Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.53745/ccp.46.91.2
Songbook of Beram in the Context of the Croatian Medieval Poetry
Andrea Radošević
orcid.org/0000-0001-8695-0573
; Old Slavonic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
Marija-Ana Dürrigl
orcid.org/0000-0002-7715-1953
; Old Slavonic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
In this paper authors analyze the poems, together with several short notes, which are found in the subsequently added choral part of the Glagolitic Beram codex, presently known as the First Beram Breviary from the fourteenth century. The basic content of this breviary is the sanctorale cycle. The poetry section of the codex in this work for the first time is named Songbook of Beram. This section consists of several collections of poems, among which someone subsequently added other liturgical and patristic texts. The analysis of these previously uninvestigated poems has showed that among them, besides previously known and investigated pomes such as U vse vrime godišća [At this time of year] and Sudac gnjevan [Die Ires], one can find unique Glagolitic texts such as Milost Duha Svetago [Holy Spirit’s Mercy] and Pohvaļujmo današńi dan [Praise Today]. The sequence of subsequently added texts indicates that they are all thematically and functionally connected, and therefore this songbook contributes to knowledge about the use (reading, listening and memorization) of the text that came to the Glagolitic community from various places and sources. In conclusion, the authors have shown that this Songbook of Beram should be considered as very important not only in the corpus of Glagolitic poetry but also as a significant part of Croatian medieval poetry.
Keywords
Croatian medieval poetry; Glagolitic reading community; Croatian literature in 15th and 16th centuries; breviary; Glagolitic manuscript
Hrčak ID:
308513
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Publication date:
5.10.2023.
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