{"id":7306,"date":"2023-11-03T20:00:21","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T20:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/2023\/11\/03\/the-formula-of-baptism\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:52:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:52:04","slug":"the-formula-of-baptism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/2023\/11\/03\/the-formula-of-baptism\/","title":{"rendered":"The formula of Baptism."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">They wrote the &#8220;Baptism Formula&#8221;, the oldest document of Albanian writing that we know to this day. It is a short Albanian sentence (<em>Unte&#8217; paghesont premenit Atit et birit et spertit senit<\/em>) in the middle of a Latin writing, a circular letter of the archbishop of Durr&euml;s, Pal Engj&euml;lli, a close collaborator of Skanderbeg. It is a formula that families had to use to baptize their newborn children when they could not take them to church. The formula is written in the dialect of the North and in the Latin alphabet, close to what Buzuku used in his work. The Latin manuscript with the &#8220;Formula of Baptism&#8221; was found in the &#8220;<em>Laurenziana<\/em>&#8221; library in Florence by the Romanian historian Nikola Jorga and was published by him in 1915. <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">(In the photo: Formula of Baptism, 1462.)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">Text:<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\"> <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">Albanian encyclopedic dictionary &#8211; Vol. 1 <\/em>, Academy of Sciences of Albania, &#8220;Kristalina-KH&#8221;, Tirana, 2008, page 713.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">Photo: <\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">&copy; <\/span><span lang=\"EN\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/sq\/vatikani\/news\/2019-11\/formula-e-pagezimit-e-imzot-pal-engjellit-mban-daten-8-nentor.html\"><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/sq\/vatikani\/news\/2019-11\/formula-e-pagezimit-e-imzot-pal-engjellit-mban-daten-8-nentor.html<\/span><\/a><\/span><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">Graphic processing: <\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">AHCF<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Formula of Baptism&#8221; was written, the oldest known document in the Albanian language to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ngjarje"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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