Original scientific paper

Ragusan Manuscript Studies in the Eighteenth Century: The Letters of Ivan Marija Matijašević (1714-1791) and Miho Rastić (1716-1768)

Ivan Lupić orcid.org/0000-0002-4208-6362 ; Stanford University
Irena Bratičević orcid.org/0000-0002-3098-4165 ; Filozofski Fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu

Abstract

This essay discusses and publishes in their entirety several hitherto unknown letters exchanged between Ivan Marija Matijašević (1714-1791) and Miho Rastić (1716-1768), two enthusiastic admirers and tireless collectors of Ragusan literatu¬re. Since the letters almost exclusively concern Ragusan manuscripts, they serve here as the basis for a discussion of the state of Ragusan manuscript studies in the eighteenth century as well as of our current knowledge of the Ragusan manuscript tradition. The special interest of the letters is the fact that they are partly written in Croatian, which makes them stand out as extremely rare witnesses of local verna¬cular conversations focused on Ragusan manuscripts before the nineteenth century.

Keywords

Dubrovnik (Ragusa); manuscript studies; history of the Croatian language; letters; Ivan Marija Matijašević; Miho Rastić

Hrčak ID:

245883

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/245883

Publication date:

9.11.2020.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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