Musicology Annotation << Back To the Question of Protograph of Putevoj Three-line Irmologion NRL.OLDP.Q.4 Alexandr A. Lukashevich The article describes the manuscript of the last quarter of the 17th century, kept in the collection of Society of Lovers of Ancient Literature in the National Library of Russia. It is the only known manuscript which contains almost complete set of three-line irmoses, with their melody based on putevoj chant. The оrder of irmoses in the codex, the peculiarities of their text and melody can be associated with the pre-nikonian chant tradition. The order of the irmoses is the same as in pre-nikonian Irmologions. Though the text in the manuscript is new (nikonian), there are mistakes, which point out that the text is based on pre-nikonian one. The analysis of the melody shows that the melody of pre-nikonian irmoses (with old text and khomonia) was adopted to the new text, with the elements of melody split into two or more parts or combined, often in a clumsy way. The described features point out that the codex had a pre-nikonian protograph. The article also addresses the question of relationship between this codex and other manuscripts containing irmoses of putevoj chant. Keywords: putevoj chant, popevka, melodic formula, irmos, Irmologion. Contacts: E-mail: luka@inbox.ru Pp. 10-17.