The first book in the Albanian language, “Meshari<\/i>” (\u201cThe Missal<\/i>\u201d) by Gjon Buzuku, was published. The only copy that survives today was found in 1740 in the Vatican, Italy. “Meshari” (\u201cThe Missal<\/i>\u201d) is written with the Latin alphabet, but five special letters are also used for Albanian sounds that the Latin lacks. “Meshari” (\u201cThe Missal<\/i>\u201d) consisted of 110 sheets (220 pages), of which 94 sheets (188 pages) remain, including the front page. The importance of the work lies in its linguistic, historical-literary value as well as in the tradition it created. The work remains a great linguistic and literary monument of the earliest period of writing in our language. (In the photo: “Meshari” <\/i>(\u201cThe Missal<\/i>\u201d) by Gjon Buzuku.)<\/i><\/p>\n
Text: <\/strong>Robert Elsie, History of Albanian literature,<\/i> “Dukagjini”, Pej\u00eb, 2001, pages 35-36.<\/p>\n Photo: <\/strong>\u00a9 National Library of Albania<\/p>\n Graphic processing: <\/strong>AHCF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The first book in the Albanian language, “The Missal” by Gjon Buzuku, was published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ngjarje"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n