By: Branislav Cvetković, museum advisor
The significance of the collection of medieval manuscript fragments from our Museum, originating from the Hilandar Monastery, known as the Tirić Fragments, has recently been reaffirmed. It is included in the International Project “Development of the Cyrillic Script from the 9th to the 14th Century in South Slavic Areas: Research and Digital Presentation”, launched at the Cyrillo-Methodian Research Center of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia (Bulgaria), led by Prof. Dr. Veselka Zhelyazkova, Director of the Center, and the distinguished Slavic scholar Assoc. Prof. Dr. Marko Scarpa, Professor at the University of Messina (Italy) and the Cyrillo-Methodian Research Center. On this occasion, within the electronic editions of our Museum, as the first in a series of occasional publications, the final version of the article on the Tirić Collection, which was originally presented at a scientific conference Collections, remaniements, expositions: les vies du manuscrit médiéval au périodes moderne et contemporaine. Journée d’études, in Paris in 2013, is being published.
