Table by Kočerin
The Kočerin tablet is a tombstone in Kočerin , a municipality in Široki Brijeg in Bosnia and Herzegovina . It dates from the time (around 1410/11) of the medieval Bosnian state . The inscription is written in the western Cyrillic script Bosančica .
content
The epitaph of Viganj Milošević is on the board . He was buried here and have the first Bosnian king Tvrtko I served. In the end it says that Viganj was what we are now and that we would be what he is now. The text contains the earliest mention of Kočerin.
All Bosnian rulers, from Stjepan II. Kotromanić to Stjepan Ostoja, are listed in the correct order. Among the rulers there is also a queen - Jelena Gruba , the wife of Stjepan Dabiša , who ruled from 1391 to 1395. Queen Gruba ruled for three years from 1395 to 1398 after his death.
layout
The text begins with the sign of the cross. It has a total of 25 lines. Each line contains 10 to 16 characters, only the last line has 7, 9 to 15 letters.
The table is decorated with a vine, a cross, a crescent moon and an eight-leaf rosette. The table is 137 cm high. It is 50 cm wide at the top, 49 cm in the middle and 53 cm wide at the bottom. The thickness of the board is also not uniform: in the lower right corner it is 16 cm, the lower left corner is damaged, but it is believed that the thickness was 16 cm. At a height of 80 cm, the right side of the board is 20.50 cm thick, and the left side is 17.50 cm. The right tip of the board is 22 cm thick, the left 20 cm.
Location
It is set up above Milošević's tomb from 1404. Today the grave with the grave plaque is still on the wide field of Kočerins, about 1 km as the crow flies from the rectory there, where the plaque is on display. The tablet was brought to the rectory from the Kočerins field. For a long time the plaque was built into a wall of the parish building. During a scientific event “Viganj i njegovo doba” in 2004, which was held in honor of the 600th anniversary of the Kočerin tablet and the first written mention of the Kočerin name, the tablet was removed from the wall and placed in the ancient collection of Kočerin Municipality incorporated in the rectory. It was pointed out at the event that the text of Viganj Milošević's funerary inscription is inspired by the Italian Renaissance and interspersed with humanist ideas.
A copy of the plaque with text in its original size is now in the Lipovci necropolis in the place where the plaque was discovered.
At the beginning of the text the " Holy Trinity " is listed, which should indicate that Viganj belongs to the Catholic religion, further evidence of this is the cross and other religious decorations.
literature
- Stjepan Ivanković, Jozo Kraljević, Drago Mikulić: Kočerin kroz stoljeća. Tiskara Müller, Sarajevo, Kočerin 2004.
- Zbornik, Viganj i njegovo doba. MIKULIĆ Grgo (right), Gral, Široki Brijeg 2004.
Individual evidence
- ↑ bosančica | Hrvatska enciklopedija. Retrieved October 14, 2017 .