Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.31745/s.72.6
Newly Discovered Glagolitic Fragment of Breviary from Samobor
Marinka Šimić
; Old Church Slavonic Institute, Zagreb
Abstract
The paper analyses the Second Samobor Breviary Fragment (FgSmb2 ), discovered in the Franciscan Monastery of the Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary in Samobor in 2020. Paleographic and linguistic analysis has confirmed that FgSmb2 was part of a 14th-century Croatian Glagolitic breviary of large physical dimensions, which was likely brought to the monastery by an unknown Glagolitic priest who fled to Samobor from the Ottoman invasion of southern Croatian lands. In terms of its content, FgSmb2 is a temporal with readings for Christmas and the Octave of Christmas, including a part of the Letter of St. Augustine of Hippo, the Sermo of Leo the Great, and the beginning of the reading of Gospel of Luke. This fragment is linguistically and textologically compared to 12 Croatian Glagolitic breviaries: BrVb1 , BrVat5 , BrVO, BrPm, BrDrag, BrMa, BrVat19, BrVinod, BrVat10, BrN2 , BrRom and BrLab2 . The critical apparatus includes variants from three Croatian Glagolitic breviaries, one of which belongs to the older northern group (BrVb1 ), one from the southern group (BrLab2 ) and one from the so-called transitional group of manuscripts (BrN2 ). In terms of the length of its readings, FgSmb2 corresponds most closely to BrVb1 , BrVO, BrN2 , BrLab2 and BrVinod, while its lexical and textological details correspond fairly well with BrVat19. The greatest number of omissions as compared to FgSmb2 were noted in BrVO, BrVat5 , BrVinod and BrRom, and the least in BrVat19. The greatest number of additions were noted in BrVat5 , followed by BrDrag; the least were noted in BrVat19. The word order in FgSmb2 diverges most from BrMa and least from BrVat19 and BrVinod; the greatest number of textological doublets are found in BrVat5 , BrLab2 and BrDrag, while the least are found in BrPm. The aforementioned data leads to the conclusion that FgSmb2 is most textologically similar to BrVat19 and most textologically divergent from BrVat5 , which also differs from FgSmb2 and other breviary texts in its order of readings. The linguistic factors that date this fragment to the 14th century are: examples of the vocalisation of yer are infrequent, and yat is preserved in its original places. In FgSmb2 , žd stands in place of d + j, reflecting the older state as in 12th and 13th century fragments in which đerv is written only in the foreign words: e(van)ĵ(e)lski C6, anĵ(e)lь C14, C36-D1, with only one exception: voĵinьstvo C25 . On the morphological level, regular Church Slavonic forms are preserved in all word types and forms, displaying negligible influence of folk speech, e.g. in the third person singular present puĉa se B8, čini se B6, as well as in the first person plural nêsmo B29, which appear in the rubric where more recent (Croatian) forms and vocabulary are typically present. The lexical comparison of FgSmb2 with other Croatian Glagolitic breviaries shows that its text is lexically most similar to the oldest Croatian Glagolitic breviary BrVb1 . The greatest differences between manuscripts relate to older Old Church Slavonic and more recent Croatian versions of words; FgSmb2 regularly uses older expressions. It displays the greatest degree of lexical differences with BrMa.
Keywords
Second Samobor Breviary Fragment; Sermon of St Augustine of Hippo; Sermon of Leo the Great; Croatian recension of the Church Slavonic Language; textology
Hrčak ID:
269770
URI
Publication date:
31.12.2021.
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