Le patriarche Taraise, Jean Moshos et la femme de Potiphar dans un synaxaire insolite (Sainte-Trinité 71)
Résumé
The manuscript Holy Trinity 71 (14th c.) of the Patriarchal Library in Istanbul is a very curious
specimen of the Synaxarion of Constantinople that mixes the commemorations of saints for the
winter semester—several of which were rewritten to connect some saints with the monastery
founded by Patriarch Tarasius on the Bosporus—with a very large number of spiritually beneficial
tales. The article proposes a comprehensive study of the many peculiarities of this manuscript
concluding on the hypothesis that it could have been compiled specifically for a convent of
nuns in Palaiologan Constantinople. The study consists of three parts. In the first part, the
commemorations of saints specifically related to the monastery of Tarasios are edited and the
promotion of this particular monastery is commented on. The second part analyses the collection
of edifying stories brought together by the compiler and highlights his interest for stories about
women and Constantinopolitan nunneries. The third part offers an edition of a particular tale
concerning an aristocratic adulteress, which underwent an in-depth metaphrasis to serve an
uncommon moral.
Domaines
Histoire
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