Glagolic
Glagolitic script about the letter, wheel, road & traveler …
Vrbnik is a fount of Glagolitic script, world champion in number of Glagolitic monuments, a place where you always nurtured Glagolitism …
“Script discovers a bit of Eternal Light in man, it is a heavenly order and a language of ideas, reading the sky and detect symbols”.
This is a sign soaked theological and archetypal meanings and also stave for Glagolitic letters that are enrolled in vrbnik holiest chapter Glagolitic. Some other wheels brought to Vrbnik and Vrbnik’s Wheel on a journey through space and time, but also around the – around the labyrinth of Vrbnik’s narrow streets, where every little house and gutter are letters which we read the city …
Holders of the Croatian-Glagolitic heritage in Vrbnik and Krk were Vrbnik Glagolitic priests. It is known that the village Archdiocese in Vrbnik was regularly very numerous. In the liturgy as well as in public and private life were used exclusively in the Croatian language and Glagolitic script. From Vrbnik has emerged the largest number of manuscripts, not only liturgical (missals, breviaries, …), but also others, among which occupy various collections and Glagolitic notary books. Throughout history, many of these manuscripts disappeared, but with all that to this day has preserved about 105 Glagolitic texts that were created in Vrbnik or in any way connected with Vrbnik; kept in Vrbnik or in world libraries (Zagreb, Rome, Moscow, Oxford and elsewhere).
In support of this we will cite here a few historical data. For example, deacon Luka in 1445, wrote Mirror (located in the Vatican Library iliir. 9) – “pop to Gregory in Vrbnica” (Antiquities 33, 202); žakan Blaz Baromić wrote in Vrbnik pop Mavar of 1460 years. They were written and probably I Vrbnik breviary (13-14. C., The oldest preserved Glagolitic codex Croatian redaction), brevijaria fragments from the 13th century, II Vrbnik breviary from the 14th century., III Vrbnik breviary from the 15th century. And II Vrbnik Missal from 1462, which is decorated with beautiful initials and miniatures. Code Dialog St. Pope Gregory and St. Augustine (17th c.) Was written in Vrbnik. Pop Gregory Žašković wrote in 1526 Vrbanski Vrbnik (Krk) statute. Omišaljski navigable said during the visitation in 1617 that gave rewrite catechism in Vrbnik. More info on www.ancientscripts.com/glagolitic.htm