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Book/Printed Material The Krtíš Glagolitic Fragment.

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Title

  • The Krtíš Glagolitic Fragment.

Summary

  • This manuscript fragment contains part of an explanation of an unknown gospel. It was at one time bound into a Glagolitic copy of the manuscript book Historia Scholastica by Peter Comestor. The text of the fragment was written in the angular Glagolitic script invented during the ninth century by Saints Cyril and Methodius to translate the Bible and other ecclesiastical works into the language of the Great Moravia region. Around 1633 the folio was used to fill the book binding of the Czech translation of Pastorale Lutheri (The pastoral of Luther) by Conrad Porta. It was discovered by Samuel Zoch (1882--1928) in the Kálmár family library in the town of Veľký Krtíš in southern Slovakia. Samuel Zoch's brother, Ivan Branislav Zoch, gave the text to Professor Vatroslav Jagič (1838--1923), one of the founders of the field of Croatian linguistic studies. Jagič proved the authenticity of the parchment and hypothesized that it was brought to the historical territory of Slovakia by Czechs living in exile after the Battle of White Mountain (1620). In 1930, Professor František Ryšánek (1877--1969) announced that the manuscript dated back to the turn the 15th century and indicated the Emmaus Monastery in Prague (the monastery of Croatian Benedictines at Slovany) as the place of the origin.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1375 to 1425]

Headings

  • -  Czech Republic--Prague
  • -  1375 to 1425
  • -  Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc
  • -  Bible. New Testament

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 folio : parchment ; 365 x 250 millimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: Slovak National Library.
  • -  Content in Church Slavic.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021668022

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

The Krtíš Glagolitic Fragment. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1425, 1375] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021668022/.

APA citation style:

(1375) The Krtíš Glagolitic Fragment. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1425] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021668022/.

MLA citation style:

The Krtíš Glagolitic Fragment. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1425, 1375] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021668022/>.