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Luka Jelić: Fontes historici liturgiae glagolito-romanae
About the Glagolitic liturgy in the area of Croatia, especially in Dalmatia, Istria, Primorje and Krk, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Montenegro and about sources abroad.
Jelić, Luka, Croatian historian and archaeologist (Vranjic, 22. XII. 1864 – Kaštel Stari, 3. II. 1922). Year In 1887 he graduated from the seminary in Zadar, in 1889 he obtained a doctorate in canon law in Rome, where he then studied church history and Christian archeology (until 1891). After studying archeology in Vienna (1892–93), he taught church history and canon law at the Zadar Theological Seminary (1893–99). In numerous archaeological and historical studies, he covered topics from prehistory, antiquity and early Christianity in Dalmatia. He studied the Glagolitic heritage and the history and architecture of the Benedictine order in Croatia. Under his leadership, many archaeological monuments in Dalmatia were discovered and most of the collection of objects from the Early Iron Age was collected in the Archaeological Museum in Zadar. He worked as a conservator and restorer of monuments of the older Croatian past (in Nin, Biograd, etc.). Together with F. Bulić, he founded the Croatian Antiquarian Society Bihać in Split in 1892. Works: Vođa po Spljet and Solin (co-authors F. Bulić and S. Rutar, 1894), Historical sources for Glagolitic-Roman liturgy from XIII. until the XIX century (Fontes historici liturgiae Glagolito-Romanae a XIII ad XIX saeculum, 1900), Palace Chapel of St. Cross in Nin (1911).
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