The Commandment of John Chrysostomon Church Law in East Slavic Tradition (on the issue of new texts in the monastic libraries)
The article continues the study of the pseudepigraphic Commandment of John Chrysostom on Church Law, known in Serbian Trebniks of the 14th-15th centuries,as well as in Bulgarian and Moldavian manuscripts of the 15th-16th centuries. Forthe first time, the characteristics of four East Slavic editions of the Commandmentare given. Three of them date from the beginning of the 15th century. and are part ofstable collections: collections of the “Arkhangelsk” type, the Myasnikov edition of theKormchaja, the Kiril-Belozerosky edition of the Nomocanon of John the Faster and reflect the process of creating new types of canonical collections. Only in the collectionsof the “Arkhangelsk” type is the Commandment in its entirety, including the chapter onthe Bogomils. The text of the Commandment was subjected to the greatest revision in the“Barsov” edition, which is found in the composition of the “nomocanons” addressed topriests. These collections do not have a stable composition, although they contain manymatching blocks. A study of the “Barsov” edition shows that the text is found not only inthe tradition of monasteries, but also among collections addressed to priests.