Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.31953/sz.48.1.7

A COLLECTION OF MAXIMS FROM PETRIS’S AND GRŠKOVIĆ’S MISCELLANIES IN THE CONTEXT OF CROATIAN GLAGOLITIC REFLECTIVE PROSE

Andrea Radošević orcid.org/0000-0001-8695-0573 ; Staroslavenski institut

Abstract

A short collection of maxims from two Croatian Glagolitic miscellanies is analysed in the paper: Petris’s and Gršković’s. The collection consists mostly of quotations and paraphrases of biblical books of wisdom (Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Book of Sirach). With the comparison of two transcripts of the Collection from the mentioned collections with Croatian Glagolitic breviaries, the similarities and differences in the approach to biblical quotations are determined. The confirmation of a free relationship towards the transcribed text can be found in several examples, especially in the compilation from the 16th century. The similarities between the quotations in the Collection and some breviaries, and which we find neither in the Septuagint, nor in the Vulgate, nor in the Prophetologions, point to the possibility of the use of Glagolitic breviaries during the transcribing of the Collection. The paper contributes to the knowledge of Croatian mediaeval reflective prose.

Keywords

mediaeval reflective prose; books of wisdom; collection of maxims; Petris’s Miscellany; Gršković’s Miscellany

Hrčak ID:

265110

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/265110

Publication date:

15.11.2021.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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