1. Austria: Vienna, Innsbruck, Schwarzau, Linz, Güssing, Graz
2. Bosnia-Hercegovina: Sarajevo (Zemaljski muzej), Fojnica (Muzej franjevackog samostana), Humac (Franjevacki muzej), Banja Luka (Muzej Bosanske krajine), Livno, and neighbourhood of Jajce (discovered in 1996).
3. Czech Republic: Praha, Sazava
4. Denmark: Copenhagen
5. France: Paris, Reims, Tours, Strasbourg
6. Germany: Berlin, Kassel, Weimar, Wertheim, Stuttgart, Magdeburg, München, Frankfurt am Main, Trier, Tübingen, Bamberg
7. Hungary: Budapest
8. Italy: Rome, Trento, Padova, Firenza, Sienna, Trieste, Cividale, Goriza
9. The Netherlands, Delft
10. Norway, Oslo
11. Poland: Krakow, Holesnica, Wroclaw
12. Portugal: Porto
13. Roumania: Sibiu
14. Russia: Moscow, St.Petersburg
15. Serbia and Montenegro: Belgrade
16. Slovakia: Martin
17. Slovenia: Ljubljana, Mojstrana, Hrastovlje, Kopar, Novo Mesto,
18. Spain: Madrid, Salamanca
19. Sweden: Uppsala
20. Switzerland: Basel
21. Turkey: Constantinople
22. Ukraine: Kiev, Odessa
23. United Kingdom: London, Cambridge, Oxford
24. USA: New York, Washington, Princeton
25. the Vatican

Croatian Glagolitic Manuscripts held outside of Croatia

SCATTERED HERITAGE... (Petar Zoranic, Mountains, 1569)

There is no doubt that anonymous creators of the Croatian Glagolitic Script of the angular type - Croatian Benedictines - were influenced by pre-Romanesque architecture (there existed about 150 pre-Romanesque and Romanesque Croatian churches, mostly along our littoral, built between the 9th and 12th centuries, of which 15 have been preserved completely). To see this, it suffices to have a look at a very nice, church-like Glagolitic letter L below. Comapare e.g. with the pre-Romanesque Church in Priko near Split, where the Glagolitic mass was served (in this region both Glagolitic and Cyrillic Script were in use). Glagolitic M looks like a fortress. Ligatures in our national Script (there are hundreds of them) often have the composition of real buildings (see e.g. ML below)! Initials of Croatian handwritten Missals and Breviaries are often beautifully painted and ornamented.

Except in Croatia itself, numerous Croatian Glagolitic manuscripts are held in 25 countries, in about 60 cities, mostly in national libraries and museums thoroughout Europe.

• The Princeton University Library, Princeton, USA, is in possession of one leaf of a beautiful Second Vrbnik Missal from 1462 (see a part of a page from the book on the right). The leaf is the only one missing from the book, cut out probably in the beginning of 20th century. After James O'Brien discovered it around 1970 in the library, he tried to get it back to Croatia, to the 2nd Vrbnik Missal where it used to be for centuries, but in vain.
  I owe this information to rev. Josip Kosic from the town of Vrbnik, dr. Marica Cuncic, and dr. Milan Mihaljevic. The leaf was named Garrett MS. 25 after a certain Robert Garrett (Magg Brothers from London) who donated it to the Library in 1942. Garrett purchased it probably no later than in 1920s. It would be nice to rename it to, say, Vrbnik MS 25. Many thanks to Mr. James O'Brien (Princeton) for his kind help. In 2002 I obtained a copy of the Princeton page from Marija Kraljic, Vrbnik (many thanks also to her colleagues in New Jersey):

  
  
  

• If you live in New York, we strongly recommend you a visit to The Pierpont Morgan Library where you will find a beautiful Croatian Glagolitic Missal there (1400-1410) - known as the New York Missal. It was reprinted by Verlag Otto Sagner, Munich in 1977.

