Po stopam gumanistov: Maksim Grek i “Otče naš'' tolkovoi”

This essay is dedicated to the Pater noster Commentary (Otče naš’’ tolkovoi), a commentary on the Pater noster that is found in a manuscript collection of Maximus the Greek’s works, the ms. RNB OLDP О. 176, and until now has been erroneously counted among his original writings. The text is here restored to the Slavic tradition of Pseudo-Chrysostom’s Interpretatio orationis Pater noster (CPG 4596) and for the first time identified as a witness to the third version of the second redaction of the Slavic translation, which I suggest may have been copied from the ms. GIM Čud. nr. 167. In the Slavic tradition, the version of the Interpretatio chosen by Maximus the Greek did not enjoy textual autonomy but was included in the Tolkovaja služba within the Kormčaja kniga of the Čudovskyj type. In researching, selecting and relocating the text, Maximus the Greek shows a humanist sensibility, moving in the footsteps and applying the method of his Italian teachers, and especially following the example of the camaldolese monk Pietro Candido in the arrangement of the ms. BNCF Conventi soppressi G.II.496.