Scribes of ancient Ukrainian Vienna Octoechos: towards actualization of issue

The purpose of the study is to identify the scribes who worked on the creation of the Old Ukrainian Codex of Vienna (kept in the Austrian National Library, Vindob.Slav.37).The methodological foundations of the study are based on the principles of historicism, scientific objectivity, and systematicity; the applied codicological, paleographic, and linguistic methods and a special methodology for analysing marginal records helped to obtain the latest data and critically analyse the previously obtained data, and allowed to systematically present information about the scribes of the Vienna Octoechos and the texts they wrote.The novelty of the work is due to the systematic multidisciplinary identification of the scribes of the Vienna Octoechos.For the first time, based on the results of a codicological and paleographic study of the writing, spelling, and language of the main part of the manuscript, marginal texts, and 121 records, nine scribes, the boundaries of their work, and, with a certain probability, the names of individuals have C ite :