The Hrvoje's Missal ( sh, Hrvojev misal) is a 15th-century missal written in
Glagolitic alphabet
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 ...
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History
This liturgical book was written in
Split
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Arts, entertai ...
by the resident
calligrapher
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and glagolitic scribe Butko in 1404 for
Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić (
Kotor
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around 1350–1416) who was a Viceroy of
Croatia
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, Grand Duke of
Bosnia and a Herzog of
Split
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[Hrvoje's Missal ~ 1403-1404](_blank)
/ref> Hrvoje Vukčić was the most prominent member of the House of Hrvatinić
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and the strongest of the three main large feudalists of early feudal medieval Bosnia, who in addition held lands and titles in Croatia and Hungary.Ferdo Šišić, Vojvoda Hrvoje Vukcic Hrvatinic i njegovo doba. (1350-1416) s jednim tlorisom i zemljovidom te s cetiri redoslovne table
pp. 92-
Description
This document is both dedicated to Hrvoje Vukčić, and is of great significance to Croatian and Bosnian history.
Hrvoje's Missal found its way to
Istanbul
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and is currently kept at the
Topkapı Palace Museum Manuscript Library. The knowledge of its existence was lost, until it was mentioned by linguists
Vatroslav Jagic, L. Thallóczy and F. Wickhoff in the 19th Century. The book's location in the
Topkapi Palace was determined by the art historian Mara Harisijadis in 1963. Once bound in precious covers, from 19th century Hrvoje's Missal is in
leather
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binding. It contains 247 folios, which includes 96
miniatures and 380
initial
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s and many more small initials. Some details are made of golden leaves. It is written in two columns on 488 pp (22.5x31 cm), and contains also some
music notation
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. Some
initials
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contain architectural elements of the
Dalmatian city of Split. The peculiarity and particular value of the Hrvoje's Missal lies in its combination of eastern and
western
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principles in terms of composition and contents, thus making it a truly invaluable work with a place in the regional and transregional history of art.
See also
*
Glagolitic alphabet
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 ...
*
Hval Manuscript
References
* V. Jagić - L. Thalloczy - F. Wickhoff
Missale glagoliticum Hervoiae ducis Spalatensis Wien, 1891.
* Glagoljski misal Hrvoja Vukčića (fototipsko izdanje), Staroslavenski institut-Mladinska knjiga-Akademische Druck - u. Verlagsanstalt, Zagreb-Ljubljana-Graz, 1973.
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15th-century illuminated manuscripts
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Topkapı Palace
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