Four mysterious chapter titles in "Rozmyślanie przemyskie" and what they say about the lost autograph Cover Image

Jak zagadkowe cztery tytuły rozdziałów w Rozmyślaniu przemyskim pozwalają wyobrażać sobie jego zagubiony autograf
Four mysterious chapter titles in "Rozmyślanie przemyskie" and what they say about the lost autograph

Author(s): Wacław Twardzik, Tomasz Mika
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego
Keywords: Rozmyślanie przemyskie; apocryph; autograph; Old Polish syntax

Summary/Abstract: The present study is an attempt to answer the question why some of the chapter titles of Rozmyślanie przemyskie, the largest Polish medieval apocrypha, have been placed wrongly, ingoring the sentence boundaries (the titles in question smash the boundaries of chapters). Authors think that some of the chapter titles of the sole surviving manuscript of Rozmyślanie originally - presumably in the authograph - had a form of extensive margin notes, and eventually they were included into the main text due to scribal mistakes of a copyist (or consecutive copyists). The syntactic analysis lead to a conclusion that the assumed marginal notes of the authograph were written by several scribes.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 321-334
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish