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The Glagolitic Confraternities Books of the Zadar Area and their Value as Historical Documents

Glagolitic confraternities’ books are important sources for studying the everyday life of ordinary people as they are full of onomastic, demographic, sociological, historical and linguistic data. This article defines confraternities’ records and problems in determining the name of a par¬ticular book. Distinctions can be made between the main book of the confraternity (madrikula, codex), books of accounts (kvaterani, notebooks), books of income and expenditures (datja i prijatja, prijaće i trošnje), treas¬ury logs of the parish church with confraternity records, fishing cost statements, endowment records (knjige lašov, legata), records of debtors, books with various lists and annotations such as fascicles with lists of deceased broth¬ers, and lists of judges, gastalds or procurators. To determine the type of codex as well as the sequence of entries, it is important to know the historical context, as well as the operating mode of confraternities in general, and then thoroughly investigate the work of the confra¬ternity to which the codex refers. It is only then possible to complete the sequence of pages of a damaged book, which will again after the restoration serve the scholar¬ship of researchers from different areas. Thus, through the books of confraternities, complemented by documents preserved in various archival fonds, we can recon¬struct the life of a particular village in the past. The Confraternities’ books are digitized within the pro¬ject Digitization, bibliographic description and research of texts written in Glagolitic, Croatian Cyrillic and Lat¬in scripts until the end of 19th century in the Zadar and Šibenik area (Written heritage).

confraternities, codices (madrikula), books of accounts, everyday life, Monumenta glagolitica Archidioecesis Iadretinae, Digital Humanities

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