Status of monument -> National monument
Pursuant to Article V para. 4 Annex 8 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Article 39 para. 1 of the Rules of Procedure of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments, at a session held from 21-27 January 2003 the Commission adopted a
D E C I S I O N
I
The movable cultural property of a Collection of 22 incunabula, the property of the Franciscan Monastery in Kraljeva Sutjeska, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is hereby designated as a National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The provisions relating to the protection and rehabilitation measures set forth by the Law on the Implementation of the Decisions of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments, established pursuant to Annex 8 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Official Gazette of the Federation of BiH nos. 2/02 and 27/02) shall apply to the National Monument specified in the preceding paragraph.
II
The Government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is responsible for providing the legal, scientific, technical, administrative, and financial measures for the protection, conservation, presentation, and rehabilitation of the National Monument specified in Clause I of this Decision.
III
The Government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina shall ensure the appropriate material and technical conditions for the safekeeping of the collection of incunabula and shall supervise its protection.
The display and other forms of presentation of the collection of incunabula in the area of Bosnia and Herzegovina shall be performed to the terms and conditions stipulated by the Federal Ministry with jurisdiction over cultural affairs.
IV
Everyone, and in particular the competent authorities of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Canton, and urban and municipal authorities, shall refrain from any action that might damage the National Monument specified in Clause I of this Decision or jeopardize the protection and rehabilitation thereof.
V
The removal of the collection of incunabula from Bosnia and Herzegovina is prohibited.
By way of exception to the provisions of paragraph 1 of this Clause, the temporary removal from Bosnia and Herzegovina of the collection of incunabula for the purposes of display or conservation shall be permitted if it is established that conservation works cannot be carried out in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Permission for the temporary removal of the collection of incunabula from Bosnia and Herzegovina under the conditions stipulated in the preceding paragraph shall be issued by the Commission to Preserve National Monuments, if it is determined beyond doubt that it will not jeopardize the collection in any way. In granting permission for the temporary removal of the collection, the Commission shall stipulate all the conditions under which the removal may take place, the date by which the collection shall be returned to Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the responsibility of individual authorities and institutions for ensuring that these conditions are met, and shall notify the Government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the relevant security service, the customs authority of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the general public accordingly.
VI
The owner of the National Monument specified in Clause 1 of this Decision, the Franciscan Monastery in Kraljeva Sutjeska, the Government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Federal Ministry of Culture and the Institute for the Protection of the Cultural Heritage of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina shall be notified of this Decision in order to carry out the measures stipulated in Clauses II, III, IV, and V of this Decision.
VII
The elucidation and accompanying documentation form an integral part of this Decision, which may be viewed by interested parties on the premises or by accessing the website of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments (http://www.aneks8komisija.com.ba).
VIII
Pursuant to Art. V para 4 Annex 8 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, decisions of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina are final
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This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its adoption and shall be published in the "Official Gazette Bosnia and Herzegovina" and "Official Gazette of Federation Bosnia and Herzegovina ".
This Decision has been adopted by the following members of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments: Zeynep Ahunbay, Amra Hadžimuhamedović, Dubravko Lovrenović, Ljiljana Ševo and Tina Wik.
President of the Commission
Dubravko Lovrenović
No: 05- 6- 88/03
18 January 2003.
Sarajevo
E l u c i d a t i o n
I- INTRODUCTION
Pursuant to Article 2, paragraph 1 of the Law on the Implementation of the Decisions of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments, established pursuant to Annex 8 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a “National Monument” is an item of public property proclaimed by the Commission to Preserve National Monuments (hereinafter referred to as the Commission) to be a National Monument pursuant to Articles V and VI of Annex 8 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereinafter referred to as Annex 8) and as property entered on the Provisional List of National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Official Gazette of BiH no. 33/02) until the Commission reaches a final decision on its status, as to which there is no time limit and regardless of whether a petition for the property in question has been submitted or not.
The Commission to Preserve National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereinafter the Commission) was approached by representatives of the Franciscan Monastery of St. John the Baptist, Kraljeva Sutjeska, on 22 November 2002 with a proposal to designate the Collection of Incunabula from Kraljeva Sutjeska as a national monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Commission duly initiated the procedure of designating the movable cultural property of the collection of incunabula a national monument pursuant to Article V of Annex 8 to the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Article 35 of the Rules of Procedure of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments.
