RRETH NJË TRADITE TË HERSHME STUDIMESH FILOLOGJIKE: RASTIIVIKTOR VOLAJT
ABOUT AN EARLIER TRADITION OF PHILOLOGICAL STUDIES: THE CASE OF VIKTOR VOLAJ

Summary/Abstract: The philology term, in epistemological level, is understood as the science of the text, in this study. Albanian philological studies, including even the magazine Philological Studies, which took an organized form mainly in the second half of the twentieth century, have an earlier tradition of textual criticism, text philology, as the knowledge that aims to protect the author’s text and in the case of deviation from him to resubmit it in the will of the author. This tradition is marked with names such as: Giuseppe Schiro who wrote and prepared the first edition of the integral text of the Missal by John Buzuku\ Justin Rrota, from whom the researcher were also able to get acquainted with the manuscript copy of the first Albanian book; Namik Ressuli, who conducted the first adaptation of Milosaos Songs in the today Albanian language and without doubt At Viktor Volaj, who took care of the first and the last of the critical edition of the work Mrizi i Zanavet by Gjergj Fishta. Volaj had begun work even for a critical-philological edition of the epic poem Lahuta e Malcis, but the long period of the prohibition to Fishta's books for political reasons prevented this project. With a multilateral activity, as it was in the tradition of Franciscan priests, whom, following the tradition of the Renaissance, they worked in several areas simultaneously, becoming known as omnigraph, Volaj has contributions of primary order in the field of toponomastics and onomastics, dialectology, lexicology, ethnology, history and religion. These contributions even today are preserved in manuscript in the archives of the Franciscan Order. There is made a previous presentation of them in this study. As a philologist Volaj is an inseparable name from Fishta's name. He belongs to a stabilization merit of orthographic internal order for the book Mrizi i Zanavet with recommending value to publish all the works of Fishta.

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