11 centuries of Croatian Glagolitic Books Darko ubrini

11 centuries of Croatian Glagolitic Books Darko Žubrinić prepared in July 2001. www. hr/hrvatska/Croatia-HCS. html

Importance of the Glagolitic • Pope Paul VI. • Church-liturgical, Ecumenic meaning • historical • legal documents • art • music (glag. sing. ) • literary (Marulić, Zoranić) • • • printing, palaegoraphy educative international representative scientific (Slovo) Z. Črnja, E. Hercigonja

Krk slab (10 th or 11 th century) Se zida Maj opat, Radonja, Rugota, Dobroslav

Valun tablet (10 th or 11 th century) Baka Tjeha, sin Bratohna, unuk Juna

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

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

Baska slab, end of 11 th century

Third line of The Baska slab

A few facts about Baska slab • Episode with the British prince Philip • HAZU • second B. slab • Zvonimir, Hrvat • “The Book of Kells” • upside-down

Muniment of the “famous Dragoslav” • • January 1, 1100. Dobrinj, Vrbnik a 16 th century copy “Va ime Hristovo amen. . . ” • in “hrvaškom jeziku” • literary, legal importance

Cro. Glagolitic in Bi. H • 12 th century, Manastirište, N-W of Bi. H • Radinu. . . • Contemporary to Baska tablet

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

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

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 19 th cent. into Russian, Polish, French)

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

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

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

Breviary of Vitus of Omišalj • 1396, written for Roč in Istria • National library in Vienna (former Royal Library) • 600 years in 1996 • Branko Fučić • vellum: 3 flocks of 40 sheep • Cro. Cyrillic, Latin

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

Our Father (written by George)

Evangelier du Reims • 1395, Texte du Sacre • Prague, Constantinople, Reims • Texte du Sacre (book of consecration), • L. Tandarić, s. A. Pantelić, B. Fučić • Louis XIII, Louis XIV • Que sais je?

Hrvoje missal • 1404, missal of Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić • Topkapi Sarayi, Constantinople, 94 illuminations, 380 initials • was in King Corvin’s library in Budim (under Turks since 1526) • Hval missal, Croatian cyrillic, Bologna

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

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

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

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

Croatian Glagolitic Script in Bi. H Radoslav collection (1443), Banja Luka (1471)

1483 incunabulum • Editio princeps • 28 years after Gutenberg • 11 preserved copies: the Vatican, Moscow, Washington (Library of Congress), Vienna, Zagreb

Printing in 15 th 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.

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

2 nd Novi breviary • 1495, initial R, 500 vellum leaves (i. e. 1000 pp), ~10 kg. • battle on the Krbava field 1493 • rev. Martinac’s note about the tragedy

Rijeka printing house of Šimun Kožičić • 1530 -1531, Rijeka, • Šimun Kožičić 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

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.

Glagolitic hermits in Blaca on the island of Brač • 15. st. • dokumen ti

Protestant printing house in Urach • 1561 -1565 • ~30 titles in 25600 copies • Stipan Konzul Istranin, Antun Dalmatin • Crobatische Buchstaben

Karaman missal • 1741, Rome, Matej Karaman • russification (in fact rutenisation) of Croatian glagolitic • fall of the Glagolitic • Rafael Levaković (1631 missal), 1688 breviary • Juranić, Paštrić, Gocinić

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

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