His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Irinej has organized a reception for Mr. Branko Jokić, Director of Museum in Priština, Mr. Slobodan Gavrilović, Director of JP Službeni glasnik, Mr. Milojko Knežević, editor at JP Službeni Glasnik, Prof. Dr Đorđe Trifunović, chief editor and Mrs. Mirjana Menković, President of Center for Heritage Conservation of Kosovo and Metohija Mnemosyne, for the occasion of publishing the two tomes of King Milutin‘s Charter for the Monastery of Banjska.
Press conference for the occasion of publishing the two tomes of King Milutin‘s Charter for the Monastery of Banjska (link do publikacije http://www.mnemosyne.org.rs/index.php/en/the-king-milutin-s-charter-of-banjska-monastery.html )took place on December 6th 2011 at the Press-Center of Association of Journalists of Serbia.
The speakers at the presentation were Đorđe Trifunović, Chief Editor, and Branko V. Jokić, Director of Museum in Priština.
Seven centuries after the appearance of one of the most important written monuments of Serbian culture, the handwritten scroll of St. Stephen’s Charter, and 120 years since the original transcription in form of a book was discovered at Old Serai at Constantinople, edited and printed in two editions (in Belgrade and Vienna) in 1890, the gift charter by King Milutin, the great-grandson of St. Simeon Nemanja, grandson of Stephen the First-Crowned and grandnephew of Sava, the first archbishop of Serbia.
King Milutin’s Charter to Monastery Banjska is a precious testimony on legal and domestic structure of medieval Serbia, a document of historical geography and historical grammar, a live source of Serbian language and a treasury of old names.
The press conference was started by showing a short film with citations from the Charter, which were prepared for that occasion by Mr Milojko Knežević, Editor at JP Službeni Glasnik. The film was prepared by using video records from the archives of RTS.
Publishers of two tomes of King Milutin‘s Charter for the Monastery of Banjska have handed the copies to Academy Member Momir Đurović, President of CANU, and Academy Member Miomir Dašić.
