The place of the Typikon in the codico-liturgical method

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The Typikon, the author argues, is the indispensable hermeneutic key that allows us to conceive and understand the form and function, to enter into the “inner logic” of the Byzantine biblical, hermeneutic, patristic and liturgical manuscripts. In order to do so, the author examines the uses and meanings of the world “Typikon”, briefly presents the history and evolution of the Typikon within the framework of liturgical history, outlines the function and importance of the Typikon in liturgy, and finally places the Typikon within the codico-liturgical methodology.

The world of Byzantine manuscripts is fascinating but also confusing. Although they play an important part in modern studies on the history of Christian liturgy and on the textual history of the Bible, a clear overview of the vast amount of these manuscripts in their many different forms is lacking. A new approach in their cataloguing is called for. The present volume brings together a number of specialists in the field of Byzantine, liturgical and Biblical studies with the aim to develop a new methodology for codicological research of the Byzantine manuscripts, taking seriously the original environment of the integral codices in the monasteries and the churches in which they were manufactured and functioned.

Prof. dr. Klaas Spronk is Head of the Research Department Sources of the Protestant Theological University (PThU), location Amsterdam, and chairman of the CBM Academic Board.

Prof. dr. Gerard Rouwhorst is Professor of Liturgical History at the Tilburg School of Catholic Theology and member of the Department of Biblical Sciences and Church History of that institution. He is member of the CBM Academic Board.

Dr. Stefan Royé is member of the Research Department Sources of the Protestant Theological University (PThU), location Amsterdam, and CBM programme coordinator and secretary of the Academic Board.