The Baška Tablet

The Baška tablet is the oldest Croatian written monument, the “precious stone of the Croatian language”. It originally served as an altar partition in the Church of St. Lucija (St. Lucy) in Jurandvor on the island of Krk. It is believed to have been carved around 1100. The Tablet is significant for Otočac because in the last line it is written in the Croatian language, Chakavian dialect and Glagolitic alphabet: “'I biše v ti dni Mikula v Otočci s svetuju Luciju v jedino” (In those days, Mikula was in Otočac with St. Lucy together.), said in the modern Croatian language of the abbey St. Nikole in Otočac had an outpost of St. Lucy on the island of Krk, that is, the older abbey in Otočac expanded to the island of Krk at the time when the Croatian king Zvonimir ruled the island, ending the centuries-old Byzantine rule. Since Byzantium allowed vernacular languages ​​in worship (while Latin was exclusively used in the West), it is obvious that Old Slavonic worship and the Glagolitic script were used in Krk (verbology). By placing that area under Croatian rule, state and church administration spread from the mainland to the island, while the national language and Glagolitic spread from the island to the mainland. "Zv'nimirkral hrvatski" is also mentioned on the Baška tablet. It is the oldest known record on which the word “Croatian” is written in the Croatian language. Otočac is across the abbey of St. Nicholas had the privilege of being written on the Baška tablet, that “Croatian baptismal certificate”, to be written in the Croatian Chakavian language and to be written in the Croatian Glagolitic script. The motif was made by the sculptor Janko Mošnja from Pula.

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