VOL. 53, BOOK 1, PART С, 2015, pp. 58 – 69 Full text (Hr)

Author: Anđela Frančić, Bernardina Petrović

Affiliation: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb

Abstract

Sybilla of Zrinski is a book of divination from Zrinski palace in Čakovec and a very finely illustrated 17th-century Latin manuscript from the 17th century, rendered and remade from the Hungarian. The paper presents an analysis of the phraseological units in terms of frequency, structure and concept in this Croatian manuscript. The research has shown that Zrinska sibila, as a record of spoken language, contains a large corpus of spoken idioms.

Key words: Sybilla of Zrinski, phraseology, books of divination, circle of Ozalj