THE GREEK TRIODION OF METROPOLITAN PHOTIUS (1408) - CHURCH SLAVONIC LENTEN TRIODION (1525): LINGUOTEXTOLOGY OF MAXIMUS THE GREEK’S REVISION
The article examines textual and language corrections made by Maximus the Greek in the Lenten Triodion according to the Metropolitan Fotius’s Greek Triodion of 1408. A textological analysis shows that the Triodion of 1408 was the only source of numerous text changes made in the Slavic Triodion. An analysis of the marginal glosses in the text shows that Slavic lists of the Triodion were involved on a much smaller scale compared with the textual work accompanying the revision of the Psalter of 1552. Maximus’s various and voluminous linguistic corrections of the Triodion correlate with the later revision in the Psalter of 1552. The language corrections common to both texts typologically correspond to «loci communes» which Italian humanists paid attention to while translating from Greek to Latin and which were extensively commented by Erasmus of Rotterdam in his Annotations to the New Testament (Novum Instrumentum omne, 1516). In the early Moscow period, the translator had already had a linguistic program of Slavic biblical books revision according to the Greek text, which points to its formation during Michael Trivolis’s Italian philological studies and conﬁ rms the groundlessness of the translator’s accusation of poor knowledge of the Church Slavonic language at the Church Council in 1525.