ORDER OF CHURCH SERVICES IN THE LITURGICAL PRACTICE OF THE PALAEOLOGUS PERIOD

Abstract

The article analyzes the state of modern research of manuscript collections of liturgical songs of acolytes in the liturgical tradition of the Byzantine Church of the 13th–15th centuries. As there is a lack of thorough research of books of this type, the significance of such research for the history of worship, hymnography, literature and culture is highlighted. The issue of correct understanding of Byzantine liturgical books, in particular the Triodion, with regard to their content and historical development, is singled out. A special task is to consider musical manuscripts through the prism of liturgical content. At the beginning of the creation and translation of the Triodion, namely hymns in the time of Clement of Ohrid, the texts of the hymns of Lent and Easter were combined in this book. These texts were later supplemented by a larger number, namely from Easter to Pentecost, which falls at the end. 12th-beg. 13th century. The author of the article from this position considers Greek sources, raises the issue of preserving the names of hymnographers, compilers of manuscripts: Clement of Ohrid, John Kukuzel and others. He also mentions the significance of the book Taxys －Τάξις τῶν ἀκολουθιῶν – for the study of Byzantine chants. During the development of the kalophonic style, some of the texts of the Easter season were kept in such collections of musical type as acoluitik. Thanks to the published sources in the series "Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae", namely such books as Stycherarium, Irmologion, Kondakar, as well as a number of other manuscripts and especially Byzantine-Slavic manuscript catalogs, the thinks covered in the article can be continued for study as liturgists, theologians , and philologists and musicologists-medievalists.