Dubrovnik Prayer Book

The Dubrovnik Prayer Book is "liber horarum" type of prayer book. This type of prayer book was the most popular religious book for the laity until the beginning of 17th century. The prayer book was printed in august 1512, in Venice. It is printed in Bosnian Cyrillic. Book was discovered to the public in 1932. According to Milan Rešetar which made analysis of script, content, spelling, and language led him to conclude that "the Cyrillic alphabet which is used in the manuscript was not intended for the Orthodox Church or the Orthodox faith, Cyrillic alphabet which is part of that manuscript was regularly used by our Catholics and Muslims".[1]

According to Milan Rešetar members this historical and literary monument is especially valuable because it reveals the Slavic culture in Dubrovnik as Serbian (even though it is Catholic). [2]

References
  1. Anica Nazor; (2015) Hrvatski ćirilički molitvenik 1512. (Croatian cyrillic prayer book of 1512) p. 17-21; Filologija 62, Zagreb,
  2. Srpska kraljevska akademija (1938). "Srpski molitvenik od g. 1512. Novo izdanje priredio Milan Rešetar". Filosofski i filološki spisi (in Serbian). 32: LX+109.
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