II- PROCEDURE PRIOR TO DECISION
In the procedure proceding the adoption of a final decision to proclaim the property a national monument, the following documentation was inspected:
1. The collection of incunabula
2. Descriptions of the collection of incunabula from Kraljeva Sutjestka in special monographs
The findings based on the review of the above documentation are as follows:
1. Data on the collection
Location
The collection is held in the Franciscan monastery of St. John the Baptist in Kraljeva Sutjeska, which was the capital of the Bosnian rulers in the late Middle Ages. As well as the court, the Franciscan monastery was founded there, and has been the spiritual and cultural centre of the area for more than six centuries.
Historical data
Incunabula are books produced in the infancy of printing, before 1500. There are believed to be some 40,000 such books in the world as a whole. In Bosnia and Herzegovina there are about fifty, of which twenty-nine, or more than half, are in the possession of the Franciscan monastery in Kraljeva Sutjeska. Most of them are works of a theological nature, including those by significant authors such as Augustine Aurelius (known as St. Augustine, 354-430), Antonius Andreae, Leonardus de Utino (c. 1400), and Nicolaus de Ausmo (d. 1453).
The original monastery is believed to have been built in the first half of the fourteenth century. The first reference to it is to be found in a catalogue made by the Franciscan writer Bartolomeo da Pisa in 1385.
After Ottoman rule was established in Bosnia, there is a record of the monastery in a defter (Turkish document) dating from 1469. The Ottoman conquerors razed the monastery in 1524, and for a long period thereafter the Franciscans were unable to rebuild because of difficulties in obtaining a permit, while the use of durable building materials was also prohibited.
In 1658 it burned down with all of its valuables, and it was rebuilt in 1664. During the Vienna War (late seventeenth century), high levels of taxation compelled the Franciscans to abandon the building and live in village huts. They returned in 1704. In the nineteenth century the monastery was was twice rebuilt, for the last time between 1888 and1890, when the present building was erected.
A similar fate befell the church dedicated to St. John the Baptist, which was demolished in 1524, but was restored soon after: there is reference to it in a document dating from 1530. It was renovated in 1596. It was not affected by the fire that destroyed the monastery. During the eighteenth century it was renovated twice, in 1728 and 1784/5. Despite this, by 1821 it had deteriorated so badly that it was pulled down and rebuilt again; in 1858 another new building was erected to replace it, which was renovated in 1924 and is still in use today.
In the Middle Ages, when Bosnia was an independent state, the Franciscans were key actors in the social events of the day.
The assumption is that before the fire of 1658 the monastery must have had its own stock of books, which went up in flames along with the monastery. Immediately on completion of the new building, the Franciscans began assembling a new library. Acquisitions took the form of the purchase of books, gifts, and legacies from deceased members of the monastic community. Initially, during the Vienna war, acquisitions were few as a result of the extremely difficult circumstances in which the Franciscans found themselves. During the Austro-Hungarian period, the stocks of books of Franciscan monastic libraries grew considerably, with the encouragement of the highest authorities of the Province. In 1906, for example, the Provincial Chapter called for particular attention to be paid to parochial libraries, and in 1912 a list of the specific books that should be held was issued. It was stated on that occasion that the Province would set aside a specific sum each year for books and for the theological periodicals required for study purposes, and the guardians of three monasteries (Fojnica, Kreševo, and Kraljeva Sutjeska) were called upon to organize their libraries to academic criteria. In Kraljeva Sutjeska this was carried out by Franjo Blažević the following year, following the Italian model (M. Karamatić, 1992, p. 255).
Legal status to date
Thus far the Collection of incunabula at the Kraljeva Sutjeska monastery has not enjoyed legal protection.
2. Description of the collection of incunabula
The earliest printed books, dating to before 1500, can be divided into two groups: those printed from wood blocks onto which each page was cut individually (tabular), and books using the movable type invented by Gutenberg, which are more properly designated as incunabula (typographic).
