Original scientific paper
Unnoticed fragments of Muka Isuhrstova (The Passion of Christ, 1514) from Berčić’s Petrograd miscellany
Amir Kapetanović
orcid.org/0000-0002-8013-9330
; Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
Abstract
Although I. Milčetić in his description of the first code of Berčić’s Petrograd miscellany of Glagolitic texts mentions the prologue to The Passion of Christ, he does not notice a fragment from a medieval play containing the scene where Judas betrays Christ later in the text. That scene was particularly disturbing for the medieval folk because lies, betrayal, and insincerity were often most frowned upon. This paper contains fragments of the unknown edition of The Passion of Christ from Berčić’s Petrograd miscellany (The First Codex), which is published and analyzed here for the first time. They represent the oldest written prologue and scene so far from a Croatian medieval play with Christ’s Passion as the subject matter. The verses of the fragments are compared with the later cyclic The Passion of Our Saviour (1556), which, within the corpus of Croatian medieval poetry, is the closest match to these fragments.
Keywords
Š. Klimantović; I. Berčić; Glagolitic script; medieval drama; Old-Croatian (Čakavian) language
Hrčak ID:
35282
URI
Publication date:
6.4.2009.
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