Abstract
In this article, a comparison is made between the contents of Codex Suprasliensis and three partly unstudied Russian and Ukrainian manuscripts of the 15th and 16th centuries containing reading menologia for the month of March, as well as the Great Reading Menologia of Makarij. The result is a list of texts, which constitutes the probable, original content of the lost Byzantine pre-metaphrastic prototype of the Slavonic reading menologia for March. The Greek sources are sought for these texts, which are only found in the Russian manuscripts due to lacunas in Codex Suprasliensis, with the result that several pre-metaphrastic March texts earlier presumed lost in the Greek manuscript tradition, or only known in fragments, can be restored with the help of the Slavonic translations. These hagiographic texts are potentially valuable historical and literary sources from late Antiquity and the early Byzantine period, neglected by scholars of various disciplines.
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