Acta Croatica is a collection of

Croatia , image_flag = Flag of Croatia.svg , image_coat = Coat of arms of Croatia.svg , anthem = "Lijepa naša domovino"("Our Beautiful Homeland") , image_map = , map_caption = , capit ...

n medieval public and private legal documents written in

Glagolitic The Glagolitic script (, , ''glagolitsa'') is the oldest known Slavic alphabet. It is generally agreed to have been created in the 9th century by Saint Cyril, a monk from Thessalonica. He and his brother Saint Methodius were sent by the Byzan ...

, Cyrillic and Latin scripts, important for the study of Croatian medieval history and the history of Croatian.

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The collection contains documents of Croatian medieval history from the beginning of 12th to the end of the fifteenth century. Its first edition was prepared by

Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski (29 May 1816 – 1 August 1889) was a Croatian historian, politician and writer, most famous for the first speech delivered in Croatian before the Parliament. Considered a renowned patriot, Kukuljević was a proponent of ...

who published it in 1863 in the

JAZU The Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts ( la, Academia Scientiarum et Artium Croatica, hr, Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti, abbrev. HAZU) is the national academy of Croatia. HAZU was founded under patronage of the Croatian bishop Jo ...

series ''Monumenta spectantia historiam Slavorum meridionalium'' (Vol. 1). The new edition of ''Acta Croatica'' was prepared by

Đuro Šurmin Đuro Šurmin (September 4, 1867 – March 22, 1937) was a Croatian literary historian and politician. Biography He was born in Sišćani. He studied Slavic Studies, Classical Studies and philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb si ...

who published it in 1898 in the Academy's series '' Monumenta historico-juridica Slavorum meridionalium'' (from 1100 to 1499, Vol 6, book 1). Despite the enormous contribution to the study of Croatian medieval history, both editions of ''Acta Croatica'' do not conform to accepted scientific standards of critical publications of medieval sources. For example, Kukuljević-Sakcinski arbitrarily transliterated Glagolitic script documents to Latin script for which he felt that their originals were written in Glagolitic. In Šurmin's edition, which sought to be the corrected and updated edition of Kukuljević-Sakcinski's ''Acta Croatica'', all of the Glagolitic and Latin script documents were printed in Cyrillic script. Since both editions have a variety of diplomatic and linguistic errors, and readings are often unreliable and do not conform to modern principles of publishing critical editions of medieval documents, Yugoslav Academy decided to publish a new edition of ''Acta Croatica'' in accordance with critical palaeographic, linguistic, transliteration and diplomatic principles for publications of medieval sources. In 1917 this task was entrusted to the linguist

Stjepan Ivšić Stjepan Ivšić (; 13 August 1884 – 14 January 1962) was a Croatian linguist, Slavic specialist, and accentologist. Biography After finishing primary school in Orahovica, he attended secondary school in Osijek and Požega. At the Faculty of Ph ...

, who critically processed much of the material, which was also expanded with newly discovered documents to 1541. Since the early 1970s, Ivšić's work was continued by

Josip Bratulić Josip Bratulić (born 2 February 1939) is a Croatian philologist and a historian of literature and culture. He was born in Sveti Petar u Šumi. He attended a gymnasium in Pazin, graduating in Croatian studies and comparative literature at the Fac ...

and Miroslav Kurelac. The first volume of Acta Croatica, edited by Bratulić, was published in 2017.

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