CYRIL OF TUROV’S HOMILY ON LOW SUNDAY

A text-critical study of the manuscripts of Cyril of Turov’s Homily on Low Sunday brought out two types of the full (main) recension — the Uvarov type and the Tolstoy type, as well as two subtypes of the latter — the Chudov and the Undolsky. Among the manuscripts pertaining to the Uvarov type, a separate group (the Ovchinnikov) was outlined. The 14th-century manuscript Uvarov-589, in spite of its being the earliest representative of the Uvarov type, is not identical to its protograph. The cycle of Cyril of Turov’s homilies contained in this codex can be localized to the area of Rostov-Suzdal dialects (probably in Pereslavl or Suzdal), while the Uvarov type of the text was predominantly current in the North-East. Τwo typologically different abridged recensions of the Homily on Low Sunday can be defined. One of them presents only the last third part of the original composition, essentially narrating the scene with St. Thomas; in the other, conversely, this part has been excluded.