Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.31745/s.75.2
Čakavian-Štokavian characteristics of the excerpts of Hrabrić’s booklet of incantations
Gordana Čupković
orcid.org/0000-0001-8591-6357
; University of Zadar, Department of Croatian Studies, Zadar, Croatia
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Abstract
The main part of the Glagolitic booklet of various incantations against storms, which is kept in the Archive of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (manuscript VII 21), was written by Mate Hrabrić at the end of the 18th century, and it has already been recognized that in it the Baška cakavica intertwines with elements of the Croatian Church Slavonic literary language and with elements of the Štokavian literary language, due to which the ritual passages of the booklet are assumed to be the templates of the Roman ritual texts from the Štokavian texts (Štefanić 1969 refers to Kašić’s text). In this paper, the texts from the Glagolitic manuscript booklet are compared with corresponding passages from Kašić’s Roman Ritual (1640), with passages of incantations from Bandulavić’s Pištole i evanđelja (Epistels and Gospels, edition from 1699) and with passages of incantations published by Josip Banovac in his book Blagosov od polja (Blessing of the field, 1767). The comparison of the texts indicates to the processes of different adaptations of Štokavian language peculiarities in the Glagolitic text are visible, namely in distinctive phonological and grammatical categories such as suffixes of the l-participle of the masculine gender, jat reflexes, iotation, plural case suffixes, formative suffixes and certain syntactic phenomena. The observations confirm the unreliability of the literary text as a source in the reconstruction of the image of the organic idiom of the scribe, at the same time, following the directions of the spread of the texts, the outlines of the construction of a literary language extremely tolerant towards multidialectism are apparent.
Keywords
cursive Glagolitic; incantations; rites; Central Čakavian dialect; Western Štokavian dialect; Mate Hrabrić; Bartol Kašić; Josip Banovac; Ivan Bandulavić
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342132
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Publication date:
31.12.2025.
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