves as the basis of comparison.

E.F. Dovgan

The Veneration of Holy Great Martyr John the New of Suceava as the Patron of the Moldavian Land

The article focuses on critical historiography and hagiography of the veneration of Holy Great Martyr John the New of Suceava as the patron saint of the area for the population with hagiographic coordinates – the cities of Akkerman (BilhorodDnistrovskyi, Ukraine) and Suceava (Romania). The church veneration of the Saint John the New of Suceava helps to overcome prejudices and other negative ethnic phenomena and contributes to the economic development of a multinational society. A similar study of the veneration (in the ethnology of the cult) of the Saint John The New of Suceava in both hagiology and history of the Church, studies of medieval Slavic writing of Moldavian origin in connection with the world processes of social optimization would help pastors as well as all Orthodox people in everyday church-practical activities.

Zhanna Levshina

EXTRACT OF THE GOSPEL OF ANDREYCHINA FROM THE COLLECTION OF P. I. SEVASTYANOV AND THE HISTORY OF THE CODE

This article is an attempt to identify a fragment of the Gospel from the P. I. Sevastianov Collection (Russian State Library, col. 270.II, No 16/3) in its connection with other parts of the same codex, which are in the Ivanovo State D. G. Burylin Museum of Local History (No 239) and in the Cabinet of Rare Books of the Research Library of the State Hermitage (BKR-1). The Gospel was written by famous scribe Andreichina from the Galicia-Volhynian Rus' in the midsixteenth century. The attribution of one of the fragments from the P. I. Sevastianov Collection allows to specify data on the history of the manuscript codex in the later time.

The Eulogy of John the New was composed by Theodosius, Abbot of theMoldovan Neamţ monastery, in 1534. Its only copy dates back to 1574 and comesfrom the Moldovan monastery of Putna. Based on the results of the codicological,paleographic and textual analysis of the Slavic manuscripts of Moldovan origincontaining texts about the Life of John the New, it is suggested in the paper thatthere is a previously unknown abridged version of the Life of John the New, the text of which is partially reconstructed in the article. It is concluded that the main source used by Theodosius was not the Life of John the New written byGregory Tsamblak, as is accepted in modern historiography, but instead thisabridged version. It was also found that Theodosius borrowed the material forthe conclusion of his Eulogy from the Eulogy to the Great Martyr Nedelya(Kiriakia) by Euthymius Turnovsky.