Exemplum Usurer and son in hell (Tubach 5027)

from the Oxford Miscellany (Ms. Can. lit. 414)

Abstract

This paper deals with the exempla about the usuer and son in hell (Tubach 5027) that is kept in the Croatian Glagolitic Oxford Miscellany (Ms. Can. lit. 414), in the four Glagolitic quaresimale manuscripts (Kolunić’s, Greblo’s, HAZU IIIa19, Quaresimale from Oport) and in the sermon collection Besjede written by Bosnian friar Matija Divković. Oxford Miscellay that is written in the area between Modruš and Senj in the 15th century, contains the shortest Croatian version of the above mentioned exemplum. In the paper the comparison between all three version of the exempla that appear in different contexts (in the manuscript miscellany, in
the sermones de tempore collection and in the sermones quaresimales collection) is conducted. Transliteration of the exemplum is here published for the first time.