Law code of Vinodol or Vinodol
statute
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( hr, Vinodolski zakonik) is one of the oldest law texts written in the
Chakavian dialect of
Croatian and is among the oldest Slavic
code
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s.
[ Russkaya Pravda is the only older code in Slavdom.] It was written in the
Glagolitic alphabet. It was originally compiled in 1288 by a commission of 42 members in
Novi Vinodolski, a town on the Adriatic Sea coast in
Croatia, located south of Crikvenica, Selce and Bribir and north of Senj. However, the code itself is preserved in a 16th-century copy.
The statute
A paragraph was set to define the relation between the
dukes and the
peasantry of the region.
It is the oldest among all Croatian city statutes, which represented an agreement between the people of Vinodol and their new liege lords Frangipani, the
counts of Krk. It contains important information about the feudal law in this area which had replaced the tribal customs of an earlier period. The Vinodol Statute provides a rare contemporary picture of the life and political conditions in
medieval Europe. The oldest regulations concerning public health in western Croatia are preserved within the Vinodol Statute. Today, it is stored in the
National and University Library Zagreb
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.
The Vinodol Statute confirms status of the Vinodol as an administrative and political center from the 13th century. The text of the statute is preserved as a copy from the 16th century.
Editions
The first printed edition was prepared in 1843 by
Antun Mažuranić Antun Mažuranić (Novi Vinodolski, 13 June 1805 – 18 December 1888, Zagreb) was Croatian writer and linguist, brother of Croatian Ban Ivan Mažuranić and writer Matija Mažuranić.
He was an active participant of the Illyrian movement and one o ...
in the third yearly volume of the journal ''
Kolo''.
translated it in 1846 to
Russian and
Anna Mikhailovna Evreinova edited the 1878 edition in
Saint Petersburg, with facsimile of the original as well as Latin and Cyrillic transliteration.
Vatroslav Jagić published it in 1880, both the original and a Russian translation with philological and legal commentary.
Wacław Maciejowski
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translated it in 1856 to
Polish
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Jules Preux translated it in 1896 to
French
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,
Mark Kostrenčić translated it in 1931 to
German
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and
Lujo Margetić translated it in 1981/1982 to
Italian, and in 1983 to
English.
Josip Bratulić edited the 1988 facsimile edition with commentary and a dictionary.
See also
*
List of Glagolitic manuscripts
*
Kastav Statute The Kastav Statute ( hr, Statut Grada Kastva) is a 14th-century Glagolitic city statute of Croatian city Kastav.
The Kastav Statute "Zakon Grada Kastva od letta 1400", was written in 1400,http://www.zavod.pgz.hr/novo/docs/zzpuHR/documents/43/Orig ...
Notes
References
External links
1843 edition by Antun MažuranićFacsimile reproduction of the Codex at the Croatian National Library (Flash)
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