Original scientific paper
The enigma of the Ludbreg Book of songs from 1833 (from early Kajkavian literature)
Ivan Zvonar
; Varaždin, Croatia
Abstract
The Ludbreg Book of Songs is a manuscript collection of lyrics (without musical notation) that was completed in around 1833. The majority of the manuscript contains excerpts of old manuscript collections or simple writings about poems and songs for various occasions. They are predominantly Kajkavian, though there are also Stokavian, Hungarian, German, Latin and Slovenian records. In addition to the excerpts, there are also a large number of longer or shorter songs. The majority of the records are again composed of Kajkavian texts, though they include Stokavian, Hungarian and German songs, and one is entitled Kranyzka. The fundamental characteristic of this part of the manuscript is that the cited examples from the written and oral literature are so intertwined that only a careful and detailed analysis could separate one from the other. The oral literature Kajkavian tests are spatially limited to a relatively small area in Podravina, east of Ludbreg, and in central and lower Medjimurje east of Prelog. The authors of the texts are not tied to a specific area, and virtually all are included in the corps of Kajkavian secular poetry of the 18th and early 19th century. It is possible that the compiler and writer of the collection was Štefan Belovar of Donja Dubrava, who for a time also served as a school teacher in Kuzminec.
Keywords
Ludbreg Book of songs; early Kajkavian literature
Hrčak ID:
148957
URI
Publication date:
1.6.2015.
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