ON THE QUESTION OF PALAEA INTERPRETATA’S REDACTIONS
For the first time in modern Old Russian studies, the article presents a classification of manuscripts of one of Palaea Interpretata's types, which we will hereafter call Interpretata proper. First, we divide all the Palaea manuscripts into three redactions: Interpretata, Intermediate, and Alexander Nevsky, according to whether the Revelation of Abraham story is present in its shorter or longer form, or absent altogether. In its turn, Interpretata type contains two subtypes: Interpretata proper and Southern Russian. The classification of the Interpretata proper manuscripts is a starting point in Palaea's textological description, as it will help to find out structural features peculiar to each of the subtypes and variant readings, which will shed light on the inter-relatedness of the manuscripts and the history of the text in Old Russian culture. It turned out that the Interpretata proper manuscripts can be divided into three groups, leaving out Undolsky No. 718 manuscript, which is arguably the closest to the protograph of the whole Interpretata redaction.