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https://doi.org/10.58173/kz.77.7
Summary: The library in the Monastery of St. Mary at Glavotok, island of Krk (With appendix: Inventory of the Archive of the Monastery of St. Mary at Glavotok)
Joso Živković
; Samostan sv. Franje Asiškoga, Krk, Hrvatska
Sažetak
Every monastery of the Province has its own larger or smaller, more or less valuable library, and all of these libraries emerged from the monastery’s practical need: as an aid to preachers, for contemplation, for spiritual reading material, etc. The activities of the friars inside and outside the monastery essentially marked the way in which materials were gathered, the basic description of its inventory and contents. The bequests of deceased friars became the monastery’s property, so that the books that they owned remained in the monastic library, while the monastery also procured a certain amount of literature, mainly spiritual and theological. The Monastery of St. Mary at Glavotok was at one point in history an educational institution, and to perform these activities it had to procure the necessary literature for teachers and educators and for the students and pupils. Most of the books are religious or theological (the Bible and biblical theology, dogmatic, moral and pastoral theology, spirituality, ecclesiastical history, ecclesiastical law, art, music, etc.). However, materials covering the humanities and social science, linguistics, literature, history (especially Croatian) and general and technical encyclopaedias, lexicons, manuals and so forth are also not lacking. The library of the Glavotok monastery has been reorganized on several occasions, and always in a different fashion. The monastery has been renovated and expanded three times over the past roughly one hundred years, so the library had to be moved, and during these moves the books easily became disorganized. The monastery’s archive has four book inventory catalogues with two signatures. The first inventory catalogue, or Catalogo, as it is called, dates to 1855, and it was compiled by Fr. Jacinto (Carevko) Buić. The second inventory catalogue is from 1872, and the “youngest” book recorded in it was published in 1872. The third book inventory was compiled during the tenure of Fr. Lovro Hržić as guardian (1931-1935). The books were registered by Fr. Hržić (a smaller portion) and Fr. Ljudevit Gregov, then the seminarian (most of them). The fourth book inventory was conducted in 1948, and the catalogue was compiled by Fr. Ignacije Radić. The final book inventory catalogue in two volumes was compiled by Fr. Nikola Gregov in 1978-1979 with a third designation on the books. Even though the library had been organized before, Fr. Nikola nonetheless had to begin from the beginning, since he applied the universal decimal classification (UDC) to its organisation. In the 1990s, the library – for who knows which time – was again moved to new premises (the books in the room next to the “Frankapan tower” and the periodicals on the same floor in the room adjacent to the church) due to the construction of a new wing of the monastery and the renovation of a part of its older section. At that time the Interim Book Inventory Catalogue from 1977 was compiled in which newly-arrived books were registered. And finally, the last move of the books occurred in 2014 due to the remodelling of the premises for old book materials which were in the meantime cleaned by “dry conservation” and made ready for their new space. According to the last book inventory catalogue from 1978-1979, the library had catalogued 3,913 titles with 5,020 volumes and 334 titles with 466 volumes in the interim inventory. The library therefore has 4,247 titles with 5,486 volumes. If the periodicals are also counted, then the library has 4,388 titles with 6,410 volumes. The book collection mostly grew to the present through the purchase of new books and periodicals. The library does not have any incunables, but the monastery as an owner nonetheless has two incunables that are stored in the Provincial Archives in Zagreb: Misal po zakonu rimskoga dvora [Roman Missal] (1483) and Spovid općena [General Confession] (Senj, 1496); and two old and rare books: Naručnik plebanušev [Handbook for Curates] (Senj, 1507) and Korizmenjak [Lenten Sermons] (Senj, 1508), which are also held in the Provincial Archives. I particularly note three groups of books held in the library: 1) books from the 16th century (14 titles); 2) Glagolitic books (a number of copies of both the missals of Levaković, Paštrić, Karaman and Parčić and the breviaries of Levaković, Paštrić and Gocić); 3) “older” Croatian books, i.e., individual books in the Latin language published by Croatian authors (85 titles, the oldest being Nauch charstianski [Christian Doctrine] by Aleksandar Komulović, Rome, 1582). Most books from the old materials inventory were printed in Venice, and until the fall of Venice in 1797 not one book was printed in so-called Venetian Dalmatia and Istria, because Venice did not allow any printing presses in these territories. Besides Venice – or, as it was called by our ancestors, Mletci, Bneci, etc. – books were also printed in Jakin (Ancona), Loreto, Rome, Bologna, Trnava (Slovakia), Zagreb, Budapest, Vienna, Graz, Udine, Dubrovnik and Rijeka, while after Venice’s fall, in Zadar and Split as well. Most of the books are written in Old Church Slavonic and Croatian, followed by books in Latin, Italian, German, French and a smaller number in English and other languages. The primary script is Latin, although Gothic and Glagolitic are present. The monastery’s library had its ups and downs together with the friars, with their spirituality and activities.
Ključne riječi
Library and Archives of the Monastery of St. Mary at Glavotok (island of Krk); Inventories and Catalogues; Incunables: Prvotisak and Spovid općena; Glagolitic heritage: missals and breviaries; Glagolitic written documents; Rev. Nikola Gregov, Provincial librarian
Hrčak ID:
322638
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Datum izdavanja:
22.11.2024.
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