К ИСТОРИИ РАСПРОСТРАНЕНИЯ ПОУЧЕНИЯ НОВОПОСТАВЛЕННОМУ СВЯЩЕННИКУ

The article traces the history of the “Instructions to the newly appointed priest” from the 13th to the 20th century. This text was created in Rus’ and has a compilation character. It exists in two editions – the Full one (from the 13th century) and the Short one, which is known from the manuscript copies from the beginning of the 15th century and possibly associated with Metropolitan Cyprian. The “Instruction” was given to the priest during the liturgy; and this has determined the distribution of the text. The language of the “Instruction” was regularly updated; in the Kyiv Metropolis, it included the vocabulary of “prosta mova”. The “Instruction” was repeatedly published in print both in the Moscow Patriarchate and in the Kyiv Metropolis, supplied with comments on incomprehensible words. The last analysed edition originated in 1930 in Warsaw. The history of the “Instruction” testifies to the remarkable stability of the text, despite its archaic nature.