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  Ancient Scripts: Glagolitic
The students of St. Cyril might have found Glagolitic "undignified and unsuitable for ecclesiastical use" (Hersey) because of its cursive shapes, and derived Cyrillic from an already liturgical script.
In Croatia, though, it continued to be in use until the 19th century in church.
The Croatian Glagolitic is quite similar in to Old Church Slavonic Glagolitic, but it has less letters and the shape of its characters are much more rectangular.
www.ancientscripts.com /glagolitic.html   (273 words)

  
  culturenet.hr - Panorama - Music - Glagolitic singing
Glagolitic singing is unique due to the position of Glagolitism in the organization of the Western Church as well as the cultural tradition of three languages (Old Church Slavonic, Latin, Croatian) and three scripts (Glagolitic, Croatian Cyrillic and Latin).
Glagolitic singing lasted parallel with the Latin tradition: from the 9th to the 17th centuries in the narrower sense, and up to the 20th century in wider terms.
Today Glagolitic chant is studied on the basis of documents (the most important dating from 1248 and 1252), liturgical roles in rubrics, rare note records, but mostly sound recordings and transcriptions (mgt.
www.culturenet.hr /v1/english/panorama.asp?id=21   (410 words)

  
  Glagolitic alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Glagolitic alphabet or Glagolitsa is the oldest known Slavic alphabet.
The Croats using the Glagolitic alphabet were the only nation in Europe who was given a special permission by Pope Innocent IV (in 1248) to use their own language and this script in liturgy.
In Istria, a road connecting the hill towns of Roč and Hum is known as the "Glagolitic Avenue." Along this road is a series of 1970's-era monuments to the Glagolitic alphabet.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Glagolitic_alphabet   (1592 words)

  
 Monotype: Non Latin Font
Glagolitic was used to write the translation of the Bible into Old Bulgarian.
Glagolitic script was often referred to as azbuka which is a generic name for alphabet created from the name of the first two letters.
Glagolitic continued to be used for some time in Serbia and Bosnia and to a limited extent, in Polish and Czech churches.
www.agfamonotype.co.uk /Library/Non-Latin-Library.asp?show=info&lan=glagolitic   (290 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Glagolitic alphabet   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Tablet inscribed with the Glagolitic alphabet The Glagolitic alphabet or Glagolitsa is the oldest known Slavonic alphabet.
Events The Glagolitic alphabet, devised by Cyril and Methodius, missionairies from Constantinople, is adopted in the Bulgarian Empire.
The name "Glagolitic" is in Czech hlaholice, in Slovak hlaholika, in Polish głagolica, in Russian and Bulgarian глаго́лица (transliterated glagolitsa), in Croatian glagoljica, in Ukrainian глаголиця (transliterated hlaholytsia), in Belarusian глаголіца (transliterated hlaholitsa), in Slovene glagolica, etc.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Glagolitic-alphabet   (5486 words)

  
 Glagolitic Mass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Glagolitic Mass (also called Slavonic Mass; in Czech Glagolská mše and sometimes Mša glagolskaja) is a piece for soloists, chorus and orchestra by Leoš Janáček.
The term "Glagolitic" refers to the Glagolitic alphabet, the earliest alphabet used by the Slavs, and not to the texts used for the mass, as Janáček seems to have believed.
The Glagolitic Mass is considered one of the century's masterworks and is frequently performed and recorded today.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Glagolitic_Mass   (353 words)

  
 Glagolitic
The order of the letters of the alphabet in the Glagolitic and in the Cyrillic is nearly the same, but the letters bear no resemblance to each other, except possibly in one or two instances.
Although the Slavic peoples bordering on the Adriatic Sea were converted to the Roman Rite, they received the privilege, as well as their brethren of the Greek Rite, of having the Mass and the offices of the Church said in their own tongue.
At present the Slavonic language for the Roman Rite, printed in Glagolitic characters, is used in the Slavic churches of the Dioceses of Zengg, Veglia, Zara, and Spalato, and also by the Franciscans in their three churches in Veglia, one in Cherso, two in Zara, and one in Sebenico.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/g/glagolitic.html   (750 words)

  
 Istria on the Internet - Genealogy - FHL Microfilm Holdings of Glagolitic Records
Glagolitic was the original Slavic alphabet invented by Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius about 860.
It is generally believed that the word itself was formed from a nonsense syllable gol- which was repeated, to imitate the sound of speaking, much as the word "barbarian" was invented by the Greeks to describe languages unfamiliar to them (others sounded like "bar-bar....").
Thus considerably more Glagolitic material is expected to be filmed, cataloged and made accessable at the FHL for its patrons by the end of this decade and the early years of the next century.
www.istrianet.org /istria/genealogy/fhl-glagolitic1.htm   (371 words)

