The Rule of the Singing of the Psalter and Its Influence on the Slavic Tradition of This Liturgical Book of the 13th–14th Centuries

Abstract

The article provides a textual analysis of the Rule of the Singing of the Psalter according to all its parchment copies and traces its connection with the Slavic Psalter. As a result of the study, two redactions were identified and the second redaction was found to be derived from the first. Both redactions are associated with the spread of additional private services, which were actively introduced into Slavic worship on Mount Athos in the 13th century, as a result of which troparia and prayers after each cathisma appear in the Psalter. The first edition is possibly associated with the circle of St. Sava of Serbia: the translation exhibits Russian features and, most likely, comes from the Panteleimon Monastery, where the saint was tonsured. Among the Southern Slavs, only the second redaction is known, and it is found in a much greater number of manuscript copies. Both redactions became known in Rus' in the 13th century, which indicates the intensity of ties with Athos. The appendix to the article contains an index of all known prayers after cathismata in the 13th–14th-centuries Slavic sources.

DOI: 10.31168/2305-6754.2023.1.01