Some glagolithic documents from Novigrad

Abstract

The A. publishes five Glagolithic documents - four wills and one attestation of the settlement of a conventual debt. The documents are kept in the State Archive in Pazin, in the collection of documents of the Old Commune of Novigrad (Novigrad writing-office), and they were written by dominus Bemardinus, Don Matija Ravnohod, Don Ivan Mihovilic and Fra Benedictus. Following short introductory notes, the A. presents a brief analysis of the documents' contents and points to the possibilities of their use as historical suorces for the history of the Commune of Novigrad, and for the history of the glagolithic script in Istria. After that he explains how he transliterated the texts from the Glagolithic to the Latin alphabet. At the end, he reproduces the transliterated text of the documents, followed by a commentary of the essential graphic characteristics of the script and in the appendix the documents are reproduced.