After the Council of Trent, Pope Gregory XIII and Croatian Glagolitic priests recognised the need for printing new Glagolitic liturgical books, but in a language as close as possible to …
2019 Pročitaj više →THE PROTESTANT PRINTING HOUSE IN URACH
From 1561 to 1565, Urach, a small Württemberg town near Tübingen, was home to a Croatian Protestant printing house, which operated under the name Windische, chrabatische und cirulische Thrukerey. It …
2019 Pročitaj više →THE PRINTING HOUSE IN RIJEKA
The Glagolitic printing house in Rijeka started operating in the first half of the 16th century, on the initiative of the Bishop of Modruš Šimun Kožičić Benja, the descendant of …
2019 Pročitaj više →THE SENJ PRINTING HOUSE
The printing house in Senj operated from 1494 to 1508, with intervals of inactivity. During this period, it published at least seven books: two liturgical works, five Croatian translations of …
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About the Exhibition
The Croatian Glagolitic Heritage online exhibition was prepared together with a homonymous exhibition put on at the National and University Library in Zagreb from 6 November to 15 December 2018. …
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“Croatian Glagolitic Heritage”: NSK Exhibition Spotlighting the Gems of Croatia’s Cultural History
(post published at the Portal of the National and University Library in Zagreb, 7 Nov 2019) On 6 November 2018, the National and University Library in Zagreb hosted the …
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The Exhibition Catalogue
Title: Hrvatska glagoljica / Croatian Glagolitic script / Sandi Antonac et al. ; translation by Ivana Čagalj and Nikola Dubović ; with photographs by Renata Breka et al. Publication Details: …
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“Croatian Glagolitic Heritage”, NSK exhibition spotlighting the foundations of Croatian Culture
(article published in the 15th issue of “The Voice of NSK”, the journal of the National and University Library in Zagreb) From 6 November to 15 December 2018, the …
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The “Croatian Glagolitic Heritage” project
The Croatian Glagolitic Heritage project was initiated by the National and University Library in Zagreb, through its cooperation with other Croatian academic and heritage institutions. It is conducted by the …
2019 Pročitaj više →Video Tutorial: Learning to Write in Glagolitic
The video tutorial shows a simulation of the correct writing of the Glagolitic letters. The animated tutorial presents the order and direction in which horizontal and vertical lines, along with …
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Pronouncing the letters of the Glagolitic alphabet
Each letter of the Glagolitic alphabet is also used as a number, and has its symbolic meaning as well. The first nine letters, az, buky, vjedi, glagoljo, dobro, jest, živeti, …
2019 Pročitaj više →THE EUROPEAN HORIZONS OF GLAGOLITIC LITERACY
The Glagolitic script has been woven into Croatian cultural history from the very beginning of movable type printing in Europe until today. Stored in collections and libraries in Croatia and …
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Few nations have defined a unique world of letters, few worlds of letters have defined a nation. A nation and its letters, the letters and the nation, bound by a …
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THE RENAISSANCE OF THE CROATIAN GLAGOLITIC SCRIPT AND GLAGOLITISM IN THE THIRD MILLENIUM
The history of Croats is written in Glagolitic script. Literally, it is – on one of the most famous sculptures by Ivan Meštrović, made in 1932, almost a century after …
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GLAGOLITIC CHANTING
Translation of the liturgical texts contained in Roman sacramentaries from Latin in the Old Church Slavic language, during the inculturation mission in Moravia and Pannonia, resulted in development of the …
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ARTIKULI (CONFESSIO AUGUSTANA) (1562)
Artikuli ili Deli prave stare krstianske vere, a Croatian translation, in the Glagolitic alphabet, of Philipp Melanchthon’s Augsburg Confession (Confessio Augustana) by Anton Dalmatin and Stipan Konzul, who significantly relied …
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THE CROATIAN MISSAL (1531)
The Croatian Missal (Misal hruacki) was the most visually attractive and comprehensive work of the printing house in Rijeka, which was managed by the Bishop of Modruš Šimun Kožičić Benja …
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THE SENJ GLAGOLITIC MISSAL (1494)
The Senj Glagolitic Missal (Senjski glagoljski misal), “by the law of the Roman court”, is the first of altogether seven books printed by the Senj printing house. This book is …
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MISSAL BY THE LAW OF THE ROMAN COURT (1483)
Missal by the Law of the Roman Court (Misal po zakonu rimskoga dvora) is the first Croatian book printed in the Croatian language, only 28 years after the completion of …
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THE PETRIS MISCELLANY (1468)
Apart from being the most important source of data on Croatian medieval literature, with its 350 leaves, the 1468 Petris Miscellany (Petrisov zbornik) is the most voluminous, and also the …
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GLAGOLITIC SCRIPT – PRINTED MATERIAL
The oldest printed books earned the name in which scarcely anybody will recognize the hidden metaphor. The 15th century in Europe saw the movable type printing of the books which …
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Glagoljica.hr online portal
The Glagoljica.hr online portal was set up with the aim of assembling in one place the digital reproductions of the works of Croatian Glagolitic heritage and make them available to …
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THE VRBNIK STATUTE (1388)
The Vrbnik Statute (Vrbnički statut) is the oldest legal document of the island of Krk. It dates from the period of reign of the affluent and influential Frankopan dukes, who …
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THE ISTRIAN BOOK OF BOUNDARIES (1275 – 1395)
The Istrian Book of Boundaries (Istarski razvod) is a legal document determining the boundaries (termeni i kunfini) between feudal lords and rural districts (komune). The manuscript documents the old Slavic legal …
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THE VINODOL CODE (1288)
The Vinodol Code (Vinodolski zakonik) is a collection of legal provisions written in the Glagolitic alphabet, containing altogether 77 articles. By accepting their duty towards the Krk dukes, the inhabitants …
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GLAGOLITIC SCRIPT – MANUSCRIPTS
The parchment and paper with printed Glagolitic letters testify to the durability and persistence of the script which is pretty special in the Croatian ethnic and linguistic space. The Glagolitic …
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GLAGOLITIC SCRIBES
In the mid-13th century Glagolitism gained legitimacy to coexist as a possibility in the Catholic Church, meaning that the Roman Rite liturgy could be performed equally in Latin and in …
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CROATIAN GLAGOLITIC EPIGRAPHY
As a part of archeology and as one of auxiliary sciences of history, epigraphy studies inscriptions and graffiti engraved, written or paired in some solid material (stone, metal, glass, brick, …
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THE TRACES OF THE LEGACY OF SAINTS CYRIL AND METHODIUS IN CROATIA
Shortly after the creation of the Christian culture based on the Glagolitic script and the Old Church Slavic language was finished by the end of the 9th century in Central …
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CROATIAN GLAGOLITIC SCRIPT
The oldest Croatian epigraphic monuments, and thousands of pages of the most valuable books and documents, written in Glagolitic script, bear witness to the longevity and the continuous development of …
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