Editing Old Prussian language (section)

===Complete texts===
In addition to the texts listed beneath, there are several colophons written by Prussian scriptors who worked in Prague and in the court of Lithuanian duke [[Butautas|Butautas Kęstutaitis]].

====Basel Epigram====
The so-called Basel Epigram is the oldest written Prussian sentence (1369).{{r|Klussis|pages=33{{Hyphen}}35}}<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.schaeken.nl/lu/research/online/editions/baselepigram/| title = The Old Prussian Basel Epigram|first=Jos|last=Schaeken |year=2003}}</ref> It reads: {{Verse translation |lang=prg
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Kayle rekyse
thoneaw labonache thewelyse
Eg koyte poyte
nykoyte pênega doyte
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Cheers, Sir!
You are no longer a good little comrade
if you want to drink
(but) do not want to give a penny!
}}
This jocular inscription was most probably made by a Prussian student studying in [[Prague]] ([[Charles University in Prague|Charles University]]); found by Stephen McCluskey (1974) in manuscript MS F.V.2 (book of physics ''{{lang|la|Questiones super Meteororum}}'' by [[Nicholas Oresme]]), fol. 63r, stored in the [[Basel University]] library.

====Catechisms====
The longest texts preserved in Old Prussian are three Catechisms printed in {{lang|de|[[Königsberg]]|italic=no}} in 1545, 1545, and 1561 respectively. The first two consist of only six pages of text in Old Prussian – the second one being a correction of the first. The third catechism, or ''Enchiridion'', consists of 132 pages of text, and is a translation of [[Luther's Small Catechism]] by a German cleric called Abel Will, with his Prussian assistant Paul Megott. Will himself knew little or no Old Prussian, and his Prussian interpreter was probably illiterate, but according to Will spoke Old Prussian quite well. The text itself is mainly a word-for-word translation, and Will phonetically recorded Megott's oral translation. Because of this, the ''Enchiridion'' exhibits many irregularities, such as the lack of case agreement in phrases involving an [[article (linguistics)|article]] and a [[noun]], which followed word-for-word German originals as opposed to native Old Prussian syntax.{{r|Trautmann1910|page=XXVII}}{{r|Klussis|pages=8{{Hyphen}}9}}

====Trace of Crete====
The "Trace of Crete" is a short poem added by a Baltic writer in [[Chania]] to a manuscript of the '' Logica Parva'' by [[Paul of Venice]].<ref>{{unbulleted list citebundle|{{cite journal |last1=Kessler |first1=Stephan |last2=Mossman |first2=Stephen |year=2013 |title=Ein Fund aus dem Jahre 1440: Ein bisher unbekannter Text in einer baltischen Sprache |journal=Archivum Lithuanicum |volume=15 |pages=511–534 |url=https://www.academia.edu/8450574|language=de|trans-title=Find from the year 1440: A hitherto unknown text in a Baltic language}}
|{{cite journal |last1=Lemeshkin |first1=Ilja |title=Lituanica aliter |url=https://www.academia.edu/41917389 |journal=Billēmai Bhe Ersinnimai |date=January 2019 |access-date=12 November 2020}}}}</ref>
{{Verse translation |lang=prg
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Atonaige maian meilan am ne wede maianwargan
Thaure ne ſtonais po pieſ pievſſenabdolenai galei ragai
Stonais po leipen zaidiant acha peda bete medde
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Stand under the May tree willingly/dear – the May tree does not bring you to misery
Aurochs, do not stand under the pine tree – horns bring death,
Stand under the blooming linden tree – the bee brings honey here.
}}