FIRST WORLD EXHIBITION OF GLAGOLITIC SCRIPT TO OPEN IN DUBLIN NOV 20

ZAGREB, Nov 5 (Hina) - The first exhibition of the old Croatian script - Glagolitsa - will be opened in the Irish capital Dublin on November 20. The event, entitled "Discovering the Glagolitic Script of Croatia" will be staged in the prestigious Trinity College Library 'Long Room'. The exhibition will include about 100 exhibits selected by its author, academician Anica Nazor, who is also the head of Zagreb's Institute of Old Slavic Studies. #L# The exhibition is part of a long-term project of presentation of the most important segments of Croatia's literacy and books abroad, which is being implemented by the Croatian Ministry of Culture. Culture Minister Antun Vujic is expected to open the event. During three months - from November 20 to February 20 - visitors will be able to gain insight into the nearly thousand-year-long development of the Glagolitic script on Croatian soil and its use in religious and secular events as well as its presence in Croatia's modern life. The visitors will also be able to see original manuscripts and reprints and facsimiles of books printed in the Glagolitic script in Croatia and abroad - in Venice, Tuebingen and Rome between 1483 and 1893. The casts of two famous Glagolitic monuments - the Baska Tablet (Bascanska ploca) and the Valun Tablet (Valunska ploca) in their actual size and new colour pictures of Glagolitic monuments which are being kept in libraries in Croatia and abroad will be displayed as well. The exhibition will be presented in a special colour catalogue in English. The Trinity College Library, which exhibits the oldest and most valuable Irish manuscripts, is visited by about half a million people annually. (hina) rml