Original scientific paper
THE ROLE OF THE ZADARSKI LEKCIONAR IN THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE GENESIS OF THE OLDEST CROATIAN LECTIONARIES
Vuk-Tadija Barbarić
orcid.org/0000-0003-1001-437X
; Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
This paper questions the well accepted hypothesis formulated by F. Fancev about the genesis of the Croatian lectionaries through the Croatization of Church Slavonic templates. First, we review some of the well known facts about Zadarski lekcionar (a 14th/15th century manuscript from Zadar) and recent findings about its relations to the Italian lectionaries through Ranjina Lectionary (an early 16th century
manuscript from Dubrovnik). S. Graciotti was the first to recognize two redactions in Zadarski lekcionar. In this paper, through a new interpretation of the problem of redactions, we reveal the importance of Zadarski lekcionar in the understanding of the genesis of the Croatian lectionaries. Therefore this paper presents the natural
continuation of the Graciotti’s research. It is shown that Croatian lectionaries, aside from mandatory influence of the Latin Vulgate, were very likely developing under both Italian and Church Slavonic influences, and that it is highly unlikely that they have developed directly from Italian or Church Slavonic matrix.
Keywords
the genesis of Croatian lectionaries; the Croatization of Church Slavonic templates hypothesis; horizontal and vertical translation; contamination; liturgical structure; redaction; Italian lectionaries; textual criticism; Vulgate; Zadarski lekcionar
Hrčak ID:
177510
URI
Publication date:
30.3.2017.
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