ABSTRACT
Eighteen manuscripts in Greek are discussed in this chapter. The designation “Tropologion” is bared either in their initial rubrics or in the inscriptions. The manuscripts are from the eighth through ninth to the twelfth centuries and represent different types. The three issues that are studied, the arrangement of the repertory, the genres included and the liturgical calendar, unquestionably confirm the earlier stage of the compilation of the Tropologion, which might have been done in Jerusalem or in its outer lying region, outline its uninterrupted development from Jerusalem to the Studios monastery in Constantinople and beyond, and place it among the most important primary sources that help us to situate the early context of the liturgy in the East and the items performed in it.