  
 Entry of the Slavs into Christendom | Serbianna.com Features
As far as the perpetuation of the Glagolitic alphabet is concerned, manifestly the main credit goes to those monasteries which most consistently cultivated the language.
It is believed that Charles IV of Bohemia brought Glagolitic monks from here for his foundation of Emmaus in the middle of the fourteenth century.
Glagolitic as a secular alphabet for Croat literature saw a considerable development in the fourteenth-fifteenth centuries, evolving for the purpose a special cursive variant.
www.serbianna.com /features/entry_of_slavs/croatia3.shtml   (1726 words)

  
 Glagolitic   (Site not responding. Last check: )
At the end of the 9th century, one of these students of Methodius who wassettled in Preslav (Bulgaria) created the Cyrillic alphabet, and this descendant of the Glagolitic almostentirely replaced the Glagolitic during the Middle Ages.
Nowadays, the Glagolitic is only used for Church Slavonic and,sometimes, vernacular in the service-books of the Catholic Eparchy of Križevci in former Yugoslavia.
A less common belief was that the Glagolitic wascreated by St.
www.therfcc.org /glagolitic-49241.html   (746 words)

  
 Leos Janacek
The idea for the setting was suggested by a clerical friend, who whilst criticizing the paucity of religious music in Czechoslovakia suggested that the composer try his hand at a new setting of the mass.
The term ‘Glagolitic’ refers to the original script in which Old Church Slavonic was written.
The Mass is peppered with Janáček’s customary traits; use of repeated motives (Sir Charles Mackerras is recently quoted as saying that he was the first minimalist composer), short bursts of lyricism and bizarre, often surprising groupings of instruments within the orchestra.
www.leosjanacek.co.uk /glagolitic.htm   (553 words)

  
 Glagolitic Mass - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Glagolitic Mass   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The piece was written to celebrate the independence of Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic); as part of this Janáček wished to use the oldest Slavonic version of the Ordinary that could be found.
He believed that the 9th-century manuscript which was found and transcribed for him was in a language called ‘Glagolitic’, however he was mistaken: Glagolitic was the liturgical alphabet in which it was written.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Glagolitic+Mass   (180 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Glagolitic
alphabet in the Glagolitic and in the Cyrillic is nearly the same, but the letters bear no resemblance to each other, except possibly in one or two instances.
Some of the earliest Slavic manuscripts are written in the Glagolitic characters.
Jerome the credit for the invention of the Glagolitic characters: "Quum igitur Illyricarum gentium, quæ longe lateque per Europam diffusæ sunt, atque ab ipsis gloriosis Apostolorum Principibus Petro et Paulo potissimum Christi fidem edoctæ fuerunt, libros sanctos jam inde a S. Hieronymi temporibus, ut pervetusta ad nos detulit traditio, vel certe a Pontificatu fel.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/06575b.htm   (0 words)

  
 "Glagolitic Records - Historical Background" by Gordon McDaniel   (Site not responding. Last check: )
With the LDS microfilming underway in Croatia, there is now a good-sized collection of material written in the Glagolitic alphabet which will definitely present problems for researchers.
In case you're not up on it, Glagolitic was the alphabet that Cyril and Methodius actually invented (they *didn't* invent Cyrillic).
It is generally believed that the word itself was formed from a nonsense syllable gol- which was repeated, to imitate the sound of speaking, much as the word "barbarian" was invented by the Greeks to describe languages unfamiliar to them (others sounded like "bar-bar....").
www.feefhs.org /frl/cro/glag-gm1.html   (221 words)

  
 Istria on the Internet - Linguistics - Glagolitic
Although the Latin holds the chief place among the liturgical languages in which the Mass is celebrated and the praise of God recited in the Divine Offices, yet the Slavonic language comes next to it among the languages widely used throughout the world in the liturgy of the Church.
This older alphabet, which still survives, is called the Glagolitic (from glagolati, to speak, because the rude tribesmen imagined that the letters spoke to the reader and told him what to say), and was used by the southern Slavic tribes and now exists along the Adriatic highlands.
The Slavonic which is written in the Glagolitic characters is also the ancient language, but it differs considerably from the Slavonic written in the Cyrillic letters.
www.istrianet.org /istria/linguistics/glagolitic/glago-history.htm   (1388 words)

