Kormchaia Book

The Kormchaia Book, also known as the Book of the Pilot, the Pidalion, or the Nomocanon, is a body of texts in Old Church Slavonic and Old East Slavic combining church and secular law that guided the administration and courts of the Orthodox Slavic churches. It traces to a sixth century Byzantine Nomocanon compiled by John Scholasticus, was translated for the Bulgarian church in the late ninth century, and reached Rus, where Russian versions supplemented with local secular law appear from the eleventh century. A Serbian translation of around 1225 was proposed by Metropolitan Kirill in 1274 as guidance for the Russian church, and by the thirteenth century a Synodic version combined Bulgarian and Serbian material with Russian legal texts including Russkaya Pravda and princely church statutes to become the most widely distributed recension. Major revisions followed in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and printed editions appeared as the Joseph Kormchaia in 1650, the Nikon Kormchaia in 1653, and the Ekaterina Kormchaia in 1787, with a final edition in 1816, after which the Book of Rules, collecting Orthodox canons and ecumenical council decrees, replaced it in Russia. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/