On the beginnings of the Dictionary of the Croatian redaction of Church Slavonic compiling

Autorica se osvrće na početke rada na Rječniku crkvenoslavenskoga jezika hrvatske redakcije, započetom koncem 1959. godine u Staroslavenskom institutu u Zagrebu, koji je od svojega utemeljenja (1952. godine) planirao prirediti Rječnik iz hrvatskih glagoljskih starina, jer je na tom jeziku očuvan bogat korpus glagoljskih rukopisa i tiskanih knjiga biblijskoga, liturgijskoga i književnoga sadržaja. Zato je Institut podržao inicijativu pokrenutu na IV. međunarodnom slavističkom kongresu u Moskvi 1958. godine, da se pripremi jedinstveni Rječnik crkvenoslavenskoga jezika svih redakcija, u kojem bi na jednom mjestu bile zastupljene sve redakcije crkvenoslavenskoga jezika.The Moscow initiative (1958) for editing a dictionary of all redactions of Church Slavonic was accepted by the Old Church Slavonic Institute due to the fact that from its establishment (1952) the Institute planned to edit Rječnik iz hrvatskih glagoljskih starina. However, editing such a unique dictionary of all redactions turned out to be practically impossible to conduct. Therefore, it was arranged that dictionaries of the different redactions should be compiled, but on the common principles. There had been many difficulties — professional as well as ones involving human resources and financial sources — during the preparation period for compiling the Dictionary of the Croatian redaction of Church Slavonic. None of the biblical or liturgical glagolitic manuscript had been published. The same goes for the detailed descriptions of the glagolitic miscellanies. Consequently, it was unknown which texts in them are written in Church Slavonic. Also, there was no grammatical description of the Croatian redaction of Church Slavonic. At the time, there were not many associates in the Old Church Slavonic Institute and none of them had any lexicographical experience. Despite mentioned and many other difficulties two volumes of the Dictionary had been published (a — zapovêdnica) so far and evaluated as »one of the most excellent achievements of the Croatian humaniteies, i. e. philology in the last decades« (Reinhart). In the preparation of the Dictionary of the Croa­tian redaction of Church Slavonic many experienced associtates of the Slovník jazyka staroslověnského from Brno and Prague helped: Marketa Štěrbová, Josef Kurz, František Václav Mareš, Zoe Hauptová and Zdenka Ribarova, to whom the author expresses gratitude