SOME GRAPHETIC STANDARDISATIONS IN PRINTED CROATIAN GLAGOLITIC MISSALS

In this paper attention is given to Eduard Hercigonja’s contribution to the study of graphemes in printed Croatian Glagolitic texts. Before the presentation of the results, it is the applied methodology elaborated in many aspects also by the honoured that is being discussed. The approach to the written text is based on the differentiation between graphematics (linguistic values primarily expressed by writing) and graphetics (the graphic level, visual text editing with no correspondent linguistic level). Presented are different perspectives under which these levels can be observed. The conclusion is that each of them has different editing patterns, that can - but should not - correspond to each other in terms of the degree of their rejuvenation or conservatism. Analysed are some graphetic features (contractions and suspensions, ligatures, scriptura continua) of some selected printed Croatian Glagolitic missals composed in the Croatian type of Old Slavonic language: the First Missal (1483), the Senj Missal (1494) Pavao of Mo- drus’ Missal (1528), Kozicic’ Missal (1531). It can be observed that the Senj Missal most conspicuously does not reflect relatively linear changes in the graphic arrangement: it has most abbreviations; the words are not separated from each other as frequently as in other three missals; the inventory of ligatures is the richest among the studied, but the ligatures themselves do not appear so consistently as in other ones (at some parts of the text twice as less as in the First Missal of 1483)