The web portal "Register of Early Modern Slovenian Manuscripts" (NRSS) presents the results of a inquiery in Slovenian manuscripts from the Baroque and Enlightenment periods, and was launched in 2011. The on-line Register of early modern manuscripts in open access comprises manuscript descriptions of some 100+ manuscripts, researched so far. Recently, the repository was significantly improved by better search facilities and especially by construction of the new module, containing the diplomatic transcriptions of selected manuscripts, where each ms. page is coupled to the related part of transcription. The repository, based on Fedora Commons and published at (http://ezb.ijs.si/nrss/) enables browsing the mss. descriptions and associated facsimiles, as well as complex searches over structured data, including some full-texts, as well as taxonomies of text types and social contexts in which the manuscripts were written. Even as work in progress, the repository demonstrates the variety and longevity of manuscript culture in early modern period and its important role in Slovenian literature.
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The selection of Slovenian texts, deriving from early Modern criminal courts, is very insignificant and almost entirely untreated. Even though there are only five known texts, including the newly discovered, the selection is rich in genre, since we are not dealing only with oaths, but with four types of judicial texts: a proclamation of admission of guilt, an announcement of judgment, two oaths of waiving the revenge and an oath form for witnesses. All the texts are from the 18th century and were recorded by the judicial authorities for the non-privileged, the majority of the population. Three origin from the territory of the Slovenian Styria, from Hrastovec in Slovenske gorice, while two origin from Carniola, from Poljane ob Kolpi (today Predgrad) and Kostanjevica na Krki. Each of the five discussed texts has its own added value, especially the two oldest. These are in fact the only known early modern Slovenian records of announcement of two legal actions in front of any secular court: admission of guilt by the accused and judgement. The vocabulary represents a valuable contribution for the older Slovenian legal terminology.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 40111917The Poljane Manuscript is believed to have been compiled around 1800 at the Capuchin monastery in Škofja Loka. Geographically, the manuscript belongs to the Rovte dialect group, which was strongly influenced by Upper Carniolan dialect innovations, and at the time of its compilation the Central Slovene standard version was in common use. The manuscript's author is unknown, but the addressee, the purpose of its creation, its relation to known models, the religious and political circumstances, and the influence of these factors on the manuscript's linguistic form can be defined. The analysis of individual phonological features shows that the author took into account both the Reformation-era written tradition and the contemporary Central Slovene standard version; in addition, many Rovte Upper Carniolan dialect features are also present that were not acceptable in the Central Slovene standard version of that time.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 63350626Marko Pohlin, the beginner of Slovenian national and literary revival, translated between 1781 and 1784 into Slovenian a collection of epistolary samples "Briefe, nebst einer Praktischen Abhandlung von dem guten Geschmacke in Briefen" that was published in 1751 by Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, renowned writer of German Enlightenment. Paper deals with Pohlin’s ambitious aim: establishment of intellectual letter in Slovenian language within higher social classes.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 35740973Among the writers of the Baroque period that have been completely overlooked by the literary studies is also the Franciscan friar Konrad Branka, born in Mengeš in 1737. The article presents the basic traits of his life and work. He was a prolific writer of what could be called as excellent theological essays in the form of sermons or rhetoric prose. The years of 1776–1782, when he was active as a lector, i.e. teacher of theology at the general Franciscan theological school in Ljubljana, appear to be the time of his intensive literary activity. At this time, father Konrad has written three impressive books of homiletic rhetorical prose in clear and vivid literary language. However, they have never been printed – all of them remained only in manuscript form. The same, or even worse, applies to his sermons or meditations on the holy Eucharist – the sacred Corpus Christi; some of them appear to be lost. Among them, a homiletic series is partly preserved, entitled "Sermons on mysterious sacrifice of the holy mass" (Pridige od prečudniga ofra svete maše), from which some passages are published in the article.
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