  Crotian Glagolitic in the USA (in Croatian)

  However, the most beautiful specimens of this unique heritage of the Croatian culture are held in

• Turkey, Constantinople (Topkapi Saray, the library of the Turkish sultans), where you can see the famous Missal of Bosnian Duke Hrvoje Vukcic Hrvatinic, written in 1404 (reprinted jointly by Croatian and Austrian publishers), and in

  

• Austria, Vienna (National Library), where you can see
  • Missal of the Croatian duke Novak (1386),
  • the Roch Missal (1420),
  • Breviary of Vid from Omisalj (1396),
  • Quadriga of Simun Greblo (Istria),
  • the Frascic psalter (1463),
  • the Brozic breviary (1561; with 250 printed ligatures, which seem to be unique in the history of printing),
  • Vienna folia (11th century),
  • 2 leaves of the Marian Evangel (end of 10th century; 172 leaves are in Moscow).
  Out of five preserved samples of the Baromic breviary (1493 incunabulum) one is held in Schwarzau (Parma library; one is also in the Staatsbibliothek in München and in Sibiu in Roumania). A large number of Glagolitic fragments are kept in other Austrian towns: Güssing, Trier, Linz, Innsbruck. Two parchment leaves of the famous Cloz Glagolitic codex from the 11th century are held in Innsbruck. Another 12 leaves from the same codex are in the small commune library in Trento (Italy). As remarked by academician Branko Fucic, their illuminations with sea elements (like octopus; also connections with the beneventana style) indicate the codex was prepared in the Croatian south, near the sea. Originally, until the end of 15th century (i.e until the fall of the island of Krk under the Venetian rule), the book had 500 vellum leaves (i.e. 1000 pages), and was bound in gold and silver. Soon after that, only 14 pages of this luxurious book survived. Regarding Glagolitic manuscripts, we know of altogether 6 Glagolitic Missals and 9 Breviaries held in Austrian State libraries, written in the period between 10th to 15th centuries. They are described in the monograph of Gerhard Birkfellner: "Glagolitische und Kyrillische Handschriften in Österreich", Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, 1975.

• The famous Vatican Library possesses about a dozen of Croatian's earliest and most valuable Glagolitic Missals and Breviaries, and also some Croatian Cyrillic liturgical texts. The oldest extant Glagolitic Missal (Omisalj Missal, 14th century) is held there. Croatian handwritten glagolitic books kept in the Vatican apostolic library are described in [Dzurova, Stancev, Japundzic]:
  • Vat. Slav. 3,
  • Vat. Slav. 11, 14/15. st., glagolitic amulet, prayers,
  • Vat. Slav. 19, breviary,
  • Vat. Slav. 23, breviary,
  • Borg. illir. 4 (Borgiano illirico), middle of 14th century, missal,
  • Borg. illir. 5, middle of 14th century, breviary, part I,
  • Borg. illir. 6, 14th century (third quarter), breviary, part II,
  • Borg. illir. 8, 1435, missal,
  • Borg. illir. 9, 1445, "Zrcalo" (mirror) of deacon Luka from Vrbnik, spiritual readings, in Croatian vernacular,
  • Borg. illir. 10, 1485, breviary,
  • Borg. illir. 11, Confessional book, Antonino Pierozzi,
  • Borg. illir. 19, 20, 21, three copies of Brozic breviary, 1561,
  • Borg. illir. 22, breviary, 19th century,
  • Borg. illir. 23, I-III,
  • Cap. S. Pietro D215, 15th century.
  Among printed Croatian glagolitic books kept in the Vatican Library are two of 11 preserved copies of the earliest Croatian incunabulum (Missale Romanum) from 1483.

