ASPECTE INTERNE ALE PREFEłELOR SI EPILOGURILOR TIPĂRITURILOR ROMÂNESTI DIN SECOLUL AL XVI-LEA
INTERNAL ASPECTS OF PREFACES AND EPILOGUES IN ROMANIAN PRINTED TEXTS FROM SIXTEENTH CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: The inner structure of prefaces and epilogues of Romanian printed texts from sixteenth century is very similar to the inner structure of Slavonic-Romanian diplomatic documents, which suggests that the mode of expression in print, just like the expression in documents issued by various chancelleries, follows rules that took shape and stabilized in time. Some formulations used long before fifteenth century were still in use at the end of the sixteenth century. It should be added that the style of prefaces and epilogues varies depending on the author, his professional and intellectual background, characteristics reflected in the way they were conceived. One can notice that a certain structure is observed, a certain route is followed in rendering their content. Here one finds the initial protocol with the specific formulae, such as the verbal invocation, the intitulatio, the inscription, and arenga; the context with the type of intervention, the narration, disposition, sanction, and corroboration; the final protocol with the appreciation and the date. In the initial stage these texts, adjacent to religious texts, were quite succinctly written. In time the ideas developed. An improvement of the style becomes visible. Yet, their structure remains in general the same. Preference was give to following a certain topology, a certain scheme originating in the earliest documents written on the territory of the Romanian principalities. Some of the formulae employed were autochthonous creations while some others were taken from Byzantine, Old Church Slavonic, Latin or Hungarian diplomatic.

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