Funeral Sermon and Prayer

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Funeral Sermon and Prayer is the oldest surviving continuous text in Hungarian, notable as a key monument of early Hungarian literature and language.


Statements (48)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Hungarian literary work
linguistic monument
medieval manuscript
prayer
religious text
sermon
approximateDate around 1192–1195
late 12th century
associatedWith Pray Codex illustrations
authorship anonymous
containedIn Pray Codex
countryOfOrigin Kingdom of Hungary
culturalHeritageStatus national literary monument of Hungary
genre Christian religious prose
hasSignificance historical linguistics of Hungarian
history of Hungarian literature
study of Uralic languages
influenced later Hungarian religious prose
language Hungarian
length approximately 260 words
locatedIn Budapest
location National Széchényi Library
manuscriptMedium parchment
notableFor early example of Hungarian prose
key monument of early Hungarian language
key monument of early Hungarian literature
oldest surviving continuous text in Hungarian
originalAudience Hungarian-speaking faithful
originalUse liturgical use by clergy
purpose funeral liturgy
prayer for the dead
preaching
religion Christianity
religiousTradition Roman Catholicism
script Latin script
structure prayer section
sermon section
studiedInDiscipline medieval studies
philology
theology
textType prose
topic Christian salvation
death
human sinfulness
intercession for the deceased
resurrection
translationOf Latin funeral sermon tradition
writingSystem Carolingian minuscule-based script

Referenced by (1)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Hungarian language
hasNotableEarlyText

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