Too Good Is Bad: On a Forgotten Translation of the Book of Psalms From 1700

Magdalena Charzyńska-Wójcik

doi:10.18290/rh237106.2s

Data publikacji : 2023-07-24

Tom 71 Nr 6sp (2023)

Lepsze jest wrogiem znanego. O zapomnianym tłumaczeniu Księgi Psalmów z 1700 roku

Magdalena Charzyńska-Wójcik

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8789-8989

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rh237106.2s

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Niniejszy artykuł poświęcony jest angielskiemu przekładowi Księgi Psalmów dokonanemu przez Johna Carylla i Davida Nairne’a na dworze Jakuba II Stuarta na wygnaniu w Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Przekład, zatytułowany The Psalmes of David, translated from the Vulgat [Psalmy Dawida przełożone z Wulgaty], ukazał się po raz pierwszy drukiem w 1700 roku, zaś wydanie poprawione i uzupełnione opublikowano w roku 1704. Pomimo ważnego miejsca, jakie tłumaczenie to zajmuje w historii przekładów Psałterza z Wulgaty na język angielski, jest ono bardzo rzadko wzmiankowane w literaturze przedmiotu i nie powstało żadne naukowe opracowanie poświęcone tej pozycji. Artykuł przedstawia okoliczności powstania przekładu, analizuje jego warstwę językową i porównuje go z tekstami wobec niego konkurencyjnymi, bada jego recepcję, obieg i kontekst socjolingwistyczny. Celem analiz jest wyjaśnienie, dlaczego tekst przestał być drukowany oraz z czego wynika brak zainteresowania tym przekładem w literaturze fachowej poświęconej przekładom biblijnym. W artykule po raz pierwszy zaprezentowano również tekst Psalmu 1 z nowo odkrytej rękopiśmiennej wersji Psalmes zachowanej w SCA w Aberdeen w Szkocji.

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tłumaczenie, Psalmy, David Nairne, John Caryll, socjolingwistyka, dwór na wygnaniu, Stuartowie, Biblia Douay-Rheims

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Magdalena Charzyńska-Wójcik

magdalena.charzynska-wojcik@kul.pl
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8789-8989

Afiliacja:

Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II Polska

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Magdalena Charzyńska-Wójcik, PhD is Associate Professor at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (Poland), where she is Chair of the Department of the History of English and Translation Studies. As of 2022, she is also an affiliated scholar of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame (USA). She is a historian of the English language, with expertise in syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, and manuscript studies. Her major research interests lie in historical translations of the Psalter, with special focus on prose translations from Latin into Old, Middle and Early Modern English. She also deals with metrical translations of the Scottish Psalter. Apart from English-language translations, she works on renditions of the Psalter into Polish, and in particular on a 16th-century prose translation from Latin.