The collection of incunabula forms part of the monastery library, which is of particular interest and value not only for its incunabula but also for its works by early local authors. The collection of incunabula, in turn, is of particular significance in that it contains twenty-two of the total of fifty-one such works in Bosnia and Herzegovina(1).
The incunabula can be classified into two groups. The first is of texts by authors who predate the invention of printing, i.e. incunabula where the works of writers from antiquity or the mediaeval period have been printed from a unique manuscript that has since been lost or succumbed to the ravages of time. The second group of incunabula comprises works contemporary with the incunabula themselves, mainly theological and scholastic tractates.
Catalogue of incunabula of the convent of Kraljeva Sutjeska
1. Antonius Andreae
Scriptum in artem veterem Aristotelis et in divisiones Boethii.
Venetiis (Bonetus Locatellus) impensis Octaviani Scoti de Modoetia, III nonas nov. (i. E. Post 3. XI.) 1492; 2(2). ff.104.
HC 987. GW 1671. Stillwell A 529. Gspan- Badalić 23.
Printed in two columns, with the "Tabula questionum" in three columns. Lower-case letters in two sizes.
On folio 104 verso there is a typographical mark, in white on a black ground: the letters OSM inscribed within a circle below a double cross.
The watermark is a pair of scales within a circle in the centre of the page.
In Hain- in 987, the second sentence of the colophon begins «Et presens totum opus...» instead of «Et per consequens opus...»
Occasional marginal notes in Latin in sixteenth century cursive Humanistic.
Leather half binding with a cover of marbled paper. The leather on the spine is completely worn away. The seam is preserved. The front free endpaper is missing.
S III 252. (photograph number 2)
2. Antoninus Florentinus
De sponsalibus et matrimonio...
Venetiis, Johannes de Colonia, Agripinensi, et Johannes Manthen, de Gherretzem, VI id. Maii (10. V.) 1480.; 4. ff.6.
HC + 1270. BMC V 236. GW 2071. Stillwell A 685.
There are 40 to 42 lines to a column.
Folio a1 is blank.
Folio a1 is missing.
Bound in leather-covered pasteboard. Eighteenth century.
Associated with:
Franciscus de Platea: Opus restitutionum, usurarum, excommunicationum. Venectiis 1474.
S I 568. (photograph number 3)
3. Augustinus, Aurelius
De civitate dei. Cum commento Thomasii Waley et Nicolai de Trivet.
Venetiis, (Bonetus Locatellus) impensis Octaviani Scoti, XII. Kal. Mart. (18. II.) 1489/90; 2. ff. 264.
HC 2065. C 760. BMC V 437. GW 2889. Stillwell A 1104.
There are 49 to 52 lines to a column with larger lower-case letters, and 63-66 lines to a column with smaller lower-case letters. On folio HH6 recto is a typographical mark, in white on a black ground: the letters OSM inscribed within a circle below a double cross. The water mark is a pair of scales within a circle.
Folios G2, G6 are missing. Folios G3, G7 are repeated.
On folio a1 recto is an annotation in sixteenth-century humanistic script: Vincentius R. Morelius J. O. A. On folio HH6 verso the same hand inscribed a notary sign with initials V. R. M.
Numerous Latin marginal notes in fifteenth century Gothic antique.
Bound in leather-covered pasteboard, eighteenth century.
S I 1150. (photograph number 4)
4. Augustinus, Aurelius
De trinitate.
(Basileae), Johannes Amerbach, 1489; 2. ff. 86.
HC 2037. BMC III 751, GW 2926. Stillwell A 1195. Gspan- Badalić 63.
On the lower part of folio a2 recto, on the blank sections between the lines, is an annotation in seventeenth century Latin characters: Pertinet ad Bibliothecam Snacti Ioannis Baptistae Sutischae.
The binding is eighteenth century leather-covered pasteboard.
S I 1159. (photograph number 5)
5. Pseudo- Augustinus
Meditationes.
Brixiae, Angelus Britannicus, 8. X. 1498; 8. ff. 146.
HC 1951. BMC VII 980. GW 2972. Stillwell A 1148.
On the reverse of the last folio of each gathering is a custos.
Folio l1 has "kk" instead of signature "l".
