Erlangen Manuscript is manuscript

Manuscript

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 written in cyrilic in period between 1716 and 1733 which contain one of the earliest written collections (217 songs) of epic poetry

Epic poetry

An epic is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation. Oral poetry may qualify as an epic, and Albert Lord and Milman Parry have argued that classical epics were fundamentally an oral poetic form...

 written on Serbo-Croatian language

Serbo-Croatian language

Serbo-Croatian or Serbo-Croat, less commonly Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian , is a South Slavic language with multiple standards and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro...

. Author of Erlangen Manuscript is unknown person who wrote this manuscript for Austrian military commander Prince Eugene of Savoy

Prince Eugene of Savoy

Prince Eugene of Savoy , was one of the most successful military commanders in modern European history, rising to the highest offices of state at the Imperial court in Vienna. Born in Paris to aristocratic Italian parents, Eugene grew up around the French court of King Louis XIV...

, a governor of the territory of Serbia after Austria

Habsburg Monarchy

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 was captured it from Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire

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. It has been discovered in 1913 by Germanist Steinmeyer in library in Erlangen

Erlangen

Erlangen is a Middle Franconian city in Bavaria, Germany. It is located at the confluence of the river Regnitz and its large tributary, the Untere Schwabach.Erlangen has more than 100,000 inhabitants....

. It was researched by Gerhard Gesemann who prepared a study about it as his habilitation

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 in 1921. It was first time recorded in form of printed book in Sremski Karlovci

Sremski Karlovci

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 in 1925.

Erlangen Manuscript is mixture of Christian

Christian

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 and Muslim

Muslim

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songs. The estimation of the number of Muslim songs vary between 36 and 46.