The ways of spelling of the biblical proper nouns on the basis of a German translation of the "Acts of the Apostles" of Luke the Evangelist from the 14th century

The article concerns an attempt on a graphematic analysis of the biblical proper nouns from the German translation of the Acts of the Apostles of Luke the Evangelist (14th century). In the foreground there is an interpretation of the sound value of the vocalic and consonantal graphemes in the Middle High German system according to K. Lachmann. The results of the analysis are: the consonantal graphemes, which are sometimes characterized by a high variety, do not inconvenience the recipient of the text, but the graphic equivalents of the vowels are more difficult because of the lack of the conventional text signals about their pronunciation. The next reason that we cannot be sure about their articulation is the fact, that we do not know the grade of the assimilation of the borrowed words in the German language from the past. Furthermore we should pay an attention to the fact, that in the translation we can come across the inconsequence in the spelling of some words, which can be caused by an influence of the foreign language or a multidialectalism of the vocabulary in this translation