ユトレヒト大学図書館蔵『さるばとるむんぢ』の表記

Abstract

This paper examines the characteristics of the Writing system by comparing the Utrecht version of “Salvator Mvndi” with other early Japanese versions of “Doctrina Christam” and “Bauchizumono Sazukeyo,” focusing on the usage of kana and the kanazukai. The summary is as follows. First, the kana characters used in “Salvator Mvndi” are almost identical to those in “Doctrina Christam" and “Bauchizumono Sazukeyo.” When comparing the usage of kana in “Salvator Mvndi” with the other two texts, many aspects show similarities among the three documents. However, ≪波≫, ≪美≫, ≪毛b≫, which are distinguished by location, and ≪可≫ ≪加≫, ≪八≫ ≪者≫ ≪波≫, which are used exclusively as particles, and ≪波≫, which is used differently depending on the sound, show different tendencies in the three documents. If we compare the Writing system of the Utrecht version of “Salvator Mvndi” from the perspective of Kanazukai with the early Japanese versions of “Doctrina Christam” and “Bauchizumono Sazukeyo,” we can see that the Writing system of the three documents are almost the same. However, “Bauchizumono Sazukeyo,” which is a first part [オ] sound and Rekisiteki Kanazukai <お> <を>, shows an exceptional tendency to be unified with the notation “お”. From the above results, it can be seen that the Utrecht version of “Salvator Mvndi” uses almost the same kana as the early Japanese versions of “Doctrina Christam” and “Bauchizumono Sazukeyo,” and it seems that the documents were written with the same Writing system in terms of the kana’s usage and kanazukai. Nevertheless, it is considered that the differences in kana usage and kanazukai found in the three documents can be attributed to the differences in the writing periods or the authors of each document.