About the Project
Cyrillic Script Variants in Croatia: Paleographic Analysis and the Evolution of Literacy Through History, IP-2025-02-5681
The project Cyrillic Script Variants in Croatia (HRVĆIRPAL) is dedicated to the research, digital processing, and scholarly interpretation of the Croatian Cyrillic manuscript heritage from the 12th to the 19th century. The aim of the project is to systematically describe and classify the various variants of the Cyrillic script and to situate them within their historical, cultural, and spatio-temporal contexts.
Based on a representative corpus of medieval and early modern documents, the project will carry out palaeographic analyses, produce Latin-script transliterations, and develop a digital map illustrating the spread and transformation of Cyrillic variants over the centuries. The project will also result in the development of specialized computer fonts representing historical variants of Cyrillic, as well as educational digital content, including games.
All project results will be made publicly available through this project website. This will enable a new level of accessibility of the Croatian Cyrillic heritage to the scholarly community, the education system, and the general public.
- Home institution: Old Church Slavonic Institute
- Funding: Croatian Science Foundation and the Old Church Slavonic Institute
- Project leader: Kristian Paskojević, PhD
- Project number: IP-2025-02-5681
- Project duration: 5 December 2025 – 4 December 2028