Iz antroponimije Dečanskog pomenika (XVI vek)

Abstract

This paper displays main structural and semantic features of the system of secular personal names inscribed into the Commemorative Book in the Visoki Dečani monastery towards the end of the sixteenth century by Dimitrije Daskal, the chief and first scribe of the Book, also known as the scrivener and illuminator of the three Serbian gospels from the second half of the sixteenth century. The results of the research imply that the system of secular personal names in the manuscript does not generally deviate much from the condition observed in other known commemorative books from the sixteenth century (the Commemorative Book of an unknown monastery in the Ljipljan Bishopric and the Vodičnik Commemorative Book). The manuscript of the Commemorative Book in Dečani is special because it provides confirmation of several secular personal names which have not been recorded yet in Serbian medieval sources: Akepsim, Kaspak, Lovka, Monomah, Monoahin, Stas, Tisovac (male names), Jolja, Trejka (female names). Furthermore, it provides new confirmations of several personal names which have only been known based on a handful of mentions: Večerin, Večko, Muzak (male names), Madona (female names). These results infer the necessity of further philological and linguistic study of manuscripts, especially of recorded geographical names, as well as personal names in manuscripts created after the sixteenth century.