Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.17234/Croatica.65.5
GRAPHY OF SCRIBAL HANDS IN “LIBRO OD MNOZIJEH RAZLOGA”
Kristian Paskojević
orcid.org/0000-0001-7953-0511
; Old Church Slavonic Institute, Zagreb
Abstract
“Libro od mnozijeh razloga”, the manuscript book written in Dubrovnik in 1520, is characterized by its varied content and choice of topics (parts of the gospels, instructive legends, prayers, parts of horoscopes and dream books). It consists of five parts subsequently connected into one, and individual parts were written by different scribes. Milan Rešetar, whose paleographic research served as the starting point of the article, mentions three main scribes’ hands and a fourth that mostly added titles written in red ink. Along with them, two younger hands appear, filling in the blank space at the end of individual parts of the manuscript. The main task of this paleographic research is to analyze the graphics of these scribes and compare letter forms in order to identify differences and similarities between them, with an emphasis on their morphology. The term graphy is broader than graphomorphology and it mostly focuses on the way of recording phonemes with letters or graphemes, i. e. the system of letters by which the phonemes of a particular language are written.
Keywords
Middle Ages; Dubrovnik; Slavic Cyrillic paleography; graphy; graphetik
Hrčak ID:
272534
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Publication date:
18.2.2022.
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