Sprachlicher Schlüssel zum althochdeutschen Tatian : nach der Ausgabe von Eduard Sievers
Linguistic Key to Old High German Tatian : according to the edition by Eduard Sievers

Author(s): Alexander Deutsch
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Philology, Translation Studies
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: Tatian; Language Key; Althochdeutsch; Old High German
Summary/Abstract: Tatian is an early Christian writer - an apologist from Assyria from the 2nd century, a student of St. Justin the Martyr. He is the author of the first evangelical harmony (Diatessaron)1 probably in the Syriac language2, which was introduced into liturgical use in the Syrian Church and only later replaced by the four separate Gospels. In 546, Bishop Victor of Capua initiated a translation of Tatian's Gospel harmony into Latin. It is assumed that the Latin Codex reached Fulda via Boniface. The translation from Latin into the East Frankish dialect was apparently a joint effort3 of the monastic school under Abbot Hrabanus Maurus, who was a teacher at the monastery of Fulda until 822 and then abbot. Since the 10th century, the first evangelical harmony (Diatessaron) was translated into Latin. The 171-page manuscript Codex G № 56 is located in the Abbey Library of St. Gallen in Switzerland since the 18th century. The Latin and Old High German texts of the Gospel Harmony are arranged in two parallel columns - the Latin text on the left and the Old High German on the right. According to the editor of the Tatian Gospel Harmony in Latin and Old German, Eduard Sievers, despite some minor deviations, there is no doubt that the Latin source of the Old High German translation of Codex Sangallensis 56 is the Latin text from the 6th century revised by Victor of Capua (the so-called Codex Bonifatianus 1 of the Hessian State Library in Fulda, also Codex Fuldensis) ist.4

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