Theodore the Studite’s eschatological vision (Hilandar 387) in the ktetor hagiography of the Typikon of the Studenica Monastery (IX H 8 [S 10

Abstract

Around 1207-8 St. Sava wrote the preface to the Typikon of the Studenica Monastery (Studenica Typikon). It comprises the hagiography of the monastery’s founder The Life of St. Simeon (Vita Simeonis), whose closing lessons make up the opening lines of the Typikon. Until now scholars have been unable to trace the origin of these lessons; however, we have found that they were largely replicated from the oration of the Venerable Theodore the Studite (written before 826). The paper offers a comparative analysis of the ending of The Life of St. Simeon (IX H 8 [Š 10]) and Studite’s sentences that were used by St. Sava as his model (Hilandar 387), as well as other copies of this segment in Serbo-Slavonic and Greek manuscripts of the middle Byzantine period.