Jerzy Ostapczuk: Послесловия к Евангелиям в кириллических старопечатных восточнославянских Евангелиях-тетр и их отношение к рукописной традиции

 

DOI 10.17846/pdjkss.2026.49-67

 

Dr hab. Jerzy Ostapczuk, prof. ucz., Chrześcijańska Akademia Teologiczna w Warszawie (Warsaw, Poland)

 

Subscriptions to the Gospels in East-Slavonic Early Printed Tetraevangelia and their relation to the manuscript tradition

 

Abstract

This article examines the subscriptions to the Gospels in Cyrillic early printed East Slavonic liturgical Tetraevangelia and their relationship to the manuscript tradition. It demonstrates that the East Slavonic early printed Tetraevangelia form several editorial lines. Attention is paid to changes in the wording of the subscriptions, the degree of their standardisation, and the dependence of later editions on earlier printed models. The study shows that the direct relationship between the printed and manuscript traditions can be observed in the Moscow editions issued before 1651, as well as in the first three Vilnius Tetraevangelia. For this group, a wide range of manuscripts has been identified that may have served as exemplars, protographs, or antigraphs in the preparation of the printed editions. The Lviv tradition is of a different character. The 1636 Lviv Tetraevangelion shows evidence of deliberate editorial intervention: the stichometry was replaced by the number of chapters and liturgical sections, and the formulae of all four subscriptions were standardised. The very limited number of manuscript parallels, all of which postdate the first Lviv Gospel edition, suggests that the Lviv printers did not merely reproduce the manuscript exemplars, but substantially reworked it. Thus, East Slavonic early printed Tetraevangelia emerge not only as witnesses to an inherited manuscript tradition but also as an independent stage in its textual and editorial development.

 

Keywords

Subscriptions to the Gospels; Tetraevangelion; early printed book; manuscript; East Slavonic tradition.

 

How to cite this article

Ostapczuk, Jerzy, (2026). Послесловия к Евангелиям в кириллических старопечатных восточнославянских Евангелиях-тетр и их отношение к рукописной традиции. In: Žeňuchová Šašerina, Svetlana (ed.). Písomné dedičstvo, jazyk a kultúrna pamäť v slovanskom svete. Nitra: Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa, s. 49-67. ISBN 978-80-558-2449-9 (tlač), ISBN 978-80-558-2450-5 (online). DOI 10.17846/pdjkss.2026.49-67

 

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