St. Jerome’s Homilies on Luke’s Gospel in Croatian Glagolitic Breviaries

: MIHALJEVIĆ, Ana – MIHALJEVIĆ, Milan. St. Jerome’s Homilies on Luke’s Gospel in Croatian Glagolitic Breviaries. Two St. Jerome’s homilies on pericopes from the Gospel according to Luke occur in Croatian Glagolitic breviaries. The homily on L 11.4, which was read on the third Sunday in Lent, has been preserved in 19, and the homily on L 16.1, which was read on the eighth Sunday after Pentecost, in 22 breviaries. In some breviaries, the text is shorter and divided into lections differently than in others. In the paper, we will compare the texts from all breviaries, determine the differences between them, and describe the language of both homilies. We will also compare the Church Slavonic text with its Latin original, analyse the translation techniques, and try to determine when the text has been translated from Latin into Church Slavonic. V niektorých breviároch je text kratší a rozdelený na čítania inak ako v ostatných. V štúdii porovnávame texty zo všet-kých breviárov, určujeme rozdiely medzi nimi a popisujeme jazyk oboch homílií. Porovnávame tiež cirkevný slovanský text s jeho latinským originálom, analyzujeme prekladateľské techniky a snažíme sa určiť, kedy bol text preložený z latinčiny do cirkevnej slovančiny. SUMMARY: ST. JEROME›S HOMILIES ON LUKE’S IN CROATIAN GLAGOLITIC BREVIARIES. The aim of this study is to analyse the translations of Jerome’s homilies on L 11.4 and L 16.1 in Croatian Glagolitic breviaries. The first homily has been preserved in 19 breviaries, and the second in 22 breviaries. Nine breviaries have a shorter version of the first homily and eleven breviaries have a shorter version of the second homily. The translation is the same in all codices. Textual differences between the breviaries are neither numerous nor significant. Stemmatological relations between the preserved texts are very complicated, since the redactions are mutually entangled. We can distinguish the northern group of codices from Krk (Vb 1 , Pad, Vb 2 and VO), characterised by the older redaction, from the typical representatives of the southern, more innovative group (Vat 5 , Mosk, and Pt). The transitional group (N 1 , Vat 10 , Dab, Brib, and N 2 ) sometimes has the older reading, sometimes the younger, and sometimes both readings. The errors in the oldest preserved text, from First Vrbnik Breviary (beginning of the 14th century), show that the texts have been copied from an older Glagolitic protograph. Both texts of St. Jerome’s homilies on Luke’s Gospel have been translated from Latin into Croatian Church Slavonic very faithfully. The homilies in younger breviaries follow the Latin original more closely. In some cases, the scribe had changed the original text, which mirrors the Latin original adjusting it to what he probably regarded as the Latin norm. The analysis of the translation technique shows that the translator mostly translated the Latin text following the usual translation norms. By translating the forms and constructions that have no formal correspondent in Croatian Church Slavonic, the translator showed that he was familiar with the most common means of translating these features. In the second homily, there are some parts that the translator probably did not understand. These cases show the translator’s tendency to aberrate from the original in order to make the text more understandable. Due to the facts: 1. that in the texts the construction of absolute dative, which was obsolete after the 13th century, is attested, 2. that the oldest breviary in which the texts have been preserved is from the end of the 13th or the beginning of the 14th century, 3. that the errors in that breviary attest that it has been copied from an earlier Glagolitic protograph, we can conclude that the texts have been translated at the latest in mid-13th century, most probably immediately after the reform of liturgical books and the formation of the plenary missal and breviary.