Barlaam Yasynskyi’s Sermon «On the Resurrection of Christ and the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary»

The sermons of Barlaam Yasynskyi, the Metropolitan of Kyiv, Galicia, and All Rus, a talented orator and thinker of the 17th century, are still unknown to a wide audience, as they exist in a single manuscript version. In this article, we propose to familiarize ourselves with the first metagraphed and described text of the sermon «On the Resurrection of Christ and the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary», which is interesting in terms of content, presentation, oratory skills, and philosophical views of the author. The sermon contains information that allows us to date the compilation of the collection, since until now the chronology has been determined only approximately. In the article accompanying the publication of the source, the authors suggest that the sermon itself should be dated March 25, 1695. The accompanying article also analyzes the linguistic features of the sermon, in particular, the tendency to record Ukrainian linguistic features in writing, despite the dominant Church Slavonic book tradition, which is clearly expressed in the sermon published here. The authors describe the peculiarities of the transmission of the sounds of live speech, certain grammatical phenomena, and stylistic devices.