11 centuries of Croatian Glagolitic Books

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11 centuries ofCroatian Glagolitic Books

• Darko Žubrinic
• prepared in July 2001.
• www.hr/hrvatska/Croatia-HCS.html

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Importance of the Glagolitic

• Pope Paul VI.
• Church-liturgical, Ecumenic meaning
• historical
• legal documents
• art
• music (glag. sing.)
• literary (Marulic, Zoranic)

• printing, palaegoraphy
• educative
• international
• representative
• scientific (Slovo)
• Z. Crnja, E. Hercigonja

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Krk slab (10th or 11th century)

• Se zida Maj opat, Radonja, Rugota, Dobroslav

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Valun tablet (10th or 11th century)

• Baka Tjeha, sin Bratohna, unuk Juna

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Vienna folia

• 11th century, 2 vellum leafs
• National library in Vienna
• Glagolita Clozianus, 11th century (Innsbruck,
  Trento)

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Budapest fragments

• 11th century, in 1782 glagolitic documents were
  moved to Budim, Jelacic returned them in 1850,
  Khuen Hedervary again moved them from Zagreb in
  1885, returned in 1956-60.

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Baska slab, end of 11th century
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Third line of The Baska slab
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A few facts about Baska slab

• Episode with the British prince Philip
• HAZU
• second B. slab
• Zvonimir, Hrvat
• The Book of Kells
• upside-down

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Muniment of the famousDragoslav

• January 1, 1100.
• Dobrinj, Vrbnik
• a 16th century copy
• Va ime Hristovo amen...
• in hrvaškom jeziku
• literary, legal importance

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Cro. Glagolitic in BiH

• 12th century, Manastirište, N-W of BiH
• Radinu...
• Contemporary to Baska tablet

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Glagolitic Script u Slavonia 12th/13th centuries
(?)
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Istarski razvod

• 1275 to 1395, 1546 copy on 53 pp.
• žlahtni ljudi
• hrvacko ime (23 times), dežele pisar
• had important role in deciding for Istria to be
  included in the former state

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Vinodol Code

• 1288, 17 pp, 75 articles
• after Rus Pravda the oldest legal codex among
  Slavs
• likuf (feast), moral protection of women
• at least 9 european translations (in 19th cent.
  into Russian, Polish, French)

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Missal of Duke Novak

• 1368
• Duke Novak Disislavic
• Krbava, Lika
• value - of an estate of a nobleman
• National Library in Vienna
• inscription of deacon Juraj from Roc, 1482

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Rules of St. Benedict

• 60 leaves, Archives of HAZU, 13th (or 14th)
  century
• probably the oldest translation into vernacular
  language
• Benedictines had to know the Rules by heart (120
  pp)

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Vrbnik statute

• 1388 (the oldest part from 1362)
• Senj statute 1388, Veprinac 1507, Kastav 1590,
  Mošcenice statute from 1673
• The last three statutes published first in Russia
  in 19th century, and then in Zagreb

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Breviary of Vitus of Omišalj

• 1396, written for Roc in Istria
• National library in Vienna (former Royal Library)
• 600 years in 1996
• Branko Fucic
• vellum 3 flocks of 40 sheep
• Cro. Cyrillic, Latin

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George de Slavonie

• 14th-15th century
• Brežice, Sorbonne, Tours
• Chateau de virginite
• Istria eadem patria Charwati
• Alphabetum Charwaticum
• Paval dijak z Krbave

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Our Father (written by George)
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Evangelier duReims

• 1395, Texte du Sacre
• Prague, Constantinople, Reims
• Texte du Sacre (book of consecration),
• L. Tandaric, s. A. Pantelic, B. Fucic
• Louis XIII, Louis XIV
• Que sais je?

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Hrvoje missal

• 1404, missal of Hrvoje Vukcic Hrvatinic
• Topkapi Sarayi, Constantinople, 94 illuminations,
  380 initials
• was in King Corvins library in Budim (under
  Turks since 1526)
• Hval missal, Croatian cyrillic, Bologna

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New York missal

• 1400-1410, region of Zadar, or Lika - Krbava
• Thomas Phillips
• desserts of manuscripts
• Henrik Birnbaum
• Otto Sagner Verlag, Munich, 1977
• Andrew Corin, UCLA

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1st Vrbnik missal

• 1456.
• Initial of letter B
• Vrbnik
• exhibited in Dublin in 2000/01.

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2nd Vrbnik missal

• 1463.
• 1 leaf in Princeton, USA
• Vrbnik - Glagolitic town
• Blaž Baromic, broken ligatures
• Vrbnik (and Dobrinj) mentioned in January 1, 1100.

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Hum breviary

• 1442, Istria
• Metropolitana library in Zagreb
• Roc abecedarium, around 1200
• Hum graffitto, 12th century
• Glagolitic heritage in Istria

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Croatian Glagolitic Script in BiH

• Radoslav collection (1443), Banja Luka (1471)

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1483 incunabulum

• Editio princeps
• 28 years after Gutenberg
• 11 preserved copies the Vatican, Moscow,
  Washington (Library of Congress), Vienna, Zagreb

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Printing in 15th century

• J. Gutenberg, 1455
• 40000 titles of incun., 260 towns (Senj)
• 10 million printed incunabulae
• 1483 - the first Croatian printed book
• 1495 - Lectionary of Bernardin from Split
• Croats participated in prep. of 150 incun.

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Baromics Senj missal

• 1494., Senj
• 214 leaves
• Budapest, St. Petersburg, Cres (147 leaves),
  Odessa (frag.)
• 7 glagolitic books

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2nd Novi breviary

• 1495, initial R, 500 vellum leaves (i.e. 1000
  pp), 10 kg.
• battle on the Krbava field 1493
• rev. Martinacs note about the tragedy

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Rijeka printing house of Šimun Kožicic

• 1530-1531, Rijeka,
• Šimun Kožicic Benja, bishop of Krbava -Modruš,
  born in Zadar
• abandons Church Slavonic lang. of Croatian
  redaction, and writes in Croatian
• planned a book about history of Croatia

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1527 Glagolitic primer

• Venice (copies Vienna, New York, Oxford, St
  Petersburg),
• glagolitic azbuka, from az to jest-je
• spelling, bubati
• Molitva Nedilna (Gospodnja), Zdravo Marie.
  Luxurious in European proportions.

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Glagolitic hermits in Blaca on the island of Brac

• 15. st.
• dokumenti

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Protestant printing house in Urach

• 1561-1565
• 30 titles in 25600 copies
• Stipan Konzul Istranin, Antun Dalmatin
• Crobatische Buchstaben

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Karaman missal

• 1741, Rome, Matej Karaman
• russification (in fact rutenisation) of Croatian
  glagolitic
• fall of the Glagolitic
• Rafael Levakovic (1631 missal), 1688 breviary
• Juranic, Paštric, Gocinic

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Parcic missal

• 1893, ukrainisation abandoned
• need for missals and breviaries
• Croatian-Italian dictionary, brzoglas
• Vajs missal 1927
• 2nd Vatican synod 1962-1965

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