  
 CROATIAN GLAGOLITIC SCRIPT   (Site not responding. Last check: )
After that period, the Glagolitic script on the entire area of that Slavic corpus east of, roughly speaking, rivers Krka and Vrbas was replaced by the Cyrillic script (present at least since the 11th century), with very rare Glagolitic "excursions" further to the east.
On the western pole, the regions of Istria, Kvarner, Lika, northern Dalmatia, Glagolitism was also present from the earliest times (11th, 12th century: The Plomin Tablet, the Valun Tablet, the Krk island inscrption, the Baška tablet?), but for all that it is precisely in the beginning of the 13th century that Glagolitism experienced vigorous momentum.
In segments, this type of Glagolitic script will continue to develop until the 16th century, but as early as in the mid-13th century the eye of the average reader will no longer be able to distinguish the differences in the script between certain fragments.
www.svkri.hr /izlozbe/glagolitic.html   (888 words)

  
 Glagolitic alphabet - Definition, explanation
The Glagolitic alphabet or Glagolitsa is the oldest known Slavonic alphabet.
Nowadays, Glagolitic is only used for Church Slavonic and, sometimes, vernacular in the service-books of the Catholic Eparchy of Križevci; in Croatia.
The name "Glagolitic" is in Czech hlaholice, in Slovak hlaholika, in Polish głagolica, in Russian and Bulgarian глаго́лица; (transliterated glagolitsa), in Croatian glagoljica, in Ukrainian глаголиця; (transliterated hlaholytsia), in Belarusian глаголіца (transliterated hlaholitsa), in Slovene glagolica, etc.
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/g/gl/glagolitic_alphabet.php   (1272 words)

  
 Croatia - Croatian Glagolitic Heritage: UNESCO-CI
The corpus of Glagolitic manuscripts and documents is a unique collection of manuscripts, legal texts and documents, literary works and records, written in Glagolitic script and Croatian and Old Slavonic languages.
Thousands of manuscripts and records preserved are only a part of the rich Glagolitic tradition, flourishing between the 11th and 19th centuries in Southern and Central Europe, mostly in Croatia, where a specific angular type of the script was developed.
The existing Glagolitic corpus is essential to an understanding of cultural and spiritual processes and interactions in medieval society, and of the formation of distinct national cultural traditions, rooted in a common heritage.
portal.unesco.org /ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=7087&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html   (377 words)

  
 Glagolitic   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Glagolitic script was used by Roman Catholic Slavs, while the Cyrillic alphabet was used by Eastern Orthodox Slavs; and although the origin of Glagolitic is not clear, it is probably closely related to the Cyrillic alphabet.
Slavic tradition is generally inconsistent as to which script to attribute to the Eastern Orthodox “apostle to the Slavs,” St. Cyril (or Constantine).
Although dissimilar to Cyrillic in letter form, Glagolitic had approximately the same number of letters as Cyrillic and identical sound values for the letters; this implies a common origin for the two systems.
www.rkp-montreal.org /en/05glagolitic.html   (169 words)

  
 Glagolitic alphabet - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
It was created by Saint Cyril around 862-863 in order to translate the Bible and other texts into the Slavonic language(more exactly, Old Church Slavonic).
Rastislav, the Prince (King) of Great Moravia, wanted to weaken the dependence of this Slavonic empire on East Frankish priests, so in 862 he had the Byzantine emperor send two Slavonic missionaries, Cyril and Methodius, to Great Moravia.
Nowadays, the Glagolitic is only used for Church Slavonic and, sometimes, vernacular in the service-books of the Catholic Eparchy of Križevci in former Yugoslavia.
www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Glagolitic_alphabet   (703 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Glagolitic alphabet Article   (Site not responding. Last check: )
It owed its popularity to the Catholic Church: similarly to how the Croats were allowed to use the native language in liturgy, they were also allowed to use their own alphabet.
Some of the students of the Ohrid academy went to Bohemia where the alphabet was partly used in the 10th and 11th century.
Note that Jery is simply a ligature of Jer and I. The order of Izhe and I varies from source to source, as does the order of the various forms of Jus.
www.ipedia.com /glagolitic_alphabet.html   (866 words)

  
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The relationship between the origins of Glagolitic and Cyrillic is unknown, though St. Cyril is said to have had a hand in both.
In the encoding, Glagolitic is treated as a separate script from Cyrillic, principally because the letter shapes are in most cases totally unrelated, with differences not at all arising from "mere font style".
Glagolitic itself is seen in two slightly different styles, called the Bulgarian-Macedonian and Croatian.
www.unicode.org /Public/TEXT/UTR-3.TXT   (12590 words)

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