To the Question of Classification and Publication of Russian Services of “Jerusalem” Type: Hymnographical Indexes

Abstract

Studying and publication of hymnogpaphical texts raise a lot of problems, especially connected with Slavic services, which were often in constant development and sometimes every copy modifies services, adding new hymns or changing the place of old ones, so we face the problem of how to classify all these copies and how to show a real situation of the service’s development. As a help for hymnographical studies, I propose to create a base, consisting of each hymn with notes related to its text-version in different types of manuscripts and its place in every manuscript. On top of everything an electronic base consisting of different hymns could help a researcher to find a source or a model of Slavic hymns.