SENJSKI LOBKOVICOV PSALTIR IZ 1359. GODINE
The Senj Lobkovic Psalter of 1359

Summary/Abstract: In the article the author analyzes the distribution of psalms in Lobkovic's psalter of 1359 (Lob) on certain services of days and weeks. The psalms are usually preluded by the oldest psalm antiphonies. Appart from these two most stable constituent elements of every hour Lob does not register other parts which form the physiognomy of the hour as: hymns, responsories, capitularies and orations, which were found in separate collections. The division of psalms on hours correspondsto their distribution in liturgy books of the Western church from the sixth century on. Lob is written over the whole page. This is characteristic for the old way of codex writing. Large initials mark the beginning of psalms, their traditional ornaments remind us of the Romanic decoration of Latin codices thus giving Lob the patina of great antiquity. In Lob codex the psalms are divided into common services for holidays of saints of all categories. They contain all elements which form a corpus of certain hours so that part of Lob, f. 99v-159v Commune sanctorum, shows the Franciscan redaction of the breviary of 13th century, in which all old collections of elements of certain hours were integrated. Ps 113 is replaced by Ps 116 on I. Evening, the ninth responsory of the Morning is replaced by the hymn Te Deum while all hours have only one final oration. Such a structure is seen in 17 services in Lob, in the services which honour saints who have no office of their own. Nevertheless the service in the honour of Saint Trinity differs from others as it has an older composition of hours with three long hours: I. Evening, Morning with laudations and II. Evening. These hours have their own orations. Two of them, the first and the third have been extinguished. The first and the second have been recorded by old Roman and Ambrosian sacramentaries of 9th century. Saint Trinity office contains language rarities such as: Spasb instead of Isus, prefix vi instead of iz, p repositioning instead of po. This implies that Lob belongs to the oldest Krk i. e. Vrbnik cycle of Glagolitic liturgic codices. More Glagolitic fragments of the breviary of older redaction with many extinguished orations (Vrbnik and Trst fragments of 13th century) originate from this cycle. These prayers obviously connect Croatian Glagolitic liturgic codices with Cyrillo-Metho-dian literary liturgic fond of 10th or at the latest 11th century when a translation of Old Church Slavonic sacramentals, the books of the oldest mass prayers common to Old Church Slavonic liturgy books, existed.

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