Baška tablet

The Baska tablet (Croatian: Bašćanska ploča ) is one of the oldest and most famous cultural monuments of the Croatian language and history. She comes from the chapel of St. Lucy in Jurandvor near Baska on Krk Island and is dated to the year 1100.

Content and meaning

The Baska tablet was originally the left part of the altar rail in the pre-Romanesque chapel of Sv. Lucija. They found was the 99.5 cm × 199 cm large stone tablet in the 19th century, and since 1934 she is kept in the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zagreb. In the chapel of St. Lucija, a copy of the board to the public.

The inscription is written in Glagolitic script, they documented that the Croatian king Zvonimir Dmitar the Church of St. Lucija made ​​a donation. The church belonged to a Benedictine abbey. The text includes the following sections:

  • The invocation of God ( invocatio dei )
  • The statement of the abbot Držiha that King Zvonimir of the church of Sv. Lucija donated a piece of land
  • A witness list
  • A threat against all who challenge this gift
  • The obligation of the monks for the founder ( and witnesses ) to pray
  • The statement of the abbot Dobrovit that he had the church with nine brothers built the reign of Prince Kosmat
  • The remark that at this time "M- IKULA VЪ OTOČЪCI " Sv. Lucija was united

The font used is a transitional form from the older to the newer round Glagolitic ( Croatian ) square Glagolitic Glagolitic characters dar. addition to the inscription also contains some Latin and Cyrillic letters. The language of the board is a mixture of an ( old ) form of Čakavischen and Church Slavonic.

The inscription ZЪVЪNIMIRЪ KRALЪ HRЪVATЪSKЪÏ ( Zvonimir, King of Croatia ) makes the Baska tablet to an important document and cultural monument of Croatian history, especially since this is the oldest such inscription in the Croatian language. The text of the panel represents a major source for historical linguistics, Slavic and Kroatistik, because from that time very few written records have survived in the Croatian language.

Text of the Baska tablet

German translation

Replica

A replica of the Baska tablet is in the reading room of the State Library in Berlin in Scharoun before receipt of the Eastern Department.

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