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Vatican Croatian Prayer Book is the oldest Croatian vernacular prayer book and the finest example of early
štokavian vernacular literary idiom.
Written between
1380 and
1400 in
Dubrovnik as a transcript and transliteration from older texts composed in a mixture of Church Slavonic and
čakavian idioms and written down in
Glagolitic and
Bosnian Cyrillic scripts, it retained a few phonological and morphological features found in the original
manuscripts. The book contains the following parts: Offices of the Virgin Mary according to the rites of the Roman Church; seven penitentiary psalms; Offices of the Holy Cross; Offices for the dead; Offices of the Holy Spirit as well as numerous prayers. The script is the Roman Gothic, embroidered with luxuriantly outlined initials and miniatures. The name of the prayer book reflects the fact that it's held in the Vatican library. The text has become widely known from 1859, when influential Croatian historian Franjo Rački drew attention to it, but the first critical edition didn't appear until the 20th century: Croatian literary historian and philologist Franjo Fancev published «Vatican Croatian prayer book» in
1934.
The book's central importance lies in the fact that it's the first major
štokavian vernacular text. Although proto-štokavian and mixed Church Slavonic-štokavian manuscripts are known to have appeared a century or two before the «Vatican Croatian prayer book», this is the first text in what can be termed a vernacular-
lingua vulgaris. Analyses of the manuscript have shown that recorded morphological and phonological features are transient forms in the development of the
shtokavian dialect, while its syntax is pretty much archaic- especially when compared to the idiom of later prayer books (the Croatian prayer book from 1450s, also from Dubrovnik and held in the library of Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb), or the syntax of
Držić's dramas (early 1500s), which is essentially the same as the syntactical structure of modern standard
Croatian.
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