Глаголическая часть Реймского евангелия: история, язык, текст

Ultimo aggiornamento: 26 May 2021

Strachova O.B.

Глаголическая часть Реймского евангелия: история, язык, текст

Paleoslavica, Cambridge, Mass. 2014

Scheda a cura di: Strachova O.B.

ISSN 1070-5465


PALAEOSLAVICA, International Journal for the Study of Slavic Medieval Literature, History, Language and Ethnology

VOLUME 22 - 2014, SUPPLEMENTUM 3 

In the entire corpus of Slavic literature one may hardly find a manuscript with a more eventful history than the famous Reims Gospel. The manuscript consists of two parts: the Cyrillic section (REcyr) and the Glagolitic section (REgl). The time and place ofREcyr’s creation is unknown. Some consider it an East Slavic manuscript of the first half of the eleventh century; others, a Serbi­an manuscript of the second half of the twelfth century. REgl fol­lows the Catholic rite.

From its colophon we learn that            

     (a) this Glagolitic part was writ­ten in 1395;            

     (b) it contains readings for solemn masses, during which the abbot of the monastery served in episcopal attire;            

     (c) that the Cyrillic section was, the colophon states, written in Saint Procopius of Sazava’s own hand: Pro­copius of Sazava died on March 25, 1053 and was, and is, one of the most revered Czech saints, a great champion of the liturgy in Slavonic, at least ac­cord­ing to his vitae; and finally,            

     (d) that the manu­script had been donated to the (unnamed) monastery by its founder, Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, for the greater glory of the monastery and in honor of Sts. Jerome and Procopius.            

Despite the fact that the monastery in question is not named in the colophon, the men­tion of Charles IV as its founder, as well as of St. Jerome and St. Procopius as its patron saints, point to this text as having been copied in the Prague Emmaus Benedictine Monastery, founded in 1347 by Charles IV. The monastery was dedicated, among others, to Sts. Jerome and Procopius, its monks worshipped in Slavonic using Glagolitic liturgical texts, and its Abbot served in episcopal attire, a privilege granted to the monas­tery’s abbots on February 3, 1350 by Pope Clement VI.           

The scholarly literature on the Reims Gospel is enormous and full of inferences which are, very often, speculative and questionable, occasionally reliable and plausible, and inevitably intriguing. Thus we read in various scholarly accounts suggestions that REcyr was copied in Kiev for Princess Anna Yaroslavna (c. 1030-1075), later the queen consort of France as the widow of Henry I of France and regent for her son Philip I; or that the manuscript was produced in the court of Serbian Despota Helen for St. Louis IX; or that the manuscript was written by Saint Procopius of Sazava, or even by Saint Methodius, Apostle to the Slavs, himself; that it was given by Anna Yaroslavna, queen of France, to Roger, Bishop of Châlons; or that it was deli­vered to France by crusaders who plundered Constantinople in 1204; or that it was donated to the Reims Cathedral by Cardinal Charles of Lorraine; that it was used in the coronation of French kings, from Henry III to Louis XVI; that it was none other than Russian Tsar Peter the Great, who, while visiting Reims on June 22, 1717, determined the Slavonic origin of the manuscript; or that it was his vice-chancellor Count Shafirov; or the Russian ambassador Prince Kurakin in 1726, etc., etc.           

The book (263 pp.) puts aside this mass of divergent secondary literature and offers a completely new perspective on the Glagolitic part of the manuscript.  

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Загадки и догадки:
Из Константинополя в Реймс. Вместо введения           
Внешний вид рукописи, p. 2           
Обстоятельства появления Евангелия в Реймсе, p. 7 

Глава І. Графика и орфография РЕгл           
Графика РЕгл, p.12           
Орфография и фонетика памятника, p. 18                       
     1. Об этническом составе Эммаусского монастыря в 1395 г., p.18                       
     2. Проблема редуцированных гласных, p. 20                       
     3. Рефлекс *ě, p. 22                       
     4. Рефлекс *ę, p. 24                       
     5. Рефлекс *dj, p. 25           
Несколько наблюдений над лексикой и текстологией РЕгл, p. 27 

Глава ІI. Состав чтений РЕгл           
Введение, p. 31           
Состав чтений РЕгл, p. 32           
Проблема выбора чтений и праздников в РЕгл, p. 53 

Глава ІII. Жанр РЕгл с литургической точки зрения         
Введение, p. 71           
Жанры глаголических памятников, p. 73           
Лекционарии на народных языках, p. 74           
Хорватские лекционарии ХV-ХVІ вв., p. 75 

Глава ІV. Литургический год по РЕгл            
Введение, p. 83           
Литургический год по РЕгл, p. 85           
Вербное воскресение 1350 г., p. 87           
Роль РЕкир в выборе календарной точки отсчета в РЕгл, p. 92 

Глава V. РЕгл как паралитургический текст           
Введение, p. 97           
Писцы, рубрикатор и иллюминатор РЕгл, p. 98           
Реймское евангелие и пражский фрагмент латинского Евангелия от Марка, p. 109           
     Версия А. Реймское евангелие как подарок важному лицу, p. 110           
     Версия Б. Реймское евангелие как артефакт, p. 111 

Загадки и догадки:
Из Праги в Константинополь. Вместо заключения, p. 113 
Список цитируемой литературы, p. 115 
Summary.Glagolitic Part of the Reims Gospel: History, Language, Text, p. 125 
Глаголическая часть Реймского Евангелия: публикация текста с параллелями из Хервоева и Нью-Йоркского миссалов, p. 139