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VINODOLS CODE
720 year of
Vinodols code
Town of Novi Vinodolski |
Vinodol code is one of the
most important cultural monuments of Croatian people and
also one of very important European medieval documents,
a valuable source from whicg we can learn about the life
of our ancestors.
The compilers of the Vinodol code tried to protect the
serfcommoner from his omnipotent feudal lord,
particulary interesting that the Vinodol code was made
by "a commission consisting of representatives of
nine Vinodol town-communes: Grobnik, Trsat, Bakar,
Hreljin, Drivenik, Grizane, Bribir, Ledenice and
Novigrad (present-day Novi Vinodolski)"
The representatives of those towns met on 6th
January 1288 in Frankopan castle in Novigrad and "in the
presence of prince Leonard" recorded old judical
practies used in the principality of Vinodol and thus
the document got the name Vinodol Code. |
Until the middle of the 19th c. the manuscript of Vinodol
code was kept in the archives of the Modrus chapter in Novi
Vinodolski, when it became property of Edvard Mrzljak, counselor
in Croatian and Slavonic financial administration.
On 1851 he donated the manuscript to National Museum in zagreb,
from where it was transferred to National and University Library
where it has remained until present day.
The manuscript has 14 sheets i.e. 28 pages and it was written in
Croatian in Glagolitic script.
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