Baška tablet
From the cultural and historical sites worth mentioning one of the first found monument of Croatian literacy - the Baška Tablet.
It was found in the church of St. Lucia in Jurandvor on the island of Krk, near the town of Baška after which it was named. Dating back to the year 1100, written in the transitional type of Glagolitic script. The board is extremely important for the cultural history of Croatia as it represents one of the first records in the Croatian language.
Baška tablet was originally a left pluteum, barrier or screen, to the church barrier that divided the space for the monks of space for people and their features, shape, size and ornament lineage extending edge plate corresponds to typical plutei pre-Romanesque and Romanesque period in Croatia coast. It weighs about 800 kilograms carved out of white limestone.
Baška tablet states that the king Dmitar Zvonimir donated land the local Benedictine monastery. Church of St. Lucia where the panel was found at was built in the time of Abbot Dobrovit who lived in the time of Prince Kosmat who ruled Krajina and it can probably be connected with the time before the Venetian domination of Krk around 1116 or Krk princes Frankapan, Venetian vassal who begin to rule between 1118 and 1139. year. Dobrovit probably set the plutei. There were two tables, and there were only the parts of the second one found.
Today it is kept in the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and in the church of St. Lucia is a copy.



