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The Book of Daniel in the Breviary of Vid of Omišalj

2008

Abstract

Since Rajko NAHTIGAL (1902:215-216) and Ivan EVSEEV (1905:XLIII) noticed that some verses of the Book of Daniel appeared in the archaic Croatian Glagolitic breviaries in the version of this book known as Symeonic version or catena version – that is a translation made from Greek in the First Bulgarian Kingdom, most probably in the time of Tsar Symeon – the Book of Daniel has been discussed in the scholarly literature on the Slavonic Bible and on manuscript circulation and text transmission among the South Slavs in the Middle Ages.1 Therefore, we believe that the edition of the Book of Daniel in the Breviary of Vid of Omišalj (BrVO) could contribute to this discussion which concerns also other biblical books and sources.2 This breviary written in 1396 belongs to the archaic group of Croatian Glagolitic manuscripts (known as northern group or recension A) and it contains the longest text of the Book of Daniel 1-5: 4 (without 3:58-3:88.1): the other breviaries known to us have either 12...