Book of Nature in Croatian Glagolitic sermones de sanctis
Book of Nature in Croatian Glagolitic sermones de sanctis

Summary/Abstract: One of the most important sources for researching the Book of Nature in the Croatian Glagolitic medieval literature are sermon collections. The chapters based on the Book of Nature are found in the de sanctis cycle of the four Glagolitic manuscripts from the 16th century (Disipul A, Disipul B, Disipul C, Disipul D) . All the chapters were translated from the Latin sermon collection known as Hortulus reginae, which was written in the 15th century by German priest Magister Petrus Meffordis from Leipzig. His interpretation of the saint’s biography is partly based on the development of analogies between selected parts of the respective hagiography and details from the Book of Nature inserted from various sources. The aim of the paper is to analyse his specific approach to linking the hagiographical and the natural, and also to examine the sources of the knowledge of nature transmitted in Glagolitic literature through the translation of texts from Hortulus reginae.

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