Narodno biserje sjeverozapadne Bosne s početka 20. stoljeća (rukopisna zbirka Smajla Bradarića)
National Wealth of North-Western Bosnia at the Beginning of the 20th Century (Smajl Bradarić’s Manuscript Collection)

Summary/Abstract: The collection of lyric poetry by Smajil O. Bradaric, a religion teacher from Derventa, was received in the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the middle of the last century. The collection’s inventory and stock-take was performed at the end of 1955, and it represents, in its scope, one of the most precious artifacts from the treasury of the Ethnology Department of the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Smajil Bradaric brought about a thousand units organized in five volumes, among which the greatest number of units are lyric poems recorded in north and north-west of Bosnia in the first half of the 20th century. This paper will shed light on the process of Collection creation; it will attempt to answer the questions related to the basic motivation of the collector in the decade’s poem-gathering job and related to who provided him with the most significant support. The most significant parts of Bradaric’s Collection will be presented as well as its particularities as the scope of the area from which the national treasure was collected widens to other parts of the region where Bosniaks lived, including the area of Novopazarski sandzak at the beginning of the 20th century. The most conspicuous parts of the Collection will be depicted through the careful interpretation of the chosen poems; one will also observe the ‘artistic’ intervention of the poet noticed by Bradaric, but one will also learn the poems’ topics recorded in the area of north-western Bosnia. The paper also brings the reconstruction of Bradaric’s curriculum vitae based on the material from this paper’s author latest field research. The comparative, analytical and interpretative methods based on in-depth field interviews will be applied as well as the literary-theoretical analysis of certain texts found in Bradaric’s Manuscript Collection.

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