The cohesion between the Ammonian-Eusebian apparatus and the Byzantine liturgical pericope system in Tetraevangelion codices: Stages in the creation, establishment and evolution of Byzantine codex forms

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In this article Royé discusses the topic of the study of apparatuses in Tetraevangelion and Evangelion manuscripts, concentrating on the early Byzantine Ammonian-Eusebian apparatus and the later middle Byzantine liturgical pericope system. Evidence is provided in the form of concordant tables that the Ammonian-Eusebian numbers are used in the codices Cyprus and Campianus (IX century) to indicate the liturgical pericopes. The central question raised is: is there, beside a numerical connection, also a conceptual relationship between the two systems? Did the Ammonian-Eusebian apparatus contribute to the development of the liturgical reading system(s)?

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.