The structure of Byzantine liturgical manuscript D 227 IOM RAS
The article describes the structure of the Byzantine lectionary D 277 (12 c.) from the collection of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences. This kind of New Testament manuscript was common in the liturgical practice of the Orthodox Church in the 8th-14th centuries. These manuscripts usually comprise a collection of gospel or apostolic passages (pericopes). The pericopes accord with the order of the church calendar (moving cycle), beginning with Easter and ending with the Great Sabbath. Also lectionaries often contain readings for major church holidays of the immobile annual cycle beginning in September and ending in August. The purpose of this article is to describe briefly the structure and content of the manuscript D 227, and also to identify its type according to the classification of the editions of the Greek New Testament (NestléAland) and the classification of the full Byzantine lectionaries of W. C. Braithwaite. In the first part of the paper, the author gives some brief information about the manuscript from the scientific literature. In the second part, the author describes the structure of the lectionary D 227 and provides arguments for attributing the manuscript under review to k-type according to the classification of W. C. Braithwaite.