• Glagolitic books are held also in Rome, in St.Peter's Archives. An important Mavro's Breviary (written in Vrbnik on the island of Krk, 1460) has been bought from a private proprietor in Rome in 1982. One of the Croatian breviaries is held in Padova (1465) in the library of the Institute for Slavic Philology, and one from 14th century in Florence (Medici-Laurenziana biblioteca, sign. Plut. 1.10). The same institute in Padova has 18 Glagolitic documents. From the note written in the Tkon collection (¨1520) we know of a lost Glagolitic incunabulum (Ispovid opcena) printed in Bologna in 1492. In the commune library in Siena there are two Glagolitic manuscripts, one of which was presented by Alberto Fortis. The Archives of the Trieste bishopric possess the Croatian Glagolitic translation of the bull of Pope Gregory issued in Avignon in 1371 (see Vjekoslav Spincic's "Crtice iz hrvatske knjizevne kulture Istre", 1926, reprinted by KS, Zagreb 1984). Also the Municipal library in Trieste is in possession of Glagolitic books of the Brotherhood of Sv. Marija in Ugljan (i.e. Uljan, an island near Zadar) from 1617 to 1872. On the other hand, the book of the Brotherhood of St. Antun from Zabezac, parish of Dolina near Trieste, written from 1548 to 1642 (in the Glagolitic until 1610), is held in the State Archives in Zagreb. The Biblioteca Seminario Teologico in Goriza, Italy, is in possession of the Croatian "Manoscritto glagolitico." It is known that an outstanding Italian scholar Arturo Cronia, Rome, had a bunch of Croatian Glagolitic manuscripts in his possession, but we do not know anything about their content and destiny after his death.

• If you live in Berlin, Germany, then you can see the beautiful Berlin Missal (218 vellum leaves, i.e. 436 pages written by Bartol Krbavac in 1402), held in Staatsbibliothek (SBB-PK, Ms. Ham. 444). In 1624 a Zadar archbishop sent it to Congregatio di Propaganda Fide in Rome in order to prepare printed glagolitic books there. It is known that since 1808 the book was in Kensington House in London. As a part of the so called Hamilton Collection (named according to a Scottish collectionar Hamilton) it arrived from London to the Berlin State Library in 1882, where it is also today.
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  In Kassel, Germany, there is a fragment of Glagolitic missal (Kassel fragment) from 15th century. In Bamberg there is a Croatian glagolitic abecedarium from 16th century. There are several books published in the period of 1561-1564 by Croatian protestants, held among others in Stuttgart, Magdeburg, Basel, Frankfurt am Main.
  
  
• In Switzerland, in the Basel University Library, there is a Croatian Glagolitic manuscript (fragment), N I 2 Nr. 148b, formerly in possession of Franz Miklosic. It is mentioned in M. Cuncic's article: "The Collection of Microfilms and Prints of the Staroslavenski Zavod at Zagreb", in: Polata knigopisnaja 9 (1984) 30-38, here p. 31. A detailed description can be found in the monograph by Roland Marti: "Beschreibung der slavischen Handschriften in der Schweiz", Bern etc. 1991, 25-27. Many thanks to Professor Marti (Universität des Saarlandes) for this information.
  

