Alphabetum Boëmicum (1718): slabikář pro učené

• Authors: Koupil Ondřej

Title variants

EN

Alphabetum Boëmicum (1718): a Primer for Scholars

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this article is to present the contents and accents of anonymously published Prague print Alphabetum Boëmicum (1718 in K. F. Rosenmüller’s publishing house). The book is written in Latin and provides the summarization of the traditional Czech orthography of Bohemian and Moravian printers of the 16th–19th century. The author of Alphabetum relies on the authority of Venceslaus Joannes Rosa’s grammar of Czech (1672). His practical handbook contains special orthographical rules (‘licentia scribentium’) for the scriveners in Czech – in the history of Czech language this is to be regarded as a rare testimony of the reflection of the distinction between the orthography for printers and that for scriveners.

Keywords

EN

Alphabetum Boëmicum; 18th century; history of the Czech orthography; orthography for scriveners

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Listy filologické (Folia philologica)
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 136
• Issue: 3-4
• Pages: 365-382

Contributors

author

Koupil Ondřej

• Ústav pro jazyk český AV Ř, v. v. i., Valentinská 1, 116 46 Praha 1, Czech Republic