Preliminary communication
The Contribution of Baldo Melkov Glavić to the Compilation of Oral Poetry
Estela Banov
orcid.org/0000-0002-3480-6091
; Filozofski fakultet u Rijeci
Abstract
The paper presents the contents of manuscript and printed collections of oral poetry records of Baldo Melkov Glavić (1841-1910). He recorded folk songs between 1865 and 1885 on the islands of Mljet, Korčula and Šipan, as well as in Dubrovnik and the surrounding places. At the end of that period, he donated his manuscript collection to Croatian Matrix. The manuscript contains 709 texts recorded in 119 volumes and includes more than 100,000 recorded verses and today it is stored in the Archives of the Department of Ethnology of HAZU under the designation MH 179 a-i. Numerous researchers of oral poetry emphasized the value of this collection and stated that the aesthetic quality of the records and their cultural characteristics represent a valuable scientific resource and that this one deserves a complete publication. The printing of the first part of Baldo Glavić’s complete manuscript with information about the narrators and singers of the poems in the Manuscript Heritage Collection of Croatian Matrix in the 2022, is a valuable contribution to the scientific study of the oral poetry of the Dalmatian South from the time when numerous song texts were still in oral circulation.
Keywords
Archives of the Department of Ethnology HAZU; ballads; Baldo Melkov Glavić; Croatian Matrix; heroic poetry; manuscript records; oral poetry; Korčula; Šipan; Mljet; Dubrovnik
Hrčak ID:
314817
URI
Publication date:
1.12.2023.
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