How well did Hval know the Psalter?
How well did Hval know the Psalter?

Summary/Abstract: The psalter contained in the Hvalov zbornik of 1404 (Kuna et al. 1986) is the only example of this text extant in manuscripts associated with the Bosnian krstjani. It has been variously interpreted as evidence either that they did not in fact reject the Old Testament, or that they were familiar only with those books of Scripture which were most frequently used liturgically in the medieval church: the Gospels, Acts and Epistles, and Psalter. On the basis of detailed textual analysis, it is argued: 1. that as indicated by Jagoda Jurić-Kappel, Hval’s psalter is dependent on a revised translation which came into use among the Orthodox Bulgarians and Serbs in the fourteenth century; 2. that the unusual presentation of the text and the numerous corruptions which it exhibits suggest that the scribe was not familiar with any Church Slavonic version of the Psalter.

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