Gršković's fragment of the Acts of the Apostles

Gršković's fragment of the Acts of the Apostles (Serbo-Croatian: Гршковићев одломак Апостолa, Grškovićev odlomak Apostola) represents one of the oldest preserved monuments written in Glagolitic script in Old Slavic language, a passage from the Acts of the Apostles. Features of the Serbian vernacular appear in it, and the Serbian recension of Old Church Slavonic later developed under the influence of this.

It is considered, based on some features of the language (e.g. replacing the letter "f" with the letter "p", i.e. "Ste" "p" "an" instead of "Ste" "f" "an") and the Glagolitic alphabet itself, that it was created at the end of 11th century or at the beginning of the 12th century on the territory of Bosnia or Zeta or Zahumlje.^[1]

It is written in Glagolitic transitional type, between Macedonian and Croatian.^[2]

The passage itself consists of four sheets of parchment measuring 15.5 × 21.7 cm, facing east (Orthodox) rite and is related, in terms of the place and time of origin, the so-called Mihanović's fragment.^[3]

Fragments were found at the end of the 19th century by priest Jerko Gršković in Vrbnik on Krk and according to him these fragments got its name. They are kept in the archive of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.^[4]

References

^ Minić, Petar (5 April 2018). "Grškovićev odlomak". Museum of Serbian Language (in Serbian). Students of the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade.
^ Žagar, Mateo (2008). "Grafetičke posebnosti tekstova istočne grane hrvatskoga glagoljaštva" [Graphetic specialities of the texts of the eastern branch of the Croatian Glagolitism]. Slovo: Journal of Old Church Slavonic Institute (in Croatian). Zagreb: Staroslavenski institut (56–57): 698.
^ "Grškovićev odlomak Apostola". Croatian Encyclopedia (in Croatian).
^ "Grškovićev Apostol". Proleksis Encyclopedia (in Croatian).