Un text slavon cu caracter vizionar din Moldova secolului al XV-lea și implicațiile sale iconografice
A Visionary Slavic Text from 15th-Century Moldavia and Its Iconographic Implications

Summary/Abstract: Manuscript no. 50 (46) from the Library of Putna Monastery contains the “Discourse on the appropriate manner of attending the church”. This opuscule consists of two sections. The first part explains the Divine Liturgy, starting with the vesting of the priest and the office of the Proskomede, up to the moment that precedes the Epiclesis. The divine office is dramatized as an interaction between the priest and an angel of God, who then engages in a fight against a demon who distracts the congregation. Those who properly attend the office are protected by the angel. The second part consist in the famous vision of the monk who had lost his faith in the Eucharist. Through the prayers of his brethren, he is granted a vision of the reality of the liturgical mystery, in which he sees a Child slaughtered on the altar table, His blood being collected in the chalice and His flesh placed on top of the offering of bread. The visionary text from the first part belongs to a tradition attested in the Slavic milieu in the Balkans, gaining currency at a later stage within the Rus’ lands. These Slavic versions could rely upon a similarly visionary text attested in Greek manuscripts, but the similarities are limited. This article places the text from the manuscript preserved at Putna in relation with the iconography of the liturgical space and stresses the relevance of this type of literature for the understanding of the local monastic culture.

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