• If you are a citizen of St. Petersburg in Russia, then you can see five complete codices and the important Bercic Collection, comprising 154 Croatian Glagolitic books and fragments (altogether 386 preserved folia), and 53 texts in cursive Croatian Glagolitic, written between the 13th and 16th centuries, including five codices. The collection was a result of many years of painstaking efforts of Glagolitic priest and academician Ivan Bercic (Zadar, 1824-1870). Bought by the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1874, it is held in the world famous Saltykov-Shchedrin Library (former Imperatorskaya publicnaya biblioteka, now Russian National Library). The Bercic collection represents the most important collection of Croatian Glagolitic heritage kept outside of Croatia, and contains remains of
  • 55 Glagolitic missals,
  • 77 breviaries and
  • 7 literary collections.
  A monograph about Bercic collection was written by Svetlana Olegovna Vjalova from the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg. The library possesses a sample of the first Croatian Glagolitic incunabulum from 1483 (i.e. a book printed in the earliest period of printing, before 1500), one of 11 preserved copies. The book is permanently exhibited in the Library, and is also a part of the Bercic collection. The remaining ten copies are
  • in Croatia (6),
  • The Vatican Library (2),
  • Vienna (National Library, 1)
  • and in Washington (The Library of Congress, 1).
  The best preserved copy is the one from the Bercic collection held in St. Petersburg. The Russian National Library possesses the largest collection of printed Croatian Glagolitic books in the world: altogether 43 titles in 101 copies. An outstanding specialist for printed Croatian Glagolitic books held in Russia is A.A. Kruming from Moscow. A part of Bercic's collection is a folder containing old cursive Glagolitic legal and other texts from Croatian littoral and islands, as yet unpublished. It is briefly described in the booklet [Vjalova 1982], and contains the the following:
  • 53 hadwritten cursive glagolitic texts (legal documents, prayers) from 1460 till 18th century, originating mostly from Croatian coast,
  • 10 documents texts in the the Croatian cyrillic (documents, prayers, letters), written between 1538 and 18th century,
  • 10 texts in the Latin script (letters, prayers, transliterations from the Glagolitic), written between 1555 and 19th century.
    
    

  Crotian glagolitic in Russia (in Croatian)

• In the Pierpont Library in New York there is a 1527 copy of the oldest known Croatian manual for children, printed in Venice in the Glagolitic script. Another three preserved copies are in Vienna (National Library), Oxford (Bodleian Library) and St. Petersburg (State Library).

• If you are a citizen of Moscow then you can see a fragment of handwritten Glagolitic breviary (1493) in the State Library (Gosudarstvennaya biblioteka), and an older Glagolitic breviary (250 folia), written in 1442-43 (bought in 1860 from the Turks by the Russian archeologist Sevastyanov for the Rumyancin library in Moscow). A Russian scientist A.A. Kruming published a catalogue of printed Croatian Glagolitic books.

• In various libraries in Budapest, Hungary, there are about 10 valuable Croatian Glagolitic manuscripts from the early period - 12th to 15th centuries. Of particular importance is the 12th century ``Budapest Glagolitic fragment'' held in the Hungarian National Library. In a University library there is also a number of Glagolitic fragments. In the Szeczenyi Library you can see the best preserved incunabulum of the Baromic Missal, printed in the Croatian town of Senj in 1494 (bought by Hungarians in Graz in the 19th century, for the huge sum corresponding to 150,000 DM, information by dr Antonija Zaradija Kis). Only 3 copies have been preserved, one of them is in the Saltykov-Shchedrin Library in St.Petersburg (Russia).

• If you live in Prague, then you can see about 20 Croatian Glagolitic manuscripts from 14th to 15th centuries in the library of Narodni Muzeum. In "Narodni a univerzitetni knihovna" (National and University library) you can see the Kirin Croatian Glagolitic psalter, known also as Lobkowitz Glagolitic psalter, according to one of its proprietors in Czechia (1359), written by Kirin from Lika - Krbava region. The National library also has a monumental Czech Glagolitic Bible from 1416 (38x29 cm), where the copiests found it important to state that "the book was was not written by Croat monks, but by Czech monks". The Bible written in the Czech Church Slavonic language and in Croatian Glagolitic is an interesting trace of Croatian culture in Czechia. If you visit an important Czech benedictine convent of Sazava (now museum) built in 11th century, 60 km from Prague, then you will have opportunity to see a room dedicated to the activities of Croatian benedictines in Prague in 14th century. There we can read that Évangelier de Reims (or Texte du Sacre, written by Croatian monks in Prague in 1395), was a book with which for centuries French kings were sworn in. One of them was Louis XIV.

