Abstract
The kata stichon hymns are a peculiar genre of hymnography occurring as part of nocturnal prayer in early sources for the Byzantine Liturgy of the Hours. The use of these hymns in traditions on the Byzantine periphery remains in need of study. In this paper, the authors identify kata stichon hymns translated into Church Slavonic found in early East Slavic Horologia as well as in later Slavonic collections of private prayer used in Russia up to the 17th century. The authors also identify hymns with no known Greek analogs, as well as hymns reflecting the kata stichon genre composed in Church Slavonic. The liturgical function of these hymns is studied and hypotheses are proposed for their origin and continued popularity in Russian nocturnal worship and private cell prayer.
Highlights
The work of Santos Marinas (2022), which is forthcoming, will provide a study and edition of the kata stichon hymns in the early (13th–15th century) East Slavic Horologia, as we show in this paper, the number of such early sources is larger than previously thought
We demonstrate that kata stichon hymns are found in later (15th–17th century) East Slavic sources, including in the early printed liturgical books
Our goal is to describe all of the known Slavic liturgical sources of kata stichon hymns and to identify all such hymns in them, including those that currently have no known Byzantine analogs
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