PSALMĖS LIETUVOS DIDŽIOSIOS KUNIGAIKŠTYSTĖS GIESMYNUOSE. XVI AMŽIUS: NUO NESVYŽIAUS KATEKIZMO IKI LIETUVIŠKŲJŲ MERKELIO PETKEVIČIAUS VERTIMŲ
PSALMS FROM THE GRAND DUCHY OF LITHUANIA HYMNBOOKS. 16TH CENTURY: FROM THE NESVYŽIUS CATECHISM TO MERKELIS PETKEVIČIUS’ LITHUANIAN TRANSLATIONS

Summary/Abstract: The article aims at presenting and discussing the earliest reformed publications in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (16 c.), featuring versified translations of Biblical psalms designed for the church repertoire. It also aspires to indicate the trends of this repertoire, adoption and authorship of the texts, as well as to describe them in relation to the most important Polish psalm books of the 16th century. The article focuses on extremely rare collections of the Lithuanian Reformed Church texts that presently exist as unique copies stored in different libraries in Sweden, Switzerland, and Poland. The books comprise: the Nesvyžius Catechism (1563), the Nesvyžius Song Book for Women (1564), Vilnius catechisms of 1581, 1594, and 1598, and Merkelis Petkevičius’ Catechism (1598), the first Lithuanian reformed publication based on the four Polish editions enumerated above.

• Details
• Contents