The Cyrillic Early Printed Liturgical Tetraevangelion Issued in Vilnius / Vievis in 1644 and Its Source. Research into the Saints and Feasts Present in the Menologia
The Cyrillic Early Printed Liturgical Tetraevangelion Issued in Vilnius / Vievis in 1644 and Its Source. Research into the Saints and Feasts Present in the Menologia

Summary/Abstract: The Cyrillic early printed Tetraevangelion published by the Vilnius Orthodox Brotherhood in 1644 in Vilnius/Vievis is the only liturgical Gospel edition prepared at this Printing House and the fourth issued in Vilnius. A text critical study of several texts, excluding liturgical rubrics, from various sections of this volume has proved that it should be treated as a copy of the first Lviv Gospel edition issued in 1636 by the Dormition Brotherhood Workshop. The Cyrillic early printed liturgical Tetraevangelia were equipped with an appendix, always placed at the end of the volume. It provided information on the feasts and commemorations of saints and various sacred events. This appendix with liturgical rubrics at the Tetraevangelion issued by the Vilnius Orthodox Brotherhood in 1644 has not yet been the subject of textual research. The article focuses on the textual analysis of Menologia present in Cyrillic early printed liturgical Tetraevangelia. Special attention was given to the number of days in the twelve months, the presence or absence of saints and feasts, and verbatim correspondence of commemorations’ names. The results of this reserch proved that Tetraevangelion issued by the Vilnius Orthodox Brotherhood of the Holy Spirit on December 21, 1644, in Vilnius / Vievis reproduces the menologion of the first Lviv Gospel edition, issued at the Lviv Dormition Brotherhood Printing House on October 20, 1636.

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