Angular Glagolitic
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The Croatian Glagolitic or Croatian Glagolitic Script is a version of Glagolitic used in Croatia.[1]
This Glagolitic font is also known as Angular Glagolitic. Due to the fact that Croatian Glagolitic is used for the Croatian recension of the Old Bulgarian language, some of the letters of the original Glagolitic are abandoned (Yer, Yus, Yery) and a new letter for it is Short I.
After Glagoliticism became the main script in Croatia in the 11th and 12th centuries, it experienced a boom in the 13th century due to favorable church and political factors. The intensified literary activity in Croatia in the 13th century led to the formation of a special type of Glagolitic writing – an Uncial (statutory) Glagolitic script.
The 14th century and especially the 15th century are considered a golden age in the Croatian Glagolitic tradition. The sources for the approximate proportions and shape (construction) of the letters in the drawing of the "antique" are the Reims Gospel and several Breviaries from the 14th centuries and 15th centuries. With the proliferation of the Gutenberg press gradually in the 16th century in printed Croatian books, the Glagolitic alphabet was replaced by the Latin alphabet.[2]
This font is original Croatian, while the alphabet itself was created in Polychron and refined at the Preslav Literary School, most probably in the Ravna Monastery. The other font found is the Bulgarian Glagolitic, also known as the Round Glagolitic Script.