A Trebnik is a liturgical book that sets forth the rites of the Sacraments and other sacred actions performed by the Church on special occasions and are not primarily part of the temple (public) worship of the daily, weekly and annual cycle.

The book received its name from the word "treba", which in the Old Russian language had a sacred meaning and meant "sacrifice", "sacrifice", "prayer", "performance of a sacred rite".6 At present, the word "treba" refers to prayers and sacred actions performed at the request (according to needs) of one or more Christians in special circumstances of their lives. This refers to all the Sacraments (except for the Eucharist and consecration), molebens, panikhidas, funerals, consecration of houses, and so on.

History of origin

Trebnik

In their origin, the rites of the Sacraments and other sacraments set forth in the Trebnik date back to the time of the apostolic life of the Church. The original Trebniks have not come down to us.

The earliest known sources are the Euchologion of Sarapion, Bishop of Thmuit (Egypt, 4th century), as well as the collection of prayers and services contained in the 8th book of the Apostolic Constitutions.

As the external side of the divine service developed, the number of prayers increased until the eleventh century inclusive.

In the Greek Church, the Trebnik together with the Service Book make up one book, called the Euchologion (Prayer Book).

Manuscripts of the VIII-IX centuries have survived to this day: the Euchologion of the Barberine Library and the Euchologion of the Sinai Monastery, discovered by Bishop Porphyrius (Uspensky) during his journey to the East.

Dmitrievsky A. The same. Pravosl. sobesed., 1883, pp.480 482.

The Trebnik was translated into Slavonic for the first time by Saints Cyril and Methodius (IX century). It was in use until the time of Grand Duke Ivan Danilovich Kalita. Under him, the Greek Theognost, who had been appointed Metropolitan of All Russia, ordered in 1328 that the Trebnik which he had brought with him be translated into Slavonic. His Trebnik came into general use in the Russian Church.

With the advent of printing in Russia (1564), handwritten Trebniks were corrected and published under Patriarchs Philaret (1619-1633), Joasaph I (1634-1640), Joseph (1642-1652), Nikon (1652-1666), Joasaph II (1667-1672), Joachim (1674-1690).

Patriarch Joasaph I supplemented the Trebnik with the appendix of the Council's decrees. The Trebnik, published under Patriarch Joseph in 1651, was called the Great Trebnik. In 1672, Joasaph II published an abridged version of the Great Trebnik. It was called the Small Trebnik. In 1687, Patriarch Joachim improved this edition by printing the Nomocanon (in an abridged form) in the Small Trebnik.

In 1863, in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, with the blessing of the Kiev Metropolitan Arseny, the Additional Trebnik was published.