The formula e pagëzimit (English: baptismal formula) is the oldest written document with a writing in Albanian which has been found.
The document is “Codex Ashburnham” dated November 8, 1462, and it contains various notes on Albania written in Latin by Archbishop Pal Engjëlli.
[3] In English it is: "I baptize thee in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit".
[1] The document is held in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, Italy, where it was discovered in 1915 by Romanian scholar Nicolae Iorga.
[4] Albanian scripts were produced earlier than Formula e pagëzimit, we know of their existence by earlier references, for example a French monk noted in 1332, that "although the Albanians have another language totally different from Latin, they still use Latin letters in all their books.