Filipović Jerolim: Pripovidagnie nauka karstjanskoga / sloxeno i u razlikaa govoregnja razdiglieno po o. f. Jerolimu Filipovichiu iz Ramee, sctioczu jubilatomu Reda s. o. Francescka obsluxegnja.

The book is very well preserved in its original parchment binding!

Book I

FILIPOVIĆ, Jeronim, preacher and religious writer (Rama, d. 1690 — Sinj, 10. XII. 1765). The place and year of his birth have not been reliably established. It is usually stated that he was born in Rama, from where he escaped with his mother in 1695 to the Cetinje region. He was educated in the Franciscan monastery in Sinj and joined the Franciscan order in 1706. After the novitiate, he studied philosophy in Makarska in 1707–10. and then theology in Perugia, where he was ordained a priest at the end of 1714. He then continued his studies in Rome at the General College of the Order in the Aracelite monastery and became its professor of philosophy, which he also taught in Florence at the monastery of All Saints. He also earned the title of professor of theology. The elders of the Order sent him to Lviv in 1720 as a general lecturer of theology, but he returned to his homeland in 1721–24. teaches theology at the theological school in the monastery of St. St. Lawrence in Šibenik. When in 1725 it became the General College of the 2nd grade, F. continued to work as a general lecturer until 1732. In 1732, the Chapter of the Province of Bosnia Srebrena entrusted him with the position of lecturer at the General College of the 1st grade in Buda, where he remained until 1734 and earned the honorary title of "jubilee lecturer". At the Franciscan assembly in Našice in 1734, he advocated the indivisibility of Bosnia Srebrena, and when in 1735 Dalmatia was separated from it as the Province of St. Kaja (after the Province of the Holy Redeemer), Filipović was appointed as its first elder. He held this position until 1738. He visited the Province in 1736, took care of the religious houses in Imotski, Sumartin and Dobroma in Split, he is responsible for the fact that in 1736 the lower theology course was moved to Makarska and the college in Šibenik was raised to the rank of a 1st class General College. Later, he was a lecturer in philosophy in the Franciscan monastery in Sinj from 1742 to 1745. He held the post of provincial for the second time in 1751–54. At the end of his service, he remains in the monastery on Dobrome in Split. In addition to these duties, F. was the general visitor of the Province of Bosnia Srebrena in 1726, of the Bulgarian province of the Province of the Holy Redeemer in 1734 and 1757, and in 1755 as an emissary of the General of the Order of Bernardino a Terlitio in Bosnia, his report influenced the decision on the division of the Province in 1757, when the Province of St. Ivan Kapistranski. F. was a famous preacher, and he was also engaged in writing. Most of his writings in Latin have been lost. He left in manuscript the philosophical and theological works Disputationes in Aristotelis methaphysicam and Disputatio II. De divinis attributis et modis intrisecis and sermons in five codices. The manuscripts are kept in the Archives of the Franciscan Monastery in Sinj. Older historians attributed to him the authorship of the work Piesma ghuralna, which was rejected by recent research, establishing that it was the work of P. Knežević. F. is mainly a preacher who spread education in his province with the spoken and written word. He was buried in the monastery church in Sinj.