Editing Freising manuscripts (section)

==Description and origin==
The manuscripts were found bound into a Latin [[codex]] (manuscript book).<ref name="Jugoslovenski književni leksikon">{{cite book |author= Đorđe Sp. Radojičić |editor = Živan Milisavac |date=1971 |title=Jugoslovenski književni leksikon |trans-title=Yugoslav Literary Lexicon |publisher=[[Matica srpska]] |language=sh |location= [[Novi Sad]] ([[Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina|SAP Vojvodina]], [[Socialist Republic of Serbia|SR Serbia]]) |page=126 }}</ref> Four [[parchment]] leaves and a further quarter of a page have been preserved (i.e., folia 78, 158, 159, 160, and 161, comprising nine pages altogether). They consist of three texts in the oldest [[Slovene dialects|Slovene dialect]]. Linguistic, stylistic and contextual analyses reveal that these are church texts of careful composition and literary form.

The precise date of the origin of the Freising manuscripts cannot be exactly determined; the original text was probably written in the 9th century. In this [[liturgy|liturgic]] and [[homily|homiletic]] manuscript, three Slovene records were found and this miscellany was probably an episcopal manual (pontificals). The Freising manuscripts in it were created between 972 and 1039, most likely before 1000.<ref>[https://www.didaktum.si/facts-about-the-slovenian-language/ Didaktum Language Institute website, ''Facts about the Slovenian Language'']</ref> The main support for this dating is the writing, which was used in the centuries after [[Charlemagne]] and is named [[Carolingian minuscule]].

During the time of the writing of the two manuscripts (sermons on sin and repentance, a confessional form), [[Abraham of Freising|Bishop Abraham]] was active (from 957 to 994) in Freising. It is believed that the manuscripts were written in the [[Möll]] Valley in [[Carinthia (duchy)|Carinthia]]. For this reason some linguists (e.g. [[Jernej Kopitar]] and [[Rajko Nahtigal]]) linked Abraham closely to the origin of the Freising manuscripts and even attributed to him the authorship of one of the texts and suspected that he was of Slovene origin, although this was later disproven.<ref>{{cite book |url=http://nl.ijs.si/e-zrc/bs/html/bsBK.html |title=Brižinski spomeniki: Monumenta Frisingiensia: elektronska znanstvenokritična izdaja |language=sl |trans-title=The Freising Manuscripts: Monumenta Frisingiensa: The Electronic Scientifically Critical Edition |editor-first=Matija |editor-last=Ogrin |publisher=Institute of the Slovene Literature and the Slovene language, Scientific Research Centre, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts |date=6 April 2007 |isbn=978-961-6568-33-3 |chapter=Oris raziskav |trans-chapter=Outline of Research |first=Igor |last=Grdina |at=§309}}</ref>