A Fragment National Library of Russia Greek 87: A New Find of the New Tropologion

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The article identifies a hymnographic 8th–9th centuries fragment National Library of Russia Greek 87, brought in 1859 from the Christian Orient by Constantine Tischendorf and sold by him to the Imperial Public Library, as a witness of the new Hierosolymitan tropologion. The folio contains seven hymns for the Cheesefare Week of Great Lent. It is the second as of today, after Sin. Gr. NF MG 56+5, such a collection in Greek, i.e. of Quadragesima, has been identified. The texts are published for the first time with a Russian translation and accompanied by a commentary.

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Alexandra Ju. Nikiforova

A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences; St. Tikhon’s Orthodox University for the Humanities

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Cand. Sci. (Philol.), Senior Researcher; Senior Researcher

Russian Federation, 25a Povarskaya Str., Moscow, 121069; 6/1 Likhov per., Moscow, 127051

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2. Fig. 1. The Lenten collection in the Russian National Library of Greece. 87. ©RNL, St. Petersburg. RNB Greek 87, VIII–IX centuries, p. 1–1 rev. † Τῇ α´ κυριακὴ τῶν ἁγίων νηστείων ἑσπέρας καὶ τη β´ τὸ πρωί. Ἦχ. δ´. αὐθεντικ(ός). † “On the first Sunday of Lent in the evening and on Monday in the morning. Voice 4 is authentic."

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3. Fig. 2. The Lenten collection in MG 56+5. ©St. Catherine’s Monastery. Sinai (Egypt). Sinai Gr. NF MG 56+5, 8th–9th centuries, p. 102–102 rev. † Κυριακὴ α´ τῶν ἁγίων νηστειῶν. Στιχηρὸν τῆς συνάξεως. {[Ἦχ.] πλ. δ´.}† † The First Sunday of Lent in the Evening. Stichera on the Synaxis. {[Voice] 4.}†

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