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Item description: "KORMCHAIA or NOMOKANON - orhodox church low" - church old slavonic book, modern reprint of edition of 1653. Pages 1480 with decorative viniettes .
Originated: from tradition of Russian Christian Orthodox Fundamentalists Old Believers (concervative group of Russian religious dissentents - Old Believers became separated after 1666-1667 from the goverment official Russian Orthodox Church as a protest against church reforms introduced by Patriarch Nikon at 1666. Old Believers continue liturgical practices which the Russian Orthodox Church maintained before the implementation of these reforms. Additionally, Old Ritualists have preserved ancient customs, traditional way of life, ancient clothes of Old Russia, natural rural economy, ancient form of church prayer singing, that continues to draw the attention of other Orthodox Christians, as well as scholars and historians.).
All Old Believers books never have any mark of factory or print house, a stroke of codes, dates of the edition or producing and other numbers. Such marks, numbers or digits are considered by Old Believers belonging to the world of the AntiChrist. All items made by Old Believers, are rare and unique and it is never sold in shops and distributed only inside community due to strong religious restrictions.
Item story: I have received this book at fair in Yaroslavl-town where christians belonged to Old Believers communities from distant villages of Russia sell they products and artifacts.
Measurements:
210 x 150 x 65 mmWeigth: 2,5 kg
Condition:
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Item description in Russian: "НОМОКАНОН или КОРМЧАЯ КНИГА" - краткое изложение свода християнских правил и законов, составленных из решений вселенских и поместных православных соборов. Книга содержит в себе подробное описание наиболее распостраненных грехов и полагающихся за них церковных наказаний и епитимий.
Ко́рмчие книги (от ц.-сл. кормчий, старослав. кръмьчии — рулевой, греч. Номоканон) — сборники церковных и светских законов, являвшихся руководством при управлении церковью и в церковном суде некоторых славянских стран. Восходят к византийскому Номоканону, составленному в VI веке константинопольским патриархом Иоанном Схоластиком. Во 2-й половине XI века Номоканон был переведён для болгарской церкви и затем распространён на Руси. С конца XIII века Номоканоны в русской переработке получили название «Кормчие книги», они дополнялись на Руси нормами светского права. В 1274 году на церковном соборе во Владимире[1] митрополит Кирилл предложил в качестве руководства для управления церковью Кормчую книгу, переведённую около 1225 года в Сербии с греческого языка на церковнославянский. В XIII веке появилась ещё одна разновидность Кормчей, где некоторые элементы болгарских и сербских Кормчих книг были сведены воедино. Эта т. н. софийская, или синодальная, редакция (получившая название по месту обнаружения в Софийском соборе Новгорода и хранившаяся затем в Синодальной библиотеке в Москве) дополнена была и русскими статьями: Русской правды, уставами князей Владимира и Ярослава, правилами Собора 1274 года и др. Синодальная Кормчая книга получила широкое распространение и дошла до нас в большом количестве списков. В конце XV — начале XVI вв. Кормчие книги из-за значительного числа разночтений подверглись пересмотру. В 1650 году была издана в типографии т. н. Иосифовская Кормчая книга
Церковнославянский язык. Редкое староверческое издание. Репринт староверческой книги 1913 года, которая в свою очередь перепечатана слово в слово, буква в букву с дораскольного издания напечатанного при православном патриархе Иосифе в 1650 году. Не содержит исправлений, внесенных в богослужебные книги патриархом Никоном и его последователями. Прекрасный подарок всем, кого интересует древнее православие. Может быть использована для изучения церковно-славянского языка, богослужебного устава и церковного законодательства.
An Explanation of the
KORMCHAIA - NOMOKANON Book:
(Greek: Νομοκανών, Nomokanōn;
from the Greek nomos, law, and kanon, a rule) is a collection of ecclesiastical
law, the elements of which are borrowed from secular and canon law.
Collections of this kind are found only in Eastern law. The
Greek Church has two principal collections.
The first, dating from the end of the sixth century, is ascribed, though without
certainty, to John Scholasticus, whose canons it utilizes and completes. He had
drawn up (about 550) a purely canonical compilation in fifty titles, and later
composed an extract from the "Novellæ" in eighty-seven chapters[1] To each of
the fifty titles were added the texts of the imperial laws on the same subject,
with twenty-one additional chapters nearly all borrowed from John's
eighty-seven[2].
In its earliest form this collection dates from the reign of the Byzantine
Emperor Heraclius (610-40), at which time Latin was replaced by Greek as the
official language of the imperial laws. Its two sections include the
ecclesiastical canons and the imperial laws, the latter in fourteen titles.
This collection was long held in esteem and passed into the Russian Church, but
was by degrees supplanted by that of Photios. The first part of Photios's
collection contains the conciliar canons and the decisions of the Fathers. It is
in substance the Greek collection of 692, as it is described by canon ii of the
Trullan Council (see Canon law), with the addition of 102 canons of that
council, 17 canons of the Council of Constantinople of 861 (against Ignatius),
and of 3 canons substituted by Photios for those of the œcumenical council of
869. The nomocanon in fourteen titles was completed by additions from the more
recent imperial laws.
