Композиция на неделните служби в Солунския октоих
Composition of the Sunday Services in the Salonika Oktoechos

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the Sunday services in the Salonika Oktoechos (=Sal) in comparison with the Slavonic manuscript oktoechoses from the 12th to the 15th с. and also with early editions of the book. The aim is to look for data on the localization and chronology of the manuscript according to the contents and structuring of the hymnographic material. Although the Sunday services in the examined monument show variations in comparison with the other written sources, some tendencies may be outlined and the archaic components be distinguished from the later redactions. In the components of the service, where the Slavonic tradition is unified although different from the oktoechoses produced later and the printed editions (kathismata, hypakoi, kontakia and oikoi), Sal follows it fully. In the parts where the early codices show lack of unification (vespers) of all the examined old oktoechoses Sal stands closest to the printed editions. In the components which vary in the early Slavonic practice and at the same time do not agree with the printed codices, Sal resembles Bitolski, Karansebeshki and Barberinski oktoechos. The contents of the evening section in the oktoechos under review reflects a later redaction of the Studian Typik, influenced by the rules of the Typik of Jerusalem. The closeness of Sal to the oktoechoses defined by the scholars as East Bulgarian (Bitolski, Karansebeshki and partly Zagrebski) indirectly leads to the conclusion that it was created in a literary centre in Eastern Bulgaria, not excluding the probability of the manuscript having emerged in some of the Athonite monasteries. The inferences drawn and the facts presented bear witness to the dating of Sal not later than the end of the 13th с.

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