Sixth grade students accompanied by Croatian language teacher Dubravka Burić visited the library and museum of the monastery of St. Francis in Rovinj. Under expert guidance, the students saw a multitude of books, leading among them missals and breviaries from the 16th to the 18th centuries, which were handwritten and decorated. The library contains about 12,000 books, and the most interesting thing for the students was to get their hands on a 17th-century breviary, a wooden frame that weighs about 12 kg and is written in Latin. Among other rarities, they were able to see fragments written in Glagolitic script and hand-painted initials, which particularly impressed them.
We thank the monastery for cooperation, hospitality and candies!
