THE »GLAGOLITSA« AND THE DALMATIAN MONUMENTS

The author publishes a series of some as yet unpublished or uninterpreted inscription, engraved in glagolitic characters that have been found in Dalmatia (at Pirovac, Posedarje, Kukljica, Savar, Grusi, Neviđane and Kali), suggesting his own reading and interpretation of some published inscriptions (from Trogir, Silba and Murter). The inscriptions, referring to artistic monuments, give account of their respective engravers and of the life of the owners or of the persons who commissioned the work. Among the engravers and builders we find the names of the following ones: Mihovil Jaković, 1485, at Pirovac; Fane Lorencin, 1660, at Silba; Matij Senestrin, 1666, at Kukljica; master Lovre (Lawrence), 1672, at Savar; Pave Senestrin, 1701, at Arbanasi; Miladin Srekić, 1750, at Grusi. The figures found on the polyptych at Trogir, painted by Blaž Jurjev do not refer to any year, but to the painter’s own records. The late Gothic pyx at Posedarje was owned by the Glagolitic Franciscan friars of Zadar in 1580. The altar icons representing St. Jerome and St. Cyril in the church at Murter, painted by brothers Pio and Vicenzo Dell’Acqua (about 1780), are in accordance with the thesis of Croatian Glagolitic priests ascribing the glagolitic alphabet to St. Jerone and the Cyrillic one to St. Cyril