КРАТКИЕ ЖИТИЯ ЕВАНГЕЛИСТОВ В КИРИЛЛИЧЕСКИХ СТАРОПЕЧАТНЫХ ЕВАНГЕЛИЯХ ТЕТР И ИХ ПРОИСХОЖДЕНИЕ

The aim of the paper is a critical textual analysis of Evangelists’ lives (since the year 1657) in Early Cyrillic Printed Liturgical Tetraevangelions. On the basis of small number of textual variants confirmed in these very short texts, all of the 95 researched Slavonic Tetraevangelions were divided into several groups with accordance to the editorial activity carried out in printing houses in Moscow in the second half of the 17th c. and in Kiev in 1697 and 1746. The authorship of the Evangelists’ short lives ascribed to Sophornios, encompassing not only the Slavonic but also Early Greek Printed Tetraevangelions, has also been discussed in this publication.