360 PRINCE— RARE OLD SLAVONIC RELIGIOUS MANUAL. 



The following system of notation has been adopted. The con- 

 sonants and vowels are to be pronounced as in Italian, except in the 

 case of a = Roumanian a, i^ heavy u, as in Turkish kyz, "girl"; 

 c^=^ts; c = Eng. ch; c/z = Germ. guttural ch; e^=^ye; e^=e in 

 "met"; ■ia = ya; ie = ye; /_, as in dlgi, "debts," is pronounced with 

 the inherent vowel of the I, as occurs often in Czech ; r, as in 

 mrtvich:, is pronounced with the inherent vowel of the r^ similar to 

 the vowel of the /; s = sh; st is one letter, formerly pronounced sht, 

 as indeed is still the case in Bulgarian. In Russian, this combina- 

 tion =i'/!c/!, all in one sound, a later modification of the primitive 

 pronunciation. In the Glagolitic text, y is an indeterminate symbol 

 used indifferently for e, ie, ia, e and in some Glagolitic texts even 

 for i; c^zh (French ;'). The signs : and ' represent respectively 

 the Russian hard sign, originally an indeterminate vowel, probably li, 

 and the Russian soft sign, at first an i, which later developed into a 

 mere palatalizing of the preceding consonant, as nas' =nashy. The 

 hard sign : is not always used in the Morgan text and the soft sign ' 

 does not appear at all. 



In addition to the material treated in this paper the ^Morgan text 

 contains some selections from the Psalter — the version of Ps. CX is 

 especially interesting — the Magnificat, the symbols of the Apostles 

 and a few prayers. I intend to publish later a complete redaction 

 of all this material which is particularly valuable for the study of 

 the Croatian variant of the Old Slavonic. 



MOLITVA NeDILNA. 



Weekly Prayer. 



M. oce nas: iae na nchysich: \ sveti-se 



Z. ot'cc (oce) nas' ize {i)esi na ncbesecli: \ da sz'atit: sa 

 Cr. oce nas koji si na nebesima | da se sveti 



Father Our who art in heavens ; be sanctified 



M. hue tz'oe \ pridi cesarastvo tvoe \ budi vola tvoy 



Z. iiiia tz'oe \ dapHdct cesar'stvie tvoe \ da badct vole (z'olia) tvoe 

 Cr. inictvojc\ da dodje carstvo tvoje\ da bud e volja tvoja 



name thy ; let come kingdom thy ; let be will thy 



M. yko na nybesichi na zemli \Chleb: nas: vsagdanni 



