ODKAZ PRĚSLAVSKÉ ŠKOLY V CHORVATSKOCÍRKEVNĚSLOVANSKÝCH LITURGICKÝCH PAMÁTKÁCH
THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE PRESLAV SCHOOL AND THE CROATIAN CHURCH SLAVONIC LITUGICAL MONUMENTS

Summary/Abstract: This article is devoted to analysis of the text of John's Gospel which is present in the Croatian Glagolitic Missals and Breviaries created before the 15th century. Research has shown that these liturgical books contain one of the early versions of Old Slavonic translation of the Gospel, which in some Croatian sources was again fixed after Latin originals or subjected to linguistic Croatization. The Gospel text of the Croatian Breviaries and Missals which has not been subjected to a secondary correction often coincides with the Preslav edition of the Gospel. This is the result of a comparison between these Glagolitic sources and a critical edition of the Church Slavonic Gospel of John, prepared by a team of researchers led by A. Alexeev. Cases of coincidence between the Croatian texts and the more recent Cyrillic editions are very rare and not entirely convincing which excludes the possibility of later changes in the Glagolitic sources after Cyrillic copies. That Preslav edition of John's Gospel has been used in the preparation of Croatian liturgical books where it later developed independently within the framework of its own textological tradition.

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