Psalter of the Croatian Glagolitic Miscellany Slave 73 from 1375

Abstract

The Miscellany Slave73 (Parisien Miscellany) from the French National Library, has a special place among Croatian Glagolitic manuscripts, mainly because it is the oldest surviving Church Slavonic miscellany of Western type, and the only Croatian Glagolitic codex which is undoubtedly connected with town Šibenik, and the only known manuscript written for the nuns at the Curch of St. Julian in Šibenik. During the preparation of the transliterated edition of this manuscript, a detailed examination of the Psalter, which is part of the miscellany, is underway. This Psalter has a special position among Croatian Glagolitic psalters, because it is the only non-liturgical one, and it´s text differs significantly from other Croatian Glagolitic psalters of the 14th and 15th centuries, which consistently preserve the text of the first redaction of the Old Church Slavonic translation of the Psalter, translated from Greek. Therefore, there is a claim in the literature (J. L. Tandarić) that in Slave 73, there is a new translation of the Psalter from Latin, which is completely independent of the translation from the Greek Septuagint. Given that the psalter of the Slave73 also contains some ancient Old Church Slavonic lexemes in the same places as the oldest Old Church Slavonic translation, the question arose as to whether it was really a completely new translation from Latin or only an Old Church Slavonic translation edited according to the Latin version. A comparison of places from the psalter, which differ in Greek and Latin, has shown that there are many of the same translation solutions in Slave73 as in the oldest Old Church Slavonic translation. Therefore, we can confirm that the Psalter of the codex Slave73 is not a completely new translation from Latin without traces of the Greek original, but it is, like other psalters of the Croatian-Glagolitic tradition, the oldest Old Church Slavonic translation of the Psalter, albeit with significant adjustments according to the Latin text and in many places lexically croatized.