COLLECTORS OF ETHNOGRAPHIC AND FOLKLORISTIC MATERIALS FROM DALMATIA IN HE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION OF ZBORNIK ZA NARODNI ŽIVOT I OBIČAJE AND MATICA HRVATSKA IN THE ARCHIVES OF ETHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF THE CROATIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS IN ZAGREB (Summary)

Ovim se prilogom prikazuje etnološka i folkloristička građa iz Dalmacije u rukopisnim kolekcijama Zbornika za narodni život i običaje (ZbNŽO) i Matice hrvatske (MH) pohranjenim u Etnološkom zavodu Hrvatske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti (HAZU) u Zagrebu. Riječ je o 144 zbirke koje se odnose na rukopisnu građu iz Dalmacije od ukupno 640 rukopisa koji čine spomenutu rukopisnu Zbirku Etnološkog zavoda HAZU.This contribution illustrates ethnological and folkloristic materials from Dalmatia in the manuscript collections of Zbornik za narodni život i običaje (ZbNŽO) and Matica hrvatska (Matrix Croatica, MH), archived in Ethnological Institute of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU) in Zagreb. In this paper, the authors discuss 144 collections that deal with the manuscript materials from Dalmatia, from the total of 640 manuscripts that make up the manuscript collection of the HAZU\u27s Ethnological Institute. This paper describes individual manuscript collections and points out the fact that the materials from Dalmatia include all of the general features that charcterize the Collection as a whole, and that its contents belong to the oral tradition of a specific region. Finally, the paper emphasizes that this material is priceless today, because it is indeed regional Croatian traditional material that is, according to the manuscripts\u27 data, about two hundred years old. Ethnologists, anthropologists and folklorists have a solid basis in this authentic material, because it is here to be comparatively used together with their own fieldwork research and notes. Protection and scholarly treatment of this immensely valuable material will enable the creation of works that deal with the traditional culture, the publication of Croatian ethnographic monographs, the comparative research on oral literature, the compilations of anthologies of folk poems and the editing of different critical publications of manuscript collections