Gavrilo Trojičanin (c. 1600-after 1651) is a Serbian historiographer, a gifted

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and the monk of the monastery of ''Svete Troice'' (Holy Trinity) at Vrhobreznica, near

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Through his transcript work, from 1633 to 1651, he displayed more talent than any other copyist of the period. He had an enviable education and was interested in almost every area of human knowledge and endeavor that was nurtured in the Middle Ages. In monasteries and libraries, he collected comparisons of old manuscripts, copied ritual books, and decorated them with illuminations. His Cyrillic manuscript is extensive and ten works (several thousand pages in length) have been preserved in libraries. He also collaborated with artists of his time, namely Andrija Raičević and Jovan Kyr Kozma, during their stay in 1643 at the Monastery of the Holy Trinity of Pljevlja and hand-copied 6th-century traveler

Cosmas Indicopleustes Cosmas Indicopleustes (; also known as Cosmas the Monk) was a merchant and later hermit from Alexandria in Egypt. He was a 6th-century traveller who made several voyages to India during the reign of emperor Justinian. His work '' Christian Topogr ...

's '' Christian Topography''. In the Vrhobreznica Chronicle (''Vrhbreznik letopis'') of 1650, he codified old Serbian historiography, collecting together, in the new edition, the Serbian chronograph, genealogy, older yearbook, and junior yearbook. In summarizing Serbian historiography, it "symbolically marked the end of the medieval epoch", according to Serbian historian

Dimitrije Bogdanović Dimitrije Bogdanović (; October 11, 1930 in Belgrade – June 14, 1986 in Belgrade) was a Serbian historian and member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is considered one of leading scholars on Serbian medieval literature. Bogdano ...

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*A translation of his work into modern Serbian - The Chronicle of the Border: An Ancient Book of 1650, edited by Vladeta Cvijović, Podgorica, Institute of History of Montenegro, 2000. *Dimitrije Bogdanović: ''History of Old Serbian Literature'', Belgrade, SKZ, 1980. *Dejan Mihailović: ''The Byzantine Circle'' (Little Dictionary of Early Christian Literature in Greek, Byzantine and Old Serbian Literature), Belgrade, "Textbooks Institute", 2009, p. 38. *Jelica Stojanovic: ''Writer Gavrilo Trojicin and the Spelling and Linguistic Characteristics of the "Vrhobreznik Chronicle"'', "Proceedings of the Scientific Conference: Scepan Polje and its Saints throughout the Ages" (Pluzine, September 24–25, 2006), *Berane: *Sveviđe - ''Monastery Zagrađe'' 2010 , p. 159–170. *Group of Authors: ''Historical Lexicon of Montenegro'', Book 3 "Daily Press-News", 2006.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Trojicanin, Gavrilo Historiographers Scribes Serbian monks 1600 births 1651 deaths 17th-century Serbian people

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