Name of a liturgical book?

[Slavomír Čéplö]

Dear friends,

I came across the following reference in a manuscript fihrist that I
can't seem to decipher:

استي خوريتيكون

The second word is an obvious Greek borrowing and the text is a
liturgical one and refers to confession and absolution.

Thank you for any help you can provide!

Best wishes,

Slavomír

[Manolis Ulbricht]

Dear Slavomir,

Thank you very much for your message. I deciffer the transcription as στιχουριτικόν, which I would not know what this could be. With some emendations/missspellings—might it be instead στιχηραρικόν? Could you send a picture of the ms. page?

Best wishes,
Manolis

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[Slavomír Čéplö]

Dear Manolis,

many thanks for your suggestion, it does make more sense than anything I could come up with!

Here is one of the pages in question.

Best wishes,

Slavomír

 

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[Father Arsenius Mikhail]

Could it be a corruption of συγχωρητικόν i.e. having to do with συγχώρησις (forgiveness, absolution)?

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[Yulia Petrova]

Dear Slavomir,

it is συγχωρητικόν, letter of absolution. Information on this kind of documents issued by the Orthodox Patriarchs is in the book by Mihai Țipău, p. 233:

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110988420/html?srsltid=AfmBOooqVvvj5Vy8MRCaAyMC_OSqkDWnIJlRElp0SK-w25LDSBDaw3j1

ср, 19 февр. 2025 г. в 22:16, Slavomír Čéplö <bulbult...@gmail.com>:

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Yours sincerely,
Yulia P.

[Slavomír Čéplö]

Dear Yulia,

many thanks for the tip! The manuscript does not quite line up with that particular genre as described by Mihai, but it is the closest thing…

Best wishes, 

Slavomír

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[Habib Ibrahim]

Although the copyist gives the impression that he reads ستي. In this case he changed it to استي, because the Arabic linguist does not like the double consonant at the beginning of a transliterated word, so Gregorius is written اغريغوريوس. I believe the correct reading is سينخوريتيكون. This is not the only mistake made by the copyist. The Arabic is unintelligible; it begins with the vocative "O our Lord... deliver us from..." and ends with the 3rd person "by his salvific, life-giving passion".

Habib

[Charbel Nassif]

Dear friends,

Here are some article dealing with the  συγχωρητικόν

Sophia Senyk, « Rites and Charters of Remission Evidence of a Seventeenth Century Source », OCP, 47 (1981), p. 426-440 

Miguel Arranz, « Les prières pénitentielles de la tradition byzantine les sacrements de la restauration de l’ancien euchologe constantinopolitain II-2 (3^e partie) », OCP, 58 (1992), p. 23-82, ici p. 72-78 

 Dory Papastratos, Paper Icons Greek Orthodox Religious Engravings 2. 1665-1899, Athènes : A. Bongers, 1990, p. 560-561.

Best regards,

Charbel Nassif 

[Slavomír Čéplö]

Dear Charbel,

many thanks for your comments and the references!

Best wishes,

Slavomír

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[Pahlitzsch, Prof. Dr. Johannes]

Dear all,

 

maybe this call for papers is of interest for you.

 

Best

Johannes

 

When God created the heavens and the earth: Nature in hexaemeral literature beyond Basil and Ambrose

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