2024 # 6 (68)
Walter Z.V.
Sources of the Chapter “O liczbie a wywodzie Sybil” of M. Bielski’s Chronicle “Kronika to jest historia świata”
Abstract
This article deals with the question of the sources of the chapter “O liczbie a wywodzie Sybil” of M. Bielski’s chronicle, which has not yet been fully resolved. In the course of the research, we managed to identify some of them: Lactantius “Divinae institutiones”, F. Barbieri “Sibyllarum de Christo vaticinia, ex vetustiss, codice descripta”, St. Augustine “De civitate Dei”, chapter “De vita beata”. We have also made a comparative analysis of two Church Slavonic translations of this chapter, belonging to N. Spafarius and an unknown author, which also reveal continuity; most likely, N. Spafarius took the Polish text as the basis of his work, despite the fact that he did not mention it anywhere in the text.
Key words
Source study, history of Russian literary language, “Kronika to jest historia świata”