Abstract

Izmaragd is a noncalendar collection of instructions, composed in times of Old Rus' on the basis of existing corpus of, translated or written originally in Slavonic, homilies. Three redactions of Izmaragd are known: Old, Basic and Lithuanian. Izmaragd consists of excerpts from “Treatise against the Bogomils”, written in II half of the X century by Bulgarian writer Presbyter Kozma. Research proved that texts from Treatise against the Bogomils in three redactions of Izmaragd are not the result of direct use of Presbyter Kozma’s work. Compilers of the Old redaction of Izmaragd used chetis sbornik with excerpts from Treatise, from where they borrowed two homilies (chapter 28-29). Compilers of the Basic redaction of Izmaragd removed one text of the Old redaction, and the another changed reworded. Compilers of the Lithuanian redaction saved one homily of the Basic redaction of Izmaragd (chapter 3.VI) and added five texts from Prologue (chapter 72.I, 73.I, 74.I, 30.VII, 318.VII). The article is accompanied by three unpublished texts of homilies, form the Lithuanian redaction of Izmaragd (chapters 72.I, 73.I, 74.I), that originated form the Treatise against the Bogomils.