Żywot świętych Zozymy i Sabacjusza według rękopisu Biblioteki Monasteru Sołowieckiego z 1623 roku

Abstract

In this paper is presented unknown text of the lives of local Russian Orthodox Church Holy Monks Sabathios and Zosimos, which was written in the Solovki monastery and now is protected in the Russian National Library in Sankt Petersburg. The text was written by Gavrila Basov in 1623. It is a voluminous codex in Church Slavonic, but there are many regional and colloquial words in this text. This manuscript is interested due the vocabulary and its content. The earliest text of the Lives of Holy Sabathios and Zosimos was born in few days of the death of Zosimos in the monastery of Solovki. It was written by the monk Dositheos, who was lived in the monastery with Holy Zozimos. It was a so called “starting text” of the Lives of the Holy monks. Nowadays, we know 11 redactions of text of the Lives. The Solovki manuscript continues a text of so called second extended redaction of the monument. It was written by a simply language, approaching to colloquial, but in the mainstream of Church Slavonic tradition.