Metodološke pretpostavke paleografskog opisa hrvatske liturgijske glagoljice XIV. i XV. stoljeća
Methodological assumptions of the palaeographic description of the Croatian liturgical Glagolitic alphabet of the 14th and 15th centuries

Summary/Abstract: The fourteenth and fifteenth century are often referred to as ‘the golden age’ of Croatian Glagolitism, due to rich, highly reputable and functionally diverse written production, developed in stable material conditions under the influence of the contact Latin minuscule writing. The defined palaeographic description of the dynamic creation of liturgical minuscule in the thirteenth century demanded further methodological advance: following the adaptation of older majuscule lettering form to the four-lined (minuscule) practice and the formation of a lettering model typical for the angular Glagolitic script – a rectangle divided into six equal parts ( ) – the script dynamics (reduced as it may have been) moved to other, more irrelevant and less visible areas. Therefore, it will be interesting to observe the adherence to the inherited lettering model of that time, possible changes in the lettering inventory, and the extent of the Latin writing influence as well as the presence of peculiarities characteristic for the restricted time period or certain regions (scriptoria and even notaries). Our attention will be predominantly directed towards The first Beram (Ljubljana) breviary, copied for the Beram church in mid-Istria on the end of the 14th century. The extensive five-year long research will be done within the project by The Scientific Centre of Excellence for Croatian Glagolitism. We will use that opportunity to present a detailed strategy of palaeographic approach to a monument from the so-called ‘stable times’, when the premises for defining the final solutions in Glagolitic print were established (since the 1483 editio princeps ). In the period that followed, we can only trace the typographic changes in liturgical books (‘angular Glagolitic script’ area). From the sixteenth century onwards, the handwriting creativity of our Glagolites was reduced to the texts of more liberal graphic practice - written in Glagolitic semi-angular script or cursive script.

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