Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.31337/oz.77.4.5
Glagolitic Notes in the Second Novi Breviary (1495): Sources of Late Medieval Cultural and Ecclesiastical History
Zrinka Vitković
orcid.org/0000-0003-4061-0877
; Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Library, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The paper presents results taken from a codicological analysis of the Second Novi Breviary, a late medieval Croatian Glagolitic liturgical codex. The first section shows the content analysis of colophons and younger notes from the calendar. In the second section, findings are complemented by data from the Glagolitic records of three other Church codices (the Blagdanar of Priest Andrew, the First Novi Breviary and the Novi Missal) from the Glagolitic Novi Parish region to confirm their overall importance in the study of late medieval cultural and ecclesiastical history. At the end of the 15th and beginning of the 16th centuries, several well–educated priests and monks borrowed Glagolitic Church codices from each other, copied them for each other and recorded in them Glagolitic notes with details related to events and persons that are significant not only in regard to cultural and ecclesiastical history, but also Croatian history in general. At the time they were written, these records were accessible and understandable only to a small circle of educated priests and monks. Nevertheless, there is no doubt that their authors believed the content would become known in the future to others who would understand it, and so they would save from oblivion the memory not only of the events described, and the names of the individuals mentioned, but also the memory of themselves.
Keywords
Church codices; Second Novi Breviary; Glagolitic notes; Middle Ages; ecclesiastical history; Glagolitic priests
Hrčak ID:
284003
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Publication date:
5.10.2022.
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