This whole collection was commentated about 1170 by Theodore Balsamon, Greek
Patriarch of Antioch residing at Constantinople[3]. Supplemented by this
commentary the collection of Photios has become a part of the "Pedalion" (Greek:
Πηδάλιον, rudder), a sort of Corpus Juris of the Orthodox Church, printed in
1800 by Patriarch Neophytos VIII.
In the eleventh century it had been also translated into Slavonic for the
Russian Church; it is retained in the law of the Orthodox Church of Greece, and
included in the "Syntagma" published by Rallis and Potlis (Athens, 1852-9).
Though called the "Syntagma", the collection of ecclesiastical law of Matthew
Blastares (c. 1339) is a real nomocanon, in which the texts of the canons and of
the laws are arranged in alphabetical order[4].
A remarkable nomocanon was composed by Catholicos Bar-Hebraeus (1226-86) for the
Syrian Church of Antioch.
Several Russian manuals published at Kiev and Moscow in the seventeenth century
were also nomocanons.
About Old Believers: Russian Christian Orthodox Fundamentalists or Old Believers, or more correctly, Old Ritualists are Orthodox Christians who adhere to the service books and ritual of the Russian Orthodox Church prior to the reforms made to those books and services by the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Nikon beginning in the year 1653. Opponents of the ecclesiastical reforms of Nikon emerged among all strata of the people and in relatively large numbers. The Old Believers fiercely rejected all innovations, and the most radical amongst them maintained that the official Russian Church had fallen into the hands of the Antichrist. The State church anathematized both the old rites and books and those who wished to stay loyal to them. From that moment, the Old Believers officially lacked all civil rights. The State church had the most active Old Believers arrested, and executed many of them some years later in 1682. After 1685 a period of persecutions began, including both torture and executions. Many Old Believers fled Russia altogether. However, Old Believers became the dominant denomination in many Russian regions, including North and Siberia. Before the Russian Revolution in 1917 there were probably more than 20 million Old Believers located throughout the Russian Empire and in Diaspora, but now after nearly a century of Communist persecution and simple secularization of Russian people, that number probably does not exceed 2 million. Old Ritualists are known for their strict adherence to the practices of the Russian Orthodox Church as it existed prior to Patriarch Nikon. Additionally, Old Ritualists have preserved ancient customs, traditional way of life, ancient clothes of Old Russia, natural rural economy, ancient form of church prayer singing, known as Znamenny Chant, that continues to draw the attention of other Orthodox Christians, as well as scholars and historians.
Group of Russian Christian Orthodox Fundamentalists Old Believers. Village near Volga river. Circa 1916
Russian Christian Orthodox Old Believers confidently speak about themselves: "Orthodoxy means right teaching, correct doctrine. Orthodox Christianity is the true doctrine of Christ. When Orthodoxy came to the Slavic lands, the term was rendered as pravoslavie – right glorification, which fits the importance attached to worshipping God in beauty as well as in truth. Christianity is concerned with man's salvation from evil. The belief of the mind and the praise of the lips would be hollow if not joined to virtue. And so, true belief and true worship must bear fruit in right conduct, good morals and righteous actions. In Orthodox Christianity, man's mind, soul and body are elevated and ennobled to rise above the merely mundane and to lead what one writer has given as the very definition of Orthodoxy: new life in the Holy Spirit." Now it is still possible to meet this people in remote parts of Russia, mostly in Siberia.
Russian Christian Orthodox Fundamentalists Old Believers with huge prayer book.
Village at Altay mountains, Syberia. Nova days, 2007
Moral and ethical sense of your purchase in our eBay auction: In the name preservation of a russian cultural heritage from commercial robbery and full disappearance we do not sell antiques older than XIX century. All religious items in our auction are hand-made by Old Believers. Buying the things made by Old Believers, you give material and moral support to their independent community and to ancient religious culture of Old Holy Russia, which has strongly suffered from persecutions in ancient times from Patriarch Nikon reform at 1666-1917, from communistic terror at 1917-1987 and from general secularization of modern society. Thank you for support of unique traditional culture and religion of our people.
About me: as the representative of this Russian Christian Orthodox Fundamentalists Old Believers community I have an extensive knowledge in religious subjects of ancient Russia. I know well an ancient church art. I have the big collection of religious items and icons. I get subjects for my collection in auctions, antiques shops, church shops, flea markets, at private persons by purchase and by exchange on mutually interesting subjects. Also I visit the remote and wild parts of my huge native land where rare subjects were still kept on the present. Frequently these rare things are in oblivion and still wait for the person, who can understand their beauty and meaning.
Charity: 10% of my eBay income goes for support of small Old Believers community located in North Russia.
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