Title: Xivvot nikoliko izabranih divvicz
Caption: po Faustu VVrancsichyu bizkupu csanadszkomu, VVichniku Czeszarovu iztumacseen
Publication date: 1606
Author: Vrančić, Faust (lexicographer); Zanetti, Luigi (Zannettus, Zannetus, Aloysius) (printer); Tanzlinger Zanotti, Ivan (Croat. lexicographer)
Category: Old book
Place: Roma
Publisher: Apud Aloisium Zanettum
UDK: 235.3-055.2(02.045)
Format of the copy: PDF
Keywords: Saints – Biographies
Summary: Marin Franičević says the following about the work Život nikoliko izabranih divic: “For our literature it is significant as well a short text in the Croatian language, although it is of no particular literary value, this text is valuable as a document about Vrančić’s language and his attachment to the homeland.” The aforementioned book has long been a bibliographic rarity: it has been preserved in a small number of copies, and rare persons had it in their hands. This book was dedicated to the abbess and nuns of the Šibenik monastery of St. Salvation. Vrančić refers to his language as Dalmatian, but also as Slavic (Slavonicam tantum atque Ungaricam linguam), whereupon in the Dalmatian language he sees not only a common language of all the South Slavs but also the future common Slavic language. Faust Vrančić, living in a special spiritual atmosphere characterized by concern for spiritual goods, long before his vocation wrote the book Život nikoliko izabranih divic, a collection of hagiography, primarily about the saints specially worshiped in Dalmatia, along the Croatian coast and in Istria, the cult of which was very widespread in both the western and eastern churches. The book begins with a biography of St. Thecla, followed by St. Catherine, St. Cecilia, St. Agnes, St. Agatha, St. Lucy, St. Febronia, St. Eugenia, St. Euphrasia, St. Apollinaris, St. Mary of Egypt and finally St. Barbara. Since Vrančić cared about the unique and practical graphics of his book and books written by other Croatian writers, at the end of the book he added a note about his suggestion regarding the graphics of De ratione legendi, followed by the text De Slovvinis seu Sarmatis, a three pages long letter to Krzysztof Warszewicki, the canon in Krakow. Source: F. Vrančić. Život nekoliko izabranih divic. Prepared by: J. Bratulić, B. Glavičić, J. Lisac, M. Šokota. Šibenik, 1995.
Note: On the cover there is a handwritten note: P. Ivanna Tanzlinghera Kanon. Zadar … Contains also: De ratione legendi and De Slovvinis seu Sarmatis
Note: On the cover there is a handwritten note: P. Ivanna Tanzlinghera Kanon. Zadar … Contains also: De ratione legendi and De Slovvinis seu Sarmatis