White typographical mark on a black ground: a circle halved by a horizontal line. In the middle of the lower semicircle is a small white circle (dot). The upper semicircle is halved by the upright of a double cross with a star at the other end. The letters “A” and “B” in the quarters of the circle.
Twenty-eight to thirty-two lines to a column.
Folios m12, O10, p8 are blank.
On the front of the free endpaper there is an annotation in sixteenth century Humanistic script: Fr. Gregorius Dumen.
On folio (a)1 recto, an annotation: Ad usum fratris Georgii Cavlovik.
On folio (a)1 verso, an annotation: Iste liber spectat ad usum fratris Matthaci de Sutiesca.
On folio m11 verso, an annotation: Iste est liber ad usum fratris Ludovici de Puteo.
On foliio m12 verso, an annotation: Iste est liber ad usum fratris Andree Bigics ragusei.
On folio (a)1 recto in the lower margin, an annotation in seventeenth century Latin characters: Pertinet ad Bibliotecham S. Ioannis Baptistae Sutieskae.
On the front page of the second endpaper there is an annotation in Bosnian Cyrillic on the fifteen prayers of St Bridget uttered in St. Peter's in Rome. The inside back cover contains an annotation in Bosnian Cyrillic: “It is good to learn to write.”
The binding dates from the fifteenth century. The covers are of wood with half leather and no other covering. The leather protects the spine and half of both covers. On the leather of both covers there is a stamped rectangle of plaiting created by repeating the same hall-mark. Remains of a clasp with small strap.
S II 132. (photograph number 6)
6. Biblia
Biblia (lat).
Venetiis, Johannes Herbot, de Seligenstadt, pridie kal. Maii (30. IV.) 1484; 4. ff. 408.
HC + 3091. BMC V 304. GW 4255. Stillwell B 514. Badalić 195. Gspan- Badalić 109.
There are 45 to 57 lines to a column.
Folio a1 is missing.
The occasional marginal notes in Latin are in sixteenth century cursive Humanistic script.
The binding is eighteenth century leather-covered pasteboard.
S I 871. (photograph number 8)
7. Caracciolus, Robertus
Sermones de laudibus sanctorum. Corr.: Gasparino Borro. Venetiis, Bernardinus Benalius, kal. Oct. (1. X.) 1490; 4. ff. 220.
H + 4482. BMC V 373. GW 6059. Stillwell C 137. Badalić 299.
The book has signature and foliation. At the end of every gathering is a custos. Exceptionally, there is also a custos on folios v6 verso and z6 verso. On folio y2 the signature is missing. In the gatherings with the signatures t, x, y, z, q the first pages are marked with number «1». The foliation is as follows: (1)- (4), (I), II, IIII, III, VI, V, VII- XXXII, 33- 39, XL, 41- 139, 143, 141, 142. 139. 144- 147, 150, 149, 148, 151- 182, 193, 194, 185, 186, 189, 190, 189, 192, 191, 192, 193- 201, 208, 203- 207, 202. 209- 215.
There are 47 to 49 lines to a column.
Folio A8 (220th)is blank.
Folio A8 (220th)is missing.
Occasional marginal notes in Latin are written in red in sixteenth century cursive Humanistic.
On folio a1 recto is an annotation in seventeenth century Latin characters: Pertinet ad Bibliotecham Sancti Joanis Baptistae Sutischae.
The binding is eighteenth century leather-covered pasteboard.
S II 1113. (photograph number 9)
8. Duns Scotus, Johannes
Quaestiones in subtilissime Scoti in metaphysicam Aristotelis. Metaphysica esc.
Venetiis, Johannes Hamann impensis Andreae Torresani de Asula, XIII kal. Sept. (20. VIII.) 1499; 4. ff. 234.
H + 6451. BMC 428. GW 9066. Stillwell D 300. Badalić 420.
At the end of every gathering there is a custos, except on the gatherings with the signatures x, y.
Foliation: 1- 115, 110, 117- 147, 149, 250, 151, 251, 153- 233.
There are 49 to 51 lines to a column with smaller lower-case letters.
Folio ff10 (234th) is missing.
