Professional paper
Is anonymous publication the equivalent of unknown authorship – example : The Pobožne molitve prayer book, 1678
Anka Ivanjek
Abstract
Although anonymous publications are normally catalogued according to the rules laid down in librarians’ manuals as well as established practice, occasionally a work we come across requires a different approach. Such an example is the Pobožne molitve (Book of Devotional Prayer), written by a woman in the Croatian kajkavian dialect and published anonymously in Vienna in 1678. Reflecting the predicament of a person situated between death and God, this work raises numerous questions regarding its purpose and authorship. The absence of any clues as to the work’s provenance necessitates a close analysis of other kajkavian prayer books and similar works; from the historical background to the activities of the pious fraternities; the surviving fragments of the devotional life of women’s orders in the seventeenth-century Zagreb; and the written archive of Judita Petronila Zrinski, a member of the female order of St Clare of Assisi, also known as the Poor Clares.
Keywords
prayers; anonymuos publications; authorship; Poor Clares; Judita Petronila Zrinski
Hrčak ID:
83020
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Publication date:
2.4.2010.
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