Hrvoje's Missal

Hrvoje's Missal
Hrvojev misal

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Created 15th century
Location Split
Author(s) Butko
Purpose Glagolitic missal

The Hrvoje's Missal (Croatian: Hrvojev misal) is a 15th-century missal written in Glagolitic alphabet.[1]

History

Illumination of Hrvoje Vukčić (left) and his crest (right).

This liturgical book was written in Split by the resident calligrapher and glagolitic scribe Butko in 1404 for Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić (Kotor around 1350–1416) who was a Ban of Croatia, Grand Duke of Bosnia and a Herzog of Split.[2] Hrvoje Vukčić was the most prominent member of the House of Hrvatinić and the strongest of the three main large feudalists of early feudal medieval Bosnia,[1][3][4] who in addition held lands and titles in Croatia and Hungary.[5]

Description

This document is both dedicated to Hrvoje Vukčić, and are of great significance to Croatian and Bosnian history.[1][4] Hrvoje's Missal is kept at the Topkapı Palace Museum Manuscript Library in Istanbul). Once bound in precious covers, from 19th century Hrvoje's Missal is in leather binding. Hrvoje's Missal is considered as one of the most beautiful Croatian Glagolitic books. It contains 247 folios, which includes 96 miniatures and 380 initials 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. Some initials contain architectural elements of the Dalmatian city of Split. The particular value of the Hrvoje's Missal lies in its combination of eastern and western principles in terms of composition and contents, thus making it a truly deluxe work and securing it a place in the regional and transregional history of art.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Fine, John V. A. When Ethnicity Did Not Matter in the Balkans: A Study of Identity in Pre-Nationalist Croatia, Dalmatia, and Slavonia in the Medieval and Early-Modern Periods. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0472025600.
  2. ↑ Hrvoje's Missal ~ 1403-1404
  3. ↑ Fine, John V. A.; Fine, John Van Antwerp. The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0472082604.
  4. 1 2 Donia, Robert J.; Fine, John Van Antwerp. Bosnia and Hercegovina: A Tradition Betrayed. Hurst. ISBN 9781850652120.
  5. ↑ Ferdo Šišić, Vojvoda Hrvoje Vukcic Hrvatinic i njegovo doba. (1350-1416) s jednim tlorisom i zemljovidom te s cetiri redoslovne table pp. 92-
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