On folio A1 recto there is an annotation in seventeenth century Latin characters: «Pertinet ad Bibliothecam Sancti Joannis Baptistae Sutischae».
The binding is eighteenth century leather-covered pasteboard.
S III 203. (photograph number 10)
9. Duns Scotus, Johannes
Quaestiones in Universalia Porphyrii etc.
Venetiis, Simon de Luere immpensis Andreae Torresani, de Asula, 20. III. 1500; 2. ff. 164.
H 6447 = HR 10922 = H 10921 (?) GW 9091. Stillwell D 317. Badalić 418.
The watermark is a pair of scales within a circle. Above the scale there is a star. The watermark is in the centre of the sheet.
On folio 41 verso between the lines above the explicit, there is an annotation in cursive Gothic: «Finita praemandendo a doctore Iohanne Duns Anno 1501 calendas agusti 17 camerino.»
The numerous marginal notes in Latin are from two different hands. Some are written in Gothic, and others in Humanistic. On folios 85 verso and 86 recto there are assays in seventeenth century Bosnian Cyrillic.
The binding is eighteenth century leather-covered pasteboard.
Associated with:
Trombetta, Antonius: Opus doctrinae Scoticae. Venetiis, 1493.
S III 247. (photograph number 7)
10. Duranti, Guillelmus
Rationale divinorum officiorum. Ed. Johannes Aloisius Tuscanus.
Vincentiae, Hermannus Liechtenstein, 1478; 2. ff. 228.
H + 6480. BMC VII 1037. GW 9115. Stillwell D 342. Badalić 424.
Folio A1 (3rd from beginning) is blank.
Folios A1, O8 are missing.
On folio (a)1 (the first folio), in the lower margin there is an annotation in eighteenth century Latin characters: «R. Pr. Fr. Marinus Turbich a Bosna Argentina.
The first initial on folio A2 recto is gilded, on a purple, blue and green ground. Other initials are blue or green. An archaic paragraph indicator in the shape of an inverted letter D is drawn in red or blue. In the text, almost all the upper case letters are crossed through with a red line.
The binding is eighteenth century leather-covered pasteboard.
S II 1522. (photograph number 11)
11. Hibernija, Thomas de
Manipulus florum seu Sententiae Patrum.
Placentiae, Jacobus de Tyela, Almanus 5. IX. 1483; 2. ff. 182.
HC + 8542. Bmc VII 1072, Stillwell H 137. Badalić 530.
Folio a1 (i.e. the first folio) and the last fourteen are missing.
Occasional marginal notes in Latin are written in fifteenth century cursive Humanistic.
Associated with:
Spiera Tarvisinus, Ambrosius de: Quadragesimale de floribus sapientiae. Venezia, 1488.
S II 1272/ adl. 1. (photograph number 12)
12. Leonardus de Utino
Sermones aurei de sanctis.
Venetis, Johannes de Colonija et Johannes Manthen, de Gherretzem. 1475; 4. ff. 314.
HC + 16132. BMC V 226. Stillwell L 135. Badalić 682.
The watermark is a stylized eagle within a circle.
There are 38 to 40 lines to a column.
Folio ee12 (314th) is blank.
Folios n1 and ee12 are missing.
Gothic initials are drawn in red, blue, brown, or green. Some are in two colours. They are decorated with stylized leaves and flowers. Some have elongated, intertwined ends. The sections are marked with a red sign in the shape of an inverted D. The upper case letters are crossed for decoration with a red or yellow line.
On folio a2 recto the upper cut removed the owner's name, so that the only discernible word is «Ragusei». An elliptical metal seat is impressed in the middle of the first initial with the words: «Sigilum. S. Ioans. De Svtisca.»
Numerous marginal notes in Latin in fifteenth century cursive Gothic.
The oriental Arabic binding with overlap dates from the sixteenth century. The covers are pasteboard made of ten to twelve sheets of writing paper covered with leather. Three parallel lines are impressed along the edges of the covers. The capitals are sewn in red and black thread.
S II 913. (photograph number 13)
13. Marchesinus, Johannes
Mammotrectus super Bibliam.
Venetiis, (Ionnes Rubeus), 18. VI. 1498; 8. ff. 300.
HC + 10574. BMC V 596. Stillwell M 221.
