Kiev leaves
The Kiev sheets are a partially preserved manuscript written in the Old Church Slavonic language and Glagolitic script and consist of seven parchment sheets as well as three front and back pages and a library cover made of saffiano leather . They are named after their storage location in the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Kiev . Its content consists of 38 prayers translated from Latin.
They are considered to be the earliest surviving document of the Slavic script and the pinnacle of Glagolitic literature. The genesis of the Kiev leaves cannot be completely reconstructed. Presumably they were made between the 10th and 12th centuries. There are researchers, the Cyril of Salonika(* 826/827, † 869), the creator of the Glagolitic script, consider it to be the author. Due to certain errors in the text, however, it is assumed that it can only be a copy and not an original by Kyrill or Method. The linguistic style of the sheets is described as archaic and regular, which, in connection with the equally ancient Glagolitic letters, indicates a great age and thus perhaps a copy from the 10th century that a Moravian student Methods could have made from one of his models. The language of the Kiewer Blätter is often interpreted as the Moosburg Slavonic dialect - spoken in the Pannonian Principality and later extinct.
literature
- Jos Schaeken: The Kiever leaves. Rodopi, Amsterdam 1987, ISBN 90-6203-649-X . (= Studies in Slavic and general linguistics. Vol. 9), reading sample on Google Books .
Web links
- Online edition of the Kiev papers on the website of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mareš: Either Moravian OCS from the ninth century (my opinion) or Czech CS from the tenth century (the usual opinion). , 1979
- ^ Kiever Blätter on the website of the German Slavistics server KODEKS
- ↑ Bernhard Symanzik (Ed.): Studia Philologica Slavica Part I, Roman-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 3-8258-9891-1