[1] It is parchment copy of an ownership document from the cartulary of the Benedictine monastery of St John the Baptist.
It is one of the oldest Croatian cultural and linguistic records, which through its content provides a number of interesting insights into the various aspects of the time in which it was made.
The first modern edition was published in 1881 by Franjo Rački in his book Starine (Antiquities).
It is written in the Bosnian Cyrillic script by Ivan, the canon of the Cathedral Church of Split and a Hvar notary, at the request of the Povlja abbot Ivan, and by order of the Bishop of Hvar Nikola.
[1] The terse list of monastic estates reveal the Old Croatian tribal and clan common law procedures, and legal formulations contain recognizable vernacular and literary expressions, absent in later legal documents.