THE CONTRIBUTION OF JAGIĆ S EDITION OF THE SVETO STEFANSKI HRISOVULJ TO THE STUDY OF PROSODIC PHENOMENA IN 13TH-14TH CENTURY MSS WRITTEN IN "RAŠKI" ORTHOGRAPHY
THE CONTRIBUTION OF JAGIĆ S EDITION OF THE SVETO STEFANSKI HRISOVULJ TO THE STUDY OF PROSODIC PHENOMENA IN 13TH-14TH CENTURY MSS WRITTEN IN "RAŠKI" ORTHOGRAPHY

Summary/Abstract: Vatroslav Jagić’s edition of the Svetostefanski hrisovulj differs in two important respects from that published, also in 1890, by Ljubomir Kovačević: it includes the diacritics used in the manuscript, and it reproduces a page of text, as well as the colophons. Although Jagić had at his disposal limited typographical means to represent diacritics, and followed the practice of the time by introducing modern word divisions, it can be seen from his reproductions that the main scribe of the Svetostefanski hrisovulj employed a distinctive diacritic as a marker of vocalic length and divided his text into prosodic words by means of spacing. Given these clues, it is possible to infer from Jagić’s edition the distribution of diacritics in the manuscript and their implications for vocalic quantity, which he analysed in an article of 1891. More recently the publication of a photographic edition of the whole hrisovulj has not only confirmed Jagić’s findings, but also enabled analysis of the prosodic segmentation indicated in the manuscript. Parallels to the scribal practice of the Svetostefanski hrisovulj are adduced from other manuscripts of the early 14th century.

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