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the following peculiarities : AI. uas:=^Z.nas'^ with soft sign, probably 

 the original form; nebysich: interchanging with nyhesich, illustrating 

 the indeterminate character of the Glagolitic y; M. si'eti-se ^=Cr. se 

 svcti with omission of 3 p. — f, seen in Z. svafit: sd; yi. pridi — bitdi, 

 imperatives, instead of cohortative da in the other versions ; here M. 

 seems more archaic than Z. ; tvoy; y =^ia; yko; y = c or ia, as ykoze; 

 in nyhesich, 3' is clearly e, as in chJcb; daiias "to-day" is modern 

 Croat from Old Slavonic d'n'-\-s'; cf. Czech dues, "to-day"; 

 note the form in M., vsagdanni "daily"; otpusstamo, with pure 

 Croatian ending of i p. pi. — aino=Z. ostav-l-eem; d I anik:=^ modern 

 Cr. dnznik with loss of I, as is characteristic in the modern idiom. 



The following differences of translation should also be noted : Cr. 

 potrcbni does not mean " daily," but " necessary " ; the Russian Sla- 

 vonic form nasiistnoi also means "actual; needful." Observe the 

 change in modern Cr. from the vowelless preposition v into 11, in u 

 napast " into temptation." 



The forms in parentheses represent the variants of the Russian 

 Church Slavonic from the text of the Codex Zographensis. 



Ave Maria. 



Note that takoc, " also," appears in modern Croatian as takod- 

 je{r). The ordinary western version of the Ave Maria ends : " pray 

 for us sinners now and in the hour of death," whereas the M. ver- 

 sion has "pray for us sinners and for our dead (ones)," a most 

 unusual variant in a Catholic work! 



The Russian Old Slavonic version is as follows: "O Virgin 

 Mother of God, Hail. Blessed Mary, the Lord is with thee. Blessed 

 art thou among women and Blessed is the fruit of thy womb, whom 

 Thou hast borne as a Salvation for our souls." I can find no trace 

 of either this or the Croatian version of M. in any Catholic work. 

 It is significant, however, that in the many Orthodox hymns to the 

 Virgin, she is regarded as the special patron of the faithful departed, 

 which probably accounts for the M. variant laying stress on this 

 particular aspect. 



