This paper presents an historical overview of the study of the Byzantine
prayer book—the Euchologion. The modern study of the Euchologion began
with Jacques Goar's (1601–1653) edition Euchologion, sive Rituale Graecorum... in 1647 and continued with Alexei Dmitrievskii's (1856–1929) Opisanie liturgicheskikh rukopisei..., vol. 2: Euchologia, published
in 1901. Since then, various taxonomies of the Euchologion have been
proposed by liturgiologists based on the liturgical environment where
the book was used [Miguel Arranz (1930–2008)], the textual recensions of
its liturgies and prayers [André Jacob (b. 1933)], and the regional
provenance of Euchologion manuscripts [Stefano Parenti (b. 1959)], to
name a few. These taxonomies are presented and analyzed in order to
understand the current state of research, propose classifications of
Euchologia prayers and manuscripts, and indicate questions and
desiderata for further research.
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