O wariantywności w Psałterzu floriańskim
On variation in Saint Florian Psalter

Summary/Abstract: The paper is a part of the stream of research in which particular attention is being paid to the very process of creation of mediaeval text and reveals the strata that arose through the influence of such elements as the role of copyists, work by ear or from the source, the memory factor, and the bilingualism of the writers. The author’s interest is in the relation between two languages, Polish and Latin. He analyzes those places where identical Latin fragments correspond to different portions on the Polish side. This variation can be seen at each level of language, from the phonetic-graphical, through the inflexional and word-formative, up to the syntactic and lexical. One needs to bear in mind the possibility of various Latin redactions, and the fact that certain features of the translation mirror not the Latin source but a Czech, German, or an older and not preserved Polish version. Then, referring to Latin is purely a convention.

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