International congress of byzantine studies belgrade, 22 27 august 2016

Sergio Basso
Università degli Studi Roma 3, Rome, Italy; 
[e-mail]
Reading the 
Ms. Urb. Gr. 130
Urb. Gr. 130 collects a completed course for training in rhetorics: John Doxopatres, Aphthonius, 
Hermogenes, Maximus’ Αἱ ἄλυτοι ἀντιθέσεις.
Perria (1977-79) firmly attributed the handwriting to Ephraim; the manuscript dates then to 
the middle of the tenth century. 
Mercati (1935) suggested that the manuscript had belonged to the Italian humanist Palla 
Strozzi (1373-1462), for reasons which I will summarize; Mercati’s hypothesis has had a large 
following since then.
In this contribution I will propose some new remarks on the attribution of the manuscript 
to Strozzi’s library and give notice of a couplet - probably by Theodore Prodromos - reported in a 
marginale in the first folium, perhaps by the hand of Manuel Chrysoloras, Strozzi’s Greek teacher.
This marginale will trigger an analysis of Chrysoloras’s corsiveggiante paratextual handwriting, 
such as in Par. Gr. 1811 and Vat. Gr. 191.
Besides, I will discuss the ruling system of the manuscript (with several divergences from 
Perria 1977-79) and provide transcription of the colophons in a more detailed way than their last 
publication by Stornajolo (1895).
Rev.Vladimir Vukašinović
University of Belgrade, Faculty of Orthodox Theology, Belgrade, Serbia; 
[e-mail]
Manuscript Euchologia in the Hilandar Monastery Library as Sources 
for the Reconstruction of the Evolution of Serbian Liturgical Practice 
in the Period from the 13
th
to the 19
th
Century
MS collection of Hilandar monastery library contains in total 37 MS euchologia, some integral 
and some fragmentary, the oldest dated in the 13
th
and the latest in the 19
th
century. Theological and 
liturgical analysis of their content helped us to recognise the phases and stages in the evolution of 
eucharistic services of the Serbian Orthodox Church as well as to understand historical, cultural and 
theological context at the time of their formation. By comparative analysis with Greek, Bulgarian 
and Russian sources, their mutual influences and stylistic-teleturgical interactions came to light. 
A particular attention is paid to a Serbian Athonite redaction of Patriarch Philoteos Kokkinos’s 
translation of the Diataxis/Διάταξις and its infulence on the rise of hand copying and first printed 
Serbian euchologia in the 16
th
century.

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