Some glagolitic records in V ižinada

Abstract

In this paper the Author presents some transliterated Glagolitic entries from the »Book of the Confraternity of St. Anton (c.1583 - c.1665)« kept in the Parish Office in Vizinada. After some introductory commentary on the book, the Author explains how he copied the entries in Latin characters, and he then presents the transliterated texts in chronological order and designated ffom 1 to 8, marking the page number in the original. In the conclusion, he points out the fact that although Istria was one of the main centres of Glagolitic literacy in Croatia, and it was here that numerous and very important Glagolitic texts were written and used, not one extensive and valuable Glagolitic manuscript is kept today in the Historical Archive in Pazin, due to various historical circumstances. Conscious of this, the collaborators of the Archive have started to register and periodically publish all, even the minute Glagolitic texts found during the classifying of collections stored in the Archive or during the recording of archival material in other institutions. They believe that the publication of every, even the most exiguous Glagolitic text or entry is a contribution to a complete understanding of Glagolitic literacy in general, and in particular in the territory of Istria. In the past, such monuments were also systematically and consciously destroyed.