Втората южнославянска редакция на Нестишния пролог
The Second South Slavic Redaction of the Non-Verse (Plain) Prolog

Summary/Abstract: The Non-Verse (Plain) Prolog is a Slavic book which contains short texts about saints and feasts for every day of the year. There are two South Slavic redactions of the Non-Verse Prolog. The existence of the second redaction was recently discovered. It is less common than the first and is found only in Serbian manuscripts. But Prolog readings are also included in some Office Menaia. Three Prolog readings are represented in this article according to two manuscripts of the Non-Verse Prolog: the Lesnovo Prolog from 1330 (a representative of the first redaction) and the Zagreb Prolog from the 13th -14th centuries (a representative of the second redaction), as well as according to two Office Menaia: The Draganov Menaion from the end of the 13th century and the Ohrid Menaion from 1435. The comparison shows that there are differences between the first and the second redaction, both at the lexical and syntactic levels, and sometimes entire expressions have been changed. Moreover, in some cases the text in one of the two redactions is significantly longer. The readings in the Draganov Menaion are according to the first redaction for the first half of the year (September-February) and according to the second – for the second half of the year (March-August), while the readings in the Ohrid Menaion always follow the second redaction. Further, there are common errors between the two South Slavic redactions, while Old Russian manuscripts with correct reading are known. This witnesses that the medieval translation of the Non-Verse Prolog was created among the Eastern Slavs and was later brought to the Balkans.

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