The coenobitic Τυπικόν and principles of liturgical codex composition. The liturgical context of the collection of Byzantine manuscripts of Mone Karakallou

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This article discusses the collection of Byzantine manuscripts of one present-day Greek orthodox monastery, Hiera Mone Karakallou on Mount Athos. Research of one particular coenobitic monastic collection of Byzantine manuscripts turns our attention to some vital codico-liturgical principles. The manner in which different liturgical books are connected in liturgical practice is demonstrated, giving insight into their “inter-functionality”. The author also looks at the general organisational factor behind the liturgical programme of the monastery, namely the Typikon and how the Typikon functions today.

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.