Русская Библия Франциска Скорины и чешская среда

Francysk Skaryna published in Prague in the years 1517–1519 a total of 23 books of his Russian Bible, each with its own preface and afterword. The language of the Bible should have been the contemporary living language that would be understood by ordinary people. The Czech environment certainly influenced on Skaryna’s Bible by its printing options of the Old Town of Prague, and especially by Venetian Czech Bible from 1506, which inspired Skaryna’s way of editing the layout and the content of his Russian Bible and from which are properly adapted some passages in his translation. The influence of the Czech language environment is also reflected in Skaryna´s prefaces and afterwords. Based on the analysis of prefaces and afterwords to the whole Bible and to the five books of Moses, which came out in 1519, we will try to show that some Czech borrowings were in Skaryna´s original texts used for stylistic reasons.