Menaion

Each menaion will contain the services for an entire month.

It is a palimpsest, the upper text contains the menaion.

It contains Menaion with lessons to 5 September - 15 February.

The text of menaion was written by Archbishop of Selymeria in 1431.

Often the medieval sticherarion, if it was composed without the book Octoechos had been divided into three books: the menaion, the pentekostarion, and the triodion.

The codex contains a menaion for the month of March, intersecting with the movable cycle of Easter.

Each of the twelve volumes corresponds to a certain month (hence, the name chet'yi-minei or monthly readings, from the Greek word menaion) and subdivided into days.

The Festal Menaion (reprint).

(Greek Menaion).

Their echos or glas and the incipit of the avtomelon are indicated at the beginning, while the chant book Menaion belongs to the Sticherarion.

The Menaion contains a full set of hymns for this day which are chanted in conjunction with the regular Sunday hymns from the Octoechos.

It is subdivided in the stichera for the cycle of the fixed feasts according to the yearly cycle between September and August (Menaion).

It contains Prolegomena, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), pictures, menaion, and subscriptions at the end of the Gospels.

In the Byzantine rite, the offices of the monthly cycle for fixed feasts are gathered in twelve books, one for every month, all together named Menaion.

The Menaion of the Eastern Orthodox Church lists the names of the Forty Martyrs as follows:

Venerable Sinaites of Serbia (from Ravanica) (14th century):These are commemorated on May 19 in the Greek Menaion.

Saint Pachomius of Keno Lake Monastery (1525)He is commemorated on January 31 in the Slavic Menaion.

The feast of Basileus falls on 26 April, on which date it occurs both in the Greek synaxaria and menaion and in the Roman martyrology.

Venerable John of Psichaita the Confessor, of Constantinople (c. 825)Commemorated on May 7 in the Greek Menaion.

Martyrs Symeon, Isaac, and Bachtisius of Persia (339)In the Greek Menaion these are commemorated on May 16.

It is the oldest menaion in Serbian literature, written in the Serbian recension of Old Church Slavonic (Old Serbian).

It was not, however, included in the Great Menaion Reader (Velikie Minei Chetii in Russian) because of its unconventional form and largely secular contents.

The menaion contains the largest collection of liturgical texts that are used in the Eastern Church and is a very important component of the liturgical books owned by a parish or monastery.

Martyr Neon Similarly, the "Great Synaxaristes" lists the following Saints and Martyrs for April 28th; however they are listed for April 29th in the Slavonic menaion:

During Great Lent, some of the portions from the Octoechos and Menaion are replaced by hymns from the Triodion and during the Paschal Season with material from the Pentecostarion.