Abstract
The article examines the structure and composition of the daily liturgical cycle of the Russian Church in the eleventh—fourteenth centuries when the worship practice followed the Stoudites Typikon. The study is based on the Book of hours divided between two manuscript liturgical miscellanies now in possession of different archives — the Library of the Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Russian Literature, both in St. Petersburg. The article presents a brief history of the study of Old Russian Books of hours and a detailed description of the composition of the Book of hours under study which contains four services: Matins, Hours, Vespers and Mephimon. This Book of hours is a rare example of a fully preserved complex of services of the daily cycle. It has a number of peculiarities, such as a special set of praises for the Virgin Mary for every day of the week. Its most striking feature is the description of the rite of reading of the Gospel after the Great Doxology during Matins. As a supplement to the study, prayers and troparia now absent from the liturgical practice are published for the first time either according to the manuscript under study with variants from other books of hours, or according to the most useful manuscript
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