THE COMMENT IN FRAŠČIĆ’S PSALTER IN COMPARISON WITH MACEDONIAN TEXTS

Comparing the comment in Fraščić’s psalter to the comment in Pogodin’s, as well as to that in the psalter of Bologne, the author chooses to follow some morphological differences which represent the typical characteristics of a particular text and their reflection in Fraščić’s psalter. A comparative analysis discovers a close connection of Fraščić’s commentary to the common ancient model of the three texts, but not to either Macedonian text. The comparison does not only point to an ancient origin of the text, but it also reveals the presence of archaic changes which used to occur in the early redaction of texts in the Ohrid School, and which, to a certain degree, also entered Fraščić’s psalter. The later, particular development of the text, helped the preservation of those archaic characteristics, thus rendering the text valuable for the research of the most ancient period in the development of literacy in the Ohrid school