  Croatian glagolitic in Czechia (in Croatian)

• If you visit Martin in Slovakia, you can see Hlaholske listi Hlohovske (2 folia), that were previously in Hlohovac.

• Citizens of Paris can see several Croatian Glagolitic collections in Bibliothéque Nationale. Two exceptionally important Glagolitic codices are held there: Code Slave 11 (14th century) containing the oldest known collection of Croatian religious lyrics, and Liber horarum (1317). Simun Kozicic Benja, the Krbava-Modrus bishop, founded his glagolitic printing house in the town of Rijeka in 1530. One of 6 published books was Knizice krsta, printed in 1531. Only two copies exist today: one in Paris (Bibliothéque Nationale, sign. 49.052), and the other in Sankt Petersburg (The State Library, sign. No 3093). The only copy of the earliest printed book in the Croatian Cyrillic (1512, prepared by Franjo Ratkovic from Dubrovnik) is also held in Bibliothéque Nationale.

  

• An important heritage of the Glagolitic writing written by George de Slavonie (14th century) is held in the Bibliotheque Municipale of Tours in France.

• In London you can also see a Croatian Breviary from the 15th century and the London fragment from the 13th century, a copy Missal of Pavao Modrušani printed in 1528.
  • Croatian Glagolitic heritage via the British library (in Croatian)
  • Croatian Collections in The British Library

• In the town of Sibiu u Roumania there a several preserved copies of the Missal of Pavao Modrusanina from 1528. g.
  
  

• Very old and valuable Glagolitic manuscripts (at least six codices) and fragments can be seen in Oxford in the Bodleian Library. There is the Oxford breviary from 1310, two Oxford Glagolitic missals from 14th century, the Oxford collection from 15th century (among its proprietors was Alberto Fortis). It also possesses some Croatian Cyrillic manuscripts.

• A citizen of Copenhagen can see a Glagolitic abecedarium and a 15th century Croatian Glagolitic Missal in Det Kongelige Bibliotek (Royal Library).

• In Delft, The Netherlands, there are several Croatian glagolitic books: Tranzit sv. Jeronima (1508., The Senj Glagolitic Printing House), and the glagolitic Katekizam printed in 1561. in the protestant printing house in Urach (as well as the Katekizam printed the same year the same place in cyrillic characters). These are the only known items of Katekizam in the world. The books are kept in Delft and belong to private collection of Mr. Ivan Dubravcic. In his collection there are also some other Croatian glagolitic books:
  • Nauk karstjanski kratak (1628);
  • Azbukividnjak (1629);
  • Bukvar (1753);
  • Ispravnik (1635);
  • Brevijar rimski (1648);
  • Brevijar rimski (1791).

• Any citizen of Oslo, Norway, can have a look on a beautiful vellum leaf from the island of Krk, early 15th century, held in the National Library, The Schoyen Collection, MS 1391 . One of its proprietors was Jeremy Griffits, Oxford. For more information see here. The Schoyen collection has two glagolitic vellums that are a part of the Rules of a Lay Fraternity on Krk. The rules mention the nobility of Frankapans (prince Mikula and his princess Dorotea), islands of Rab, Cres, and towns of Senj, Rijeka. The Schoyen collection possesses three Croatian manuscripts in Latin and in Latin script from 11th, 12th and 13th centuries, probably from the famous Zadar scriptorium. My sincere gratitude goes to Mr. Martin Schoyen, Norway, for his kind help.

  Croatian Glagolitic heritage in Norway (in Croatian)

• The University Library of Uppsala, Sweden, is in possesion three Croatian glagolitic books:
  • the Brozic Missal from 1561, printed in Venice (sign. Ksl 131), unique in the history of printing for its enormous amount of ligatures (250 of them!),
  • Juan Polanco (?),
  • Ispravnik za erei ispovidnici, printed in Rome in 1635.
  Also, in the Royal Library of Stockholm (Kungliga biblioteket) there is a huge Czech book Gigas Librorum from the 13th century, which in the 14th century was in Prague. It was due to the Croatian glagolites in Prague that the Croatian glagolitic alphabet had been written on the inner part of the cover page. I express my gratitude to Mr. Zdenko Naglic, Göteborg, for this information.

