POVIJESNO-KOMPARATIVNA ANALIZA BIOGRAFSKIH PODATAKA I FILOLOŠKA ANALIZA KRČELIĆEVA PRVOG KNJIŽEVNOPOVIJESNOG UDŽBENIKA IZ KONTNENTALNE HRVATSKE (1774.)
HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE BIOGRAPHICAL DATA AND THE PHILOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF KRČELIĆ’S FIRST LITERARY AND HISTORICAL TEXTBOOK FROM THE CONTINENTAL REGIONS OF CROATIA (1774)

Summary/Abstract: After the introductory sections, which provide an insight into Krčelić’s origin, education, literary works and the historical context of his work, this paper examines the work printed in Latin under the title Scriptorum ex regno Sclavoniae a seculo XIV. usque ad XVII. inclusive collectio and the related Latin manuscript under the title Slavoniae in veteri quondam Panoniae Savia sitae scriptorum, cum notitia praeliminari a s. Augustino Gazotti Ecclesiae Zagrabiensis episcopo incaminata saeculo 14 series. The aim of this paper is to date the autograph and attempt to determine the template from which the later transcript, the only one preserved to this day, was created. Therefore, any discrepancies at the level of the text’s content will be investigated, as well as the differences in the orthographic, lexical and syntactic rules of the standard Latin language. The second aim is to determine any potential differences between the biographical data about the writers provided by Krčelić and the information we have about these writers today — two hundred and fifty years later — so that conclusions can be drawn about the quality of Krčelić’s work, which was strongly challenged in the early twentieth century. The autograph was dated by reviewing the available literature and Krčelić’s written correspondence. A comparison of the printed edition and the manuscript revealed no differences in content (biographical or bibliographical) nor in lexical or syntactic aspects, only orthographic and typographic differences. Furthermore, it was found that Krčelić’s data related to the biographies of Croatian continental writers is incomplete, and the information provided mostly corresponds with the data available to us today. It was also confirmed that Krčelić’s bibliographical data is generally very sparse, and it does not include all the significant authors. Nevertheless, important works are mentioned, while lesser-known or thematically less significant ones are omitted.

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