There are 35 to 37 lines to a column.
Folio H8 (300th) is blank.
Folio H8 is missing.
The binding is eighteenth century leather-covered pasteboard.
S I 210. (photograph number 14)
14. Marchesinus, Johannes
Mammotrectus super Bibliam.
Venetiis, Franciscus Renner, de Hilbronn, et Nicolaus de Frankfordia, 1476; 4. ff. 240.
HCR 10557, BMC V 194. Stillwell M 203. Gspan-Badalić 428.
There is a typographical error in the signature, C4 instead of B4.
There are 39 to 40 lines to a column.
Folios A1, a1, b7, i1, 310 are missing.
Initials are red or blue, decorated with stylized vine tendrils extending well into the marginal space. Markings for sections in the shape of an inverted letter D are drawn in red and blue.
On folio 39 verso there is an annotation in seventeenth century Latin characters: Ad usum fratris Pietri de Marino glava magister in Alle Saline.
On folio A2 recto there is an annotation in seventeenth century Latin characters: Pertinet ad Bibliotecham Sancti Ioannis Bapt(is)tae Sutis(chae). (The ends of the annotation were cut off during binding).
The binding is eighteenth century leather-covered pasteboard.
S I 619. (photograph number 15)
15. Mauritius de Portu Hibernicae
Lectura in quaestiones Joannis Scoti super Isagogis Porphyrii.
(Mediolani), (Johannes Angelus Scinzenzeller). (ca. 1500); 2. ff. 66.
HR 10923. Stillwell M 333.
Folios AA1, HH10 are blank.
Folios AA1, HH10 are missing.
The binding is eighteenth century pasteboard covers covered in marbled paper.
S III 215. (photograph number 16)
16. Nicolaus de Ausmo
Supplementum Summae Pisanellae et Canones Poeniteetiales fratris Astensis et Consilia Alexandri de Nevo contra Judaeos foenerantes.
Venetiis, Leornardus Wild, «1489» (i. E. 1479); 4. ff. 380.
HC + 2169. BMC V 269. Stillwell N 57. Badalić 780. Gspan- Badalić 477.
There are 48 to 49 lines to a column
Folios a1, b10 (first and 380th) are blank.
Sheet a2 (2nd) is missing.
Initials and section markings in the shape of an inverted letter D are drawn in blue.
The front and back endpapers are reinforced on the fold with parchment strips 4 cm wide, which were cut from an ancient French codex written in pre-Humanistic Gothic.
On both sides of folio a1, there are annotations in Latin written in fifteenth century cursive Humanistic about the primacy of the Pope, an opinion by Thomas Aquinas on the monastic duties of a monk who has become a bishop, and an opinion of Bonaventura.
Bound in the fifteenth century in thick parchment.
S I 516. (photograph number 18)
17. Orbelis, Nicolaus de
Exposito super teksu Petri Hispani.
Venetis, Aalbertinus Vercellensis, 10. II. 1500; 4. ff. 134.
HCR 12052. BMC V 422. Stillwell O 72.
The watermark is a pair of scales within a circle.
On folio a1 verso there is an annotation in sixteenth century Humanistic: «Ad usum fratris Lelii Florentini».
Beneath this there is an annotation in seventeenth century Latin characters: «Ad usum fratris Marini Bielanich».
Beneath this there is an annotation in sixteenth century cursive Humanistic: «Ego Georgius Carubo subscripsi manu mea propria».
Numerous marginal notes in Latin were written in sixteenth century cursive Gothic, Gothic antique. On the back of the last folio is an annotation: «Laus Deo 1583».
The binding is made of parchment taken from an older and larger binding.
S III 219. (photograph number 19)
18. Pacificus Novarensis
Sammola di pacifica copscienza (ital.).
Venetiis, Joannes Baptista de Sessa, 1498- 1500; 8. ff. 200.
C 4575. Stillwell P 3, with the following difference:
Sign.: A8- Z8, ?Inverted, 08, foliation: (1), 2- 200.
There are 33 to 34 lines to a column.
Folio 199 recto, line 31: in secula seculorum. Amen. Telos// FECIT.