• The public library in Porto (Portugal) has a Glagolitic book of Lenton readings dated 1460 (Biblioteca Publica Municipal, Ms 639-14-3-12).

• The famous Escorial near Madrid (Spain) is in possession of a Glagolitic Missal, which is exhibited there (about 30x40 cm). The author of these lines would deeply appreciate any additional information, like the approximate time and place of its appearance. Also, a coffer with Croatian Glagolitic manuscripts (15th-16th century) is held in Salamanca.

• A fragment containing three parchment leaves of the Croatian Glagolitic Missal from the 14th century is held in the Jagiellon Library in Krakow. In the year of 1380 Konrad the II-nd, the prince of Olesnica (he belonged to Silesian line of Piast, the first Polish monarch family) founded a Glagolitic monastery in Olesnica town in Silesia province of Poland. Ten years later, in 1390, Jadwiga, the Polish queen and Wladyslaw Jagiello (Vladislaus Jagiello), her husband and, thanks of that, the Polish king (Jadwiga was polish queen before she married the Great Lituanian Prince - Wladyslaw Jagiello), they founded a monastery (similar to that in Olesnica) under the invocation of The Saint Cross. It was established in Kleparz, the quarter of Krakow. Glagolitic liturgy existed there for about 100 years. That fact is described in: Jan Dlugosz (Ioannes Longinus; Ioannis Dlugosch) "Annales seu cronicae incliti Regni Poloniae" called also " Historia Polonica", or, as that in XVIIIth Century "Annales Poloniae Ioannis Dlugosch ad annum 1406" (one can find it in Czartoryski Library in Krakow, signature 1306). Queen Jadwiga was the daugter of the Polish king Ludwik Wegierski (Ludovig the Hungarian), the son of Elzbieta Lokietkowna (Elizabeth, the daughter of the Polish king Lokietek). Queen Jadwiga's mother was indeed the princess Elzbieta Bosniaczka, that is, Elizabeth of Bosnia. In Poland there is only a small piece of the Glagolitic missal, called Fragmenta Glagolitica, which is stored in the Krakow Jagiellonian Library, sign. 5567. Fire in 1584 damaged the monastery and all Glagolitic manuscripts.
  My sincere gratitude goes to Professor Halina Watrobska, Slavonic Department of the University of Gdansk, Poland, who sent me the above information.
  We know of the Krakov fragment, a remain of the Croatian glagolitic missal from the 12th century (see Eduard Hercigonja, his article in [Croatia and Europe], volume I, p 390])>
  Several Glagolitic books issued by Croatian protestants in the period of 1561-1564 are held in the University Library in Wroclaw.

• If you are a citizen of Bosnia-Herzegovina, then you can see some Glagolitic monuments Sarajevo, Fojnica, Humac and Banja Luka. An important stone Croatian Glagolitic monument from the 11/12th centuries, held in the city museum in Banja Luka, has very probably been destroyed. A Glagolitic monument has been found near Jajce in 1996.
  
  

• In Yugoslavia, in Belgrade, there is a copy of Tabla za dicu (Glagolitic primer for children), issued in 1561 by Croatian protestants in Tübingen in Germany. This information is from 1938. We know that until 1982. hte only known sample of Tranzita sv. Jerolima (1508) from the famous Senj Glagolitic Printing House was in Belgrade (as a part of the Nikola Pasic's library, it is not known how it arrived there).

