On Friday, 13 November 2026, the proceedings were presented at the State Archives in Pazin. Istrian divorce: Glagolitic. border. Middle Ages., 38th book of the Pazin Memorial. The Proceedings were published by the Chair of the Chakavian Parliament for the History of Istria Pazin and the State Archives in Pazin on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the Istrian Divorce.
The proceedings were discussed by academician Robert Matijašić and Josip Šiklić, editors of the edition, and Mirela Mrak Kliman.
The Istrian divorce, dated 1325, is one of the most important Croatian medieval legal and linguistic monuments. It records the procedures for establishing boundaries between feudal lords and rural municipalities. It is written in Glagolitic script and testifies to the centuries-old presence of Croatian literacy and legal culture in Istria.
The Proceedings brings the papers from the scientific conference held within 52. Pazin Memorial, under the auspices of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. The papers explore the Istrian divorce from a historical, philological, paleographic, lexicological and archival point of view. The second part of the proceedings deals with the Istrian Glagolitic heritage in general: from the older liturgical tradition to the newly discovered Glagolitic manuscripts in the Archives of the Istrian Society for Archaeology and Homeland History in Trieste.
The authors of the paper are Robert Matijašić, Josip Šiklić, Darko Komšo, Đeni Gobić Bravar, Markus Leideck, Anton Bozanić, Kristijan Žgaljardić, Gordana Čupković, Amir Kapetanović, Josip Mihaljević, Milica Mikecin, Mateo Žagar, Vera Blažević Krezić, Milica Lukić and Milan Mihaljević.
The collection was published with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, the County of Istria (Directorate of Regionality) and the City of Pazin.
