Syro-Melkite Manuscript of the 15th Century (Vat. sir. 351): An Unfinished Project of the Monthly Menaion for the Whole Year in One VolumeВестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета. Серия III: ФилологияSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/DR5DJYLX/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.AleksandrLukashevichSyro-Melkite Manuscript of the 15th Century (Vat. sir. 351): An Unfinished Project of the Monthly Menaion for the Whole Year in One Volumehttp://syriaca.org/cbss/DR5DJYLXhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/DR5DJYLXhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/DR5DJYLXВестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета. Серия III: Филология77202353-68This article describes content, palaeographic, linguistic, and liturgical features of one of the Syriac manuscripts of the Vatican Library, Vat. sir. 351, dating back to the 15th century. A large part of the MS is written by one scribe with very fine and professional handwriting, but there are also insertions of other scribes. Two of them are known by their names which are indicated in the margins (Yusuf, Salam). The MS is written mostly in Classical Syriac, but some rubrics and texts are in Arabic. The Menaion contains texts of the Holy Scripture, i.e., readings from the Apostle and the Gospel in the beginning of the MS; the Menaion part contains prokimena, alleluiaria, communion hymns, New Testament readings for matins and liturgy, psalms of the great hours and selected psalms (<i>eklogai</i>) for singing after the polyeleos on great feasts. One may assume that the scribe planned to include the entire Menaion for the whole year, from September to August, in one volume. However, this experiment remained incomplete: services for every day can be found only at the beginning and at the end of the MS (September, October, part of November, August), while other months contain a selection of the most festive days. Thus, the MS cannot be fully characterised by such terms as a “Monthly Menaion” or a “Festal Menaion”. Days without services contain only indications of the date, names of the saints, often with addition of stichera, troparion and kontakion, always with indications of readings for the liturgy; the scribe usually left an empty space after the date, due to lack of time or inability to find the necessary texts. The changes from daily services to festive selection and vice versa are situated not far from large fragments written by other scribes.
Lukashevich, Aleksandr. “Syro-Melkite Manuscript of the 15th Century (Vat. sir. 351): An Unfinished Project of the Monthly Menaion for the Whole Year in One Volume.” Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета. Серия III: Филология 77 (2023): 53–68. https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.15382/sturIII202377.53-68.
Aleksandr Lukashevich, Syro-Melkite Manuscript of the 15th Century (Vat. sir. 351): An Unfinished Project of the Monthly Menaion for the Whole Year in One Volume,Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета. Серия III: Филология 77 (2023): 53–68, https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.15382/sturIII202377.53-68.