Formula e pagëzimit
Oldest written attestation of Albanian From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The formula e pagëzimit (English: baptismal formula) is the oldest written document with a writing in Albanian which has been found. The document is “Codex Ashburnham” dated November 8, 1462, and it contains various notes on Albania written in Latin by Archbishop Pal Engjëlli.[1][2]
The sentence in Old Albanian is:
Un'te paghesont' pr'emenit t'Atit e t'Birit e t'Spertit Senit.
In modern Albanian it is: Unë të pagëzoj në emër të Atit, të Birit, e të Shpirtit të Shenjtë.[3] In English it is: "I baptize thee in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit".[1]
The document is held in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, Italy, where it was discovered in 1915 by Romanian scholar Nicolae Iorga.[4]
Albanian scripts were produced earlier than Formula e pagëzimit, we know of their existence by earlier references, for example a French monk noted in 1332, that "although the Albanians have another language totally different from Latin, they still use Latin letters in all their books.[5][6]
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