The oral folk poetry was very popular in Kotor bay and during the 18th century, people began recording them.
The manuscript was found by Srećko Vulović in the house of a noble Perast family Smecchia.
[6][7] Some authors insist that manuscript belongs to unknown collector rejecting the possibility that it was Zmajević.
[14] In this manuscript from Boka Kotorska eight songs are presented in two versions: like bugarštica and in ten-syllable verse.
One bugarštica which is similar to drama and another which more resembles the song, describe Miloš Obilić both referring to his last name as Koviljić.
[22] This play does not have short title, but rather long one: “Here begins the battle of Prince Lazar and the evil purpose of Miloš Kobilić and of the traitor Vuk Branković and the nine Jugović brothers at Kosovo field on June 24, 1343.”.
[23] The author of this play deprived the Kosovo legend of its overtones connected to Serbian Orthodoxy and gave it more general Christian ones instead of the particular national tale.
[25] One of them, sometimes referred to as Balovićs manuscript, contains 24 folk poems including 9 bugarštica, all of them thematically connected with Kotor Bay.