As a minimum…
Book of Epistles (Apostol)
Book of Gospels (Evangelion/Evangelie)
The Liturgicon (Liturgy Book - may be memorized)
The Menaion (combination of propers, calendar, and martyrology - often multiple volumes)
Typicon (book of rubrics - the how-to book)
The list of what should be in use:
The Euchologion or Trebnik is the corpus of the liturgical and paraliturgical prayers
The Hieraticon/sluzhebnik is the priest’s subset of the Euchologion, often augmented with propers
The Archeraticon/Chivnik is the bishop’s subset of the Eucologion, also often augmented with propers
A Liturgicon is a subset (usually of the hieraticon) for the celebration of the Divine Liturgy (possibly multiple forms), and maybe also Vespers and Matins (possibly including conjoined with the DL), possibly also including selected propers. It’s a generic for any subset of the Trebnik that includes a Divine Liturgy.
The Prophetologion/Paremijnik is the readings for vespers from the OT.
The Psaltir is the psalms broken up for liturgical use.
The Octoechos is the Cantor’s book of melodies.
The Pentecostarion is the book with all the alternate forms for use from Pascha until Pentecost.
The Horologion includes all the liturgical hours’ texts.
Most also have a hymnal, tho’ some liturgikoni include hymns either as text or in fully notated music.
Many also have specific books for certain special cases -
- for example, the Ruthenian Metropolia published a liturgicon for Christmas Vigil as a seperate book - including everything but the readings (and it lists those, but doesn’t include the full text) and hymns for incensation. Likewise, the Paschal Matins and DL are presented as a singular book.
Also, it’s not uncommon for the ambon prayers to be in a separate fairly small book, so that the priest can easily carry it in one hand.
The full Trebnik may be multiple volumes.
Books of blessings may be another subset of the Trebnik.
Also note that many monastic uses include a separate book of blessings for use when there is no priest - they replace the priestly blessings for the hours and other paraliturgical prayers.
