Koncepcijske smjernice pri izradi fonta za hrvatsku ćirilicu po uzoru na Divkovićev tisak
Conceptual Guidelines for the Creation of a Font for Bosnian/Croatian Cyrillic Script on the Basis of Divković’s Printed Works

Author(s): Nenad Hančić-Matejić, Mateo Žagar
Subject(s): Cultural history, Croatian Literature, South Slavic Languages
Published by: Franjevačka teologija Sarajevo
Keywords: Bosnian/Croatian Cyrillic Script; Matija Divković; Tradition; Literature in Cyrillic;
Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on the the concept behind and dilemmas (palaeographical and typographical) faced by the author, Nenad Hančić-Matejić, in creating a font (named ‘Arvatica. Fra Divković’) on the basis of the graphemes in Matija Divković’s printed editions for Bosnian/Croatian Cyrillic script.The main purpose for creating a font for the Bosn ian/Croatian minuscule variant of the Cyrillic script was to provide a standard font for transmitting original texts and to be able to write contemporary Croatian texts in this script. Cyrillic prints, in particular from this minuscule tradition – which Matija Divković had developed in full, mostly on the model of writing from books from Dubrovnik – were selected for the creation of this computer font. At the same time, the long Bosnian and Herzegovinan tradition of writing with this Slavonic script was taken into account. The creation of this font is of high importance for analyzing literature in Cyrillic within the framework Croatian literary history.

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