Folio 199 verso, line 33: li clerici e semplici secardoti. Cap. 21. car. 123.
Incomplete. Folio 200 is missing.
Eighteenth century leather-covered pasteboard covers.
S II 351. (photograph number 20)
19. Paulus Venetus
Exposito in librosPosteriores Aristotelis Ed. Franciscus de Macerata.
Venetis, Simon Bevilaqua, Papiensis, impensis Vincenti de Benalis, VI id. Apr. 8. IV. 1494; 2. ff. 106.
HC 12514. BMC V 519. Stillwell P 187. Badalić 851.
Marginal notes in Latin date from the sixteenth century, and originate from three different hands. Some are written in calligraphic cursive Humanistic, others in Humanistic without linking letters, and the third group in very small Gothic antique.
Associated with:
Thomas Aquinas: Exposito in libros Posteriorum et in De interpretatione- Venetiis 1495.
S III 253/ adl. 1. (photograph number 17)
20. Picus de Mirandula, Johannes
Omnia opera.
Venetiis, Bernardinus Venetus, de Vitalibus, I) 9. X. 1498; II)14. VII. 1498; 2. ff. 262.
HC + 12993. BMC V 548. Stillwell P 581. Badalić 895.
There are 35 to 46 lines to a column. The water mark is a pair of scales within a circle, and in the extension of the handle there is a small circle and a star.
On folio A1 recto there is an annotation in Latin characters: «Ad usum fratris Martini de Albis Provincie Bosne Argentine 1600». (Martin Bijelić).
Immediately after that there is another annotation: «Postea pertonet ad Bibliothecam Sancti Ioannis Bartiste Sutische».
At the bottom of the same page there is a scribbled annotation in Latin characters: “Fratris Pauli Feleris. Emptus Mediol. 1577 // sacre theologie lectoris ordinis sancti Augustini.”
Occasional marginal notes in sixteenth century Latin Humanistic.
S I 1154. (photograph number 22)
21. Spiera, Ambrosius de
Quadragesimale de floribus sapientiae. Ed. Marcus Venetus.
Venetiis, Bonetus Locatellus impensis Octaviani Scoti, X kal. Mart. (20. II.) 1489; 4. ff. 304.
HC + 922. BMC V 436. Stillwell S 607. Badalić 45. Gspan- Badalić 620.
The typographical mark of Octavian Scott has the following colouring in this instance: red circle, yellow double cross, and white letters OSM, all on a black ground.
Folio a1 is blank.
Folio a1 is missing.
Initials are red or blue. Some of them are decorated with stylized leaves in brown. Sections are marked with a sign in the shape of an inverted letter D.
On folio a2 recto in the lower margin there is an annotation in Latin characters: »Hic liber est ad usum Mariani de Angelis apud Bosnam».
On folio 304 recto there is an annotation in Latin characters: «Hic liber pertinet ad usum fratris Thome Scoronovi 1572».
On folio Y8 recto in the lower margin there are verses written in fifteenth century literary Humanistic:
«Prima rubri unda. Ranarum plaga secunda.
Inde culex tristis. Post musca nocentior istis.
Quinta pecus... Ursica sexta...»
The last line has been cut off. The same hand wrote marginal notes in several places.
It was bound in the eighteenth century in black leather-covered pasteboard covers.
Associated with:
Thomas de Hibernia: Manipulus florum seu Patrum.- Placentiae 1483.
S II 1272.
22. Tartaretus, Petrus
Exposito in summulas Petri Hyspani.
Lugduni, Jacobus Maillet, 7. V. 1498; 4. ff. 106.
C 5711.
Occasional marginal notes in Serbo-Croatian are written in eighteenth century Bosnian Cyrillic. In addition, in numerous places there are very short marginal notes in Latin written in sixteenth century Latin characters.
Bound in the eighteenth century with leather-covered pasteboard covers.
Associated with:
1. Tartaretus, Petrus: Exposito super textu logices Aristotelis. Lugduni. 1498.
2. Tartaretus, Petrus: Exposito totius philosophiae necnon metaphysicae Aristotelis. Lugduni 1498.
S III 244. (photograph number 23), (Popović, 1965, page 17- 41).
