Prague leaves

The Prague Leaves or Prague Glagolitic Fragments (Czech Pražské hlaholské zlomky ) are two sheets of parchment with texts in Church Slavonic in Glagolitic script . They were probably made in the 11th century in the Sázava monastery near Prague . Short prayers (hymns) based on the Byzantine model are written on one sheet of paper, and liturgical texts on the Great Lent before Easter are written on the other .

The sheets are probably copies of texts that were written around the mission of Method in the Moravian Empire in the later 9th or early 10th century. They contain some bohemisms and are one of the few surviving texts in Church Slavonic of western Slavic origin (cf. Old Church Slavonic literature in the Great Moravian Empire ).

The sheets were discovered in 1855 by Constantin von Höfler , Professor of History at Charles University in Prague , and are now in the library of the Prague Cathedral Chapter , call number N 57.

expenditure

• Glagolitic fragments edited by Karl Adolph Constantin Höfler and Paul Joseph Šafařík . Prague: Gottlieb Haase Sons, 1857. 62 pp.
• František Václav Mareš, An Anthology of Church Slavonic Texts of Western (Czech) Origin , Munich 1979.

literature

• Josef Hrabák (Ed.), Dějiny české literatury . T. 1 .: Starší česká literatura , Československá akademie věd Praha 1959, pp. 54, 55, 59