Kormchaia

Номоканонъ
Synodic Kormchaia of 1282 (Novgorod), containing Russkaya Pravda among other articles
Created	second half of the 11th century
Author(s)	churchmen and monks
Purpose	guide book for the management of the church and for the church court; transmission of several old texts

Kórmchaia Book, pl. Kórmchiye Books or Books of the Pilot (Russian: Ко́рмчая книга, Ко́рмчая from кормчий, Old Church Slavonic: кръмьчии mean helmsman, pilot of ship) or Pidalion (Russian: Пидалион from Greek: Πηδάλιον, Πηδαλίων mean stern oar, helm, handle of helm, rudder) or Nomocanon (Russian: Номокано́н from Greek: Νομοκανών from νόμος means law, statute + κᾰνών means canon, rule) are collections of church and secular law (see also Byzantine law), which constituted guide books for the management of the church and for the church court of Orthodox Slavic countries and are transmission of several old texts. It were written in Old Church Slavonic and Old Russian.

Kormchiye Books goes back to the Byzantine Nomocanon, composed in the 6th century by John Scholasticus, patriarch of Constantinople. The Nomocanon was translated for the Bulgarian Church in the second half of the 9th century and then was spread to Rus`. Nomocanons in Russian processing was called "Kormchiye Books" at the end of the 13th century, they were supplemented in Russia by the norms of secular law.