БЕЛЕЖНИЦА СВЕТИСЛАВА ВУЛОВИЋА

Abstract

The National Library of Serbia holds numerous collections of manuscripts. Among them is a notebook attributed to Božidar Knežević (1862–1905), philosopher, historian and translator from English, French, German and Russian into the Serbian language. After thorough analysis of the manuscript, chronology, and published papers the author of the Notebook referred to, we could conclude that Notebook did not belong to Božidar Knežević, but Svetislav Vulović (1847–1898), literary critic and literary historian, professor of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy, member of the Royal Serbian Academy of Sciences. The paper deals with the composition and dating of the Notebook (1894, 1896, 1897). It considers Vulović’s diary notes, reconstruction of his travels in Southern Serbia and Austria-Hungary (Abbazzia respectively), the identity of the people he met and spoke to. He recorded the versions of Serbian national epic poems he heard sung to the gusle, and published them.