• If you live in Ljubljana (Slovenia), then you can see some hundred Croatian Glagolitic manuscripts and books, remains of breviaries and missals from 13th to 15th centuries, mostly in the National and University library. Other remains of Croatian Glagolitic heritage are in Mojstrana, Hrastovlje, Kopar (including its hinterland - Zanigrad, Predloka, Korte, Gazon, Puce, Pomjan, Pridvor, Crni Kal), and Novo Mesto, and elsewhere:
  • The Beram Missal of Bartol Krbavac, around 1425,

    

  • the Ljubljana homiliary (fragment of a breviary), National Library of Ljubljana, (12th century),
  • Kamnje (near Nova Gorica), Kamenski glagolitic manuscript from 1583.
  • Dornberk (Koparska biskupija), glagolitic inscription Juri pop 1574
  • Glagolitic inscriptions around Kopar and Skofja Loka
  Two fragments from Croatian glagolitic manuscripts (15th century), kept in the National Library in Ljubljana (many thanks to dr. Antonija Zaradija Kis, Zagreb):

  Two Croatian glagolitic books kept in the National Library of Ljubljana:

• If you are a citizen of Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, then you can see the richest collection of Glagolitic books and manuscripts in the world, held in the Archives of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Also, a very rich and valuable collection is held in the National and University Library in Zagreb. A smaller collection is held in the Glagolitic Monastery of St Xaver in Zagreb and in the Municipal Library. In Zagreb there is also a professional institution - Staroslavenski zavod, whose main objective is to study very rich Croatian Glagolitic heritage.

For additional information about Croatian Glagolitic manuscripts outside of Croatia see [Nazor].

Croatian Glagolitic Missals and Breviaries

The author of these lines has collected the names of Croatian Glagolitic breviaries and missals (the approximate number, considerably smaller, was known already to Rudolf Strohal in 1915, but to my knowledge, the complete list of titles was never published on one place). The usual names of breviaries and missals are given. For some of them I do not know where they are held. I would appreciate any additional information. Only about 30 breviaries and 20 missals are known that are completely preserved, while the rest are fragments. Here is the list of 16 (almost) completely preserved Croatian Church Slavonic Missale Plenums (see [Corin, p. 265]):

1. Illirico 4, (Vatican Apostolic Library), after 1317, the oldest known completely preserved Croatian missal

2. Illirico 8 (Vatican Library), 1441
3. First Oxford Missal, Oxford, Bodleian Library, undated
4. Second Oxford Missal, Oxford, Bodleian Library, undated
5. Missal from Roch, Vienna, Austrian National Library, after 1420
6. Missal of Prince Novak, Vienna, Austrian National Library, 1386
7. Copenhagen Missal, Royal Library, Copenhagen, undated
8. First Ljubljana Missal, Ljubljana, Nacionalna in univerzitetna knjiznica, undated
9. Second Ljubljana Missal, Ljubljana, Nacionalna in univerzitetna knjiznica, after 1420
10. Berlin Missal, Berlin, State Library, 1402
11. First Missal from Vrbnik, Vrbnik, parish archives, 1456
12. Second Missal from Vrbnik, Vrbnik Parish archives, 1463
13. Missal from Novi, Novi, parish archives, undated
14. Missal of Hrvoje Vukcic Hrvatinic, Istanbul, The Library of Turkish Sultans, Topkapi Sarayi, 1404
15. New York Missal, The Pierpont Morgan Library, second quarter of 15th century
16. Editio princeps (the first Croatian incunabulum), 1483

The list that follows is indeed impressive.

It is interesting that The Bercic Glagolitic collection in St. Petersburg only contains remains of as many as 55 missals and 77 breviaries from 13th to 16th centuries.

I believe that even this very fragmentary review illustrates more than enough spiritual and material power of Croatian glagolites in the period until 16th century, when the penetration of Turkish Ottoman Empire to Croatian lands resulted in their considerable empoverishent.

Croatian glagolitic heritage in

• world's libraries (in Croatian)
• Norway (in Croatian)
• USA (in Croatian)
• Russia (in Croatian)
• Czechia (in Croatian)

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