Borderers’ Cyrillic letters from Archive  of the National library of Russia  in Saint Petersburg Cover Image

Krajišnička pisma Arhiva Ruske nacionalne biblioteke u Sankt-Peterburgu
Borderers’ Cyrillic letters from Archive of the National library of Russia in Saint Petersburg

Author(s): Mehmed Kardaš, Enisa Bajraktarević
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Historical Linguistics, Bosnian Literature, South Slavic Languages
Published by: Bosansko filološko društvo
Keywords: Archive of the National Library of Russia in Saint Petersburg; borderers’ Cyrillic letter; old script “bosančica”; orthography; language;

Summary/Abstract: The work analyzes the borderers’ Cyrillic letters from the Berčić Collection that are stored in the Archive of the National Library of Russia in Saint Petersburg. Besides the letters that have been recently published by S. O. Vjalova (2014), the work analyzes and transliterates two more unpublished letters: the letter of Ahmet-beg Jusufbegović (ОР РНБ, Берч. 66), captain of the Bihać province, addressed to the governor of Skradin, and the letter of Mahmut-beg Salihpašić (ОР РНБ, Берч. 62), captain and commander of the Ostrvice province, addressed to serdar Paosavljević, commander of the Šibenik province. The work also comments on the most important paleographical, orthographic and linguistic specificities of these letters.

  • Issue Year: 4/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 260-270
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Bosnian