Freising monuments
As Freising Manuscripts ( Slovenian Brižinski spomeniki , Latin. Monumenta Frisingensia ) a series of three texts in the Slovenian language is called, in the second half of the 10th century or the first half of the 11th century were written down and thus the oldest evidence of Slovene language and any Slavic language written in Latin script . The written monuments also provide information about the etymology and language of the Slavic carantans . The name of the documents refers to the origin of the documents.
content
The Freising Monuments consist of three independent church texts on parchment , which are contained in a Latin codex , the so-called mission manual of Bishop Abraham . This refers to Bishop Abraham von Freising (957–993). Two of the texts contain confessional formulas , the third text represents a confession homily . The Carolingian minuscule was used as script . Noteworthy is the complete lack of Germanisms , which indicates a predominantly Slavic population in this region.
History and reception
The texts were written between 972 and 1039 and were used in church practice as part of the missionary work of the Freising diocese in its possessions in Carinthia. It is not clear where the Freising monuments were written down. The manuscripts were probably created in the lower Mölltal , where the diocese of Freising had properties on the Lurnfeld .
As a result of the secularization of church properties in Bavaria, decided in 1803 , the codex came into the holdings of the Bavarian State Library in Munich , where the Freising monuments were discovered in 1807. The manuscript is still there today (Clm 6426).
In connection with the increasing national aspirations of the Slavic peoples of Austria-Hungary , Slavic linguistics began to look for the origins and commonalities of the Slavic languages. Against this background, the first text edition of the Freising Monuments was created in 1822 by the Slovenian linguist Jernej Kopitar , which was published in Vienna . Kopitar even suspected that Bishop Abraham von Freising was of Slovenian origin and that he himself was the author of the manuscripts.
There is a facsimile edition of the Freising Monuments that was published in Ljubljana before the Second World War .
meaning
The Freising Monuments are not only the oldest evidence of the Slovene language, but also of a Slavic language in Latin script. They were created around the same time as the oldest surviving texts in Old Church Slavonic .
literature
- Heinz Dieter Pohl and Philosophical Faculty of the University of Ljubljana (ed.): The Slavia submersa in Austria. An overview and attempt at re-evaluation . In: Linguistica XLV - Ioanni Orešnik septuagenario in honorem oblata I , Ljubljana 2005, pp. 129–150 ( ISSN 0024-3922 )
Web links
- Brižinski spomeniki - Monumenta Frisingensia. Digital critical edition with facsimile, transcriptions, translations, concordance glossary, bibliography, summary. Ljubljana, 2007
- Description of the Freising monuments with audio sample
- The entire manuscript Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 6426 in the culture portal bavarikon
- ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: display of the pages with the Slovene text, spoken in the Slovene language of the time with the translation into modern Slovene as well as the translation into English and German. )
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Mirko Bogataj: The Carinthian Slovenes - A people on the edge of the middle . kitab-Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-902585-16-5 .
Freising monuments (11th century) | Klagenfurt manuscript (12th century) | Parakeet manuscript (15th century) | Carniolan manuscript (15th century) | Castelmonte manuscript (15th century) Cergneuer manuscript (15th / 16th century)