3. Works of conservation and restoration
So far the incunabula from the collection of the monastery of Kraljeva Sutjeska have not undergone any works of conservation or restoration.
4. Present condition of the items
The collection of incunabula is located in the library of the Franciscan monastery of St. John the Baptist in Kraljeva Sutjeska. The conditions in which the collection is held are not wholly suitable: the museum is not heated in winter, so that the incunabula are exposed to variations in temperature. Certain books require intervention for conservation purposes, mostly to the bindings, and cases appropriate for the safe keeping of such incunabula need to be provided.
III- CONCLUSION
This collection is evidence of the earliest origins of printing in the world as a whole and, specifically, demonstrates that the inhabitants of Bosnia and Herzegovina had links at that time with major European centres of learning and that there were libraries in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the late mediaeval period. The collection was also significant for the literacy of the population both then and later.
Applying the Criteria for the adoption of a decision on proclaiming an item of property a national monument, adopted at the fourth session of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments (3 to 9 September 2002), relating to the immovable and movable heritage of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Commission has enacted the Decision to designate the collection of incunabula consisting of twenty-two books from Franciscan monastery of St. John the Baptist in Kraljeva Sutjeska a National Monument.
The criteria that served as the basis for this Decision are:
A. Time frame
D. Clarity
D.II. – Evidence of historical changes
D.IV. – Evidence of a certain type, style, or regional manner
E. Symbolic value
E.III. – traditional value
E.IV. – relation to rituals
G. Authenticity
G.IV. – tradition and technique
I. Integrity
I.I. – physical coherence
I.II. – homogeneity
The following documentation forms an integral part of this Decision:
1. Photographs of the incunabula
Bibliography:
Barišić, Fra. R., Franjevački samostan i crkva u Sutjeskoj (The Franciscan Monastery and Church in Sutjeska), Gazette of the National Museum, Sarajevo, 1890, 28- 40.
Blago franjevačkih samostana (Treasures of Franciscan Monasteries), exhibition catalogue, Zagreb, 1990.
Enciklopedija hrvatske povijesti i kulture (Encyclopedia of Croat History and Culture), Školska knjiga, Zagreb, 1980, 237.
Enciklopedija likovne umjetnosti (Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts), Yugoslav Lexicographic Institute, Vol 3, Zagreb, MCMLXIV 2,
Gavranović, B., Franjevački samostan sv. Ivana Krstitelja (Franciscan Monastery of St. John the Baptist), unpublished, 94, 95 (m/s in the monastery in Kraljeva Sutjeska)
Jelenić, Fra. J., Kultura i bosanski franjevci (Culture and the Bosnian Franciscans), Svijetlost Sarajevo, phototype of the 1912 edition, Sarajevo 1990.
Jelinić, Fra. J., Ljetopis franjevačkog samostana Kraljeva Sutjeska (Chronicle of the Franciscan Monastery of Kraljeva Sutjeska, Gazette of the National Museum XXXV, Sarajevo, 1923, 1-30.
Karamatić, M., Franjevci Bosne Srebrene u vrijeme austrougarske uprave 1878.-1914. (The Franciscans of Bosnia Argentina during Austro-Hungarian Rule 1878-1914, Sarajevo, 1992.
Kraljeva Sutjeska, Bobovac, Catalogue, Zagreb, 1987.
Likovna enciklopedija Jugoslavije (Visual Arts Encyclopedia of Yugoslavia), Yugoslav Lexicographic Institute, Vol 1, Zagreb, 1984, 261.
Opća enciklopedija (General Encyclopedia), Yugoslav Lexicographic Institute, Vol 4, 8, Zagreb, 1982, 427, 223.
Popović, Lj., Popis inkunabula koje se nalaze u Bosni i Hercegovini (Catalogue of Incunabula located in Bosnia and Herzegovina), Librarianship, Belgrade, 1965, 17- 45.
Rašidbegović, A. and V. Hunski, Knjižno blago, Blago franjevačkih samostana Bosne i Hercegovine (Literary Treasures, Treasures of the Franciscan Monasteries of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Stari franjevački samostani Bosne i Hercegovine (Old Franciscan Monasteries of BiH), Catalogue, Sarajevo 1984.
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