Meshari

The book was supposedly published in Venice in 1555 by the Catholic bishop Gön Buzuku . Meshari was discovered in Skopje in 1740, after some time information about her was lost. In 1910, a copy of the book was discovered by the Catholic Bishop Luzi Skiroi . In 1930, a photocopy of the book was made, and in 1968 the book was published with the comments of scientists.

Currently, the original book is in the Vatican Library . The Vatican copy does not contain the title of the book and the first 16 pages.

The book is a translation into the Albanian language of the main parts of the Catholic liturgy, therefore the Albanian name of the book comes from the Latin name of the service book Missale . The book also contains a list of major Catholic holidays, prayers, litany of saints, Bible passages and the Trident catechism . The volume of the book is 188 pages, each of which is divided into two columns.

The book is written in Latin in the northern (Gegsky) dialect of the Albanian language using the modified Cyrillic letter Ћ ^[1] .

• Gjon Buzuku, Il Messale di Giovanni Buzuku. Riproduzione, traduzione e trascrizione a cura di Namik Ressuli. Città del Vaticano: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1958
• Gjon Buzuku, Meshari I Gjon Buzukut: (1555). Botim kritik punuar nga Eqrem Cabej. Tirane: Universiteti shteteror. Instituti i historise ei gjuhesise, 1968.

• In 2005, the Post of the Republic of Macedonia issued a postage stamp commemorating the 450th anniversary of Meshari ^[2] .

• Giuseppe Schirò, “Il Messale”, in Dizionario Bompiani delle opere e dei personaggi, vol. V Isc-Mia, p. 5526, Corriere della Sera, 2005, ISSN 1825-78870
• Eqrem Çabej, Gjon Buzuku dhe gjuha e tij. Prishtine: Rilindja, 1977
• Martin Camaj, Il Messale di Gjon Buzuku: contributi linguistici allo studio della genesi. Roma: Shejzat, 1960
• Buzuku dhe gjuha e tij. Redaksia Enver Hysa et al. Tirane: Akademia e shkencave e shqiperise. Institut i gjuhesise dhe i letersise, 2005

• Meshari i Gjon Buzukut
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