  baÅ¡ka tablet (, ) is one of the first monuments containing an inscription in the croatian recension of the church slavonic language, dating from c. 1100. ==history== the tablet was discovered by scholars in 1851 in the paving of the church of st. lucy, jurandvor near baÅ¡ka on the island of krk. since 1934 the original has been kept in the croatian academy of sciences and arts, zagreb. == description == baÅ¡ka tablet is made of white limestone. it is 199 cm wide, 99.5 cm high, and 7.5â9 cm thick. it weighs approximately 800 kilograms. the inscribed stone slab records king zvonimir's donation of a piece of land to a benedictine abbey in the time of abbot drÅ¾iha. the second half of the inscription tells how abbot dobrovit built the church along with nine monks. the inscription is written in the glagolitic script, exhibiting features of church slavonic of croatian recension, such as writing (j)u for (j)Ç«, e for Ä, i for y, and using one jer only (Ñ). it provides the only example of transition from glagolitic of the rounded macedonian type to the angular croatian alphabet. === contents === the scholars who took part in deciphering of the glagolitic text had to deal with palaeographic challenges, as well as the problem of the damaged, worn-out surface of the slab. through successive efforts, the contents was largely established before world war i, but remained a topic of study throughout the 20th century. the transliterated text, according to branko fuÄiÄ, with restored segments in square brackets, is as follows: {| class=wikitable |- ! original text transliterated to latin ! the same text in modern croatian ! the same text in english |- | a[zÑ vÑ ime o]tca i s(i)na [i s](ve)tago duha azÑ opat[Ñ] drÅ¾iha pisahÑ se o ledin[n]e juÅ¾e da zÑvÑnim[i]rÑ kralÑ hrÑvatÑskÑÃ¯ [vÑ] dni svojÄ vÑ svetuju luciju i s[vedo]mi Å¾upanÑ desimra krÑ[ba]vÄ mra[tin]Ñ vÑ l(i)cÄ pr(i)bÑnebÅ¾a [s]Ñ posl[Ñ] vin[od](o)lÄ [Äk](o)vÑ v(Ñ) otocÄ da iÅ¾e to poreÄe klÑni i bo(g) i bÃ¯(=12) ap(osto)la i g(=4) eva(n)j(e)listi i s(ve)taÄ luciÄ am(e)nÑ da iÅ¾e sdÄ Å¾ivetÑ moli za ne
1100_in_Europe 11th_century_in_Croatia Croatian_culture Krk Medieval_Croatia Old_Croatian_inscriptions