The Manuscript Misfortunes of Ilija Crijević

Činjenica da je pjesnički dio opusa najvećega dubrovačkog humanističkog pjesnika Ilije Crijevića (1463 – 1520) tiskom izdan tek u novije vrijeme mogla bi navesti na zaključak da nije postojao osobit interes za njegov opus u prošlosti. K tomu, opstanak opsežnih Crijevićevih autografa (rukopisi Vat. lat. 1678 i Vat. lat. 2939 u Vatikanskoj knjižnici) značio je i svojevrsno filološko zabacivanje rukopisne predaje njegovih djela koja se odvijala u njegovu rodnom gradu od šesnaestog do devetnaestog stoljeća. Ta se rukopisna predaja sveobuhvatno prikazuje u ovom radu, a njezinim proučavanjem postaje vidljivo da su se Crijevićeva djela u tom razdoblju ne samo prepisivala nego da se njegov tekst u rukopisima i priređivao, kako svjedoči i kritički aparat u pojedinim rukopisima. Posebna će se pozornost posvetiti trudu Ivana Marije Matijaševića (1714 – 1791), koji je pokrenuo sustavniji kritički rad na Crijeviću, i Antuna Agića (1753 – 1830), koji je početkom devetnaestog stoljeća pripremio rukopisno izdanje Crijevićeve poezije i čiji su nam raspršeni rukopisi dragocjen vodič kroz povijest recepcije Crijevićevih tekstova u Dubrovniku i izvan njega. U radu se upućuje i na dosad nepoznato Crijevićevo autografno pismo princu Ferdinandu Napuljskom (Beč, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 9977) te se za otprije poznati rukopis posvećen Paolu Orsiniju (Firenca, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Cl. Magl. VII, 203) ustanovljuje da je također pjesnikov autograf. U prilogu radu donosi se dosad najpotpuniji popis rukopisa s Crijevićevim djelima, na kojem se nalazi 6 autografa i 32 prijepisa te 4 izgubljena rukopisa za koja se danas zna samo prema posrednim svjedočanstvima.The poetry of the greatest Ragusan humanist poet, Ilija Crijević (Aelius Lampridius Cervinus, 1463 – 1520), has been printed only in recent times. This might prompt the conclusion that there was no particular interest in his oeuvre in the past. What is more, the existence of the voluminous autographs of Crijević (the Vatican Library manuscripts Vat. lat. 1678 and Vat. lat. 2939) seems to have resulted in the scholarly neglect of the manuscript tradition of his works that developed in his native city from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. This manuscript tradition is comprehensively studied in this paper with the aim of showing that in this period Crijević’s works were not only copied by various scribes but that the text these scribes created was also critically edited, as shown by the presence of the critical apparatus in some of the surviving manuscripts. Particular attention will be devoted to the efforts of Ivan Marija Matijašević (1714 – 1791), who pioneered the systematic research on Crijević’s texts, as well as to those of Antun Agić (1753 – 1830), who at the beginning of the nineteenth century prepared a manuscript edition of Crijević’s poetry. Once identified and connected, Agić’s scattered manuscript papers provide an invaluable guide to the history of the reception of Crijević’s texts in Dubrovnik and beyond. The paper also identifies the hitherto unknown autograph letter Crijević sent to Prince Ferdinand of Naples (Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 9977) and establishes that the manuscript dedicated to Paolo Orsini (Firenze, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Cl. Magl. VII, 203) is similarly the poet’s autograph. The result of the research underpinning the paper is the list printed at the end, providing the most complete account of the surviving manuscripts with Crijević’s works: 6 autographs, 32 scribal copies, and 4 unidentified manuscripts known only from references made to them within the manuscript tradition