A Tractate on the Roman Milestone Discovered near Osijek

DISSERTATIO / DE / COLVMNA MILLIARIA / AD / ESZEKVM / REPERTA / QVAM / PETRVS KATANCIVS / PANNONIVS / O.S. FRANCISCI / SCHOL. HVMAN. PROFESSOR P.O. / CONSCRIPSIT. /

ESZEKI / TYPIS IOANN. MART. DIWALT / MDCCLXXXII.

• Osijek: I. M. Divald, 1782

  
  Inv. Essk. 1782 OB 99 / 0/A category

Matija Petar Katancic
(Valpovo, 1750 - Budim 1825)
One among the most learned men of the turn of the 19th c.: writer, university professor of archeology & numismatics, library curator, the fist translator of the Holy Scriptures into Croatian.
Katancic is also the author of the first Croatian archeological tractate, "Dissertatio de columna millaria = Tractate on the Roman Milestone Discovered near Osijek", a significant expert piece elaborated during his stay at Osijek's Franciscan friary. It was printed at the famous Divald's printing-office (three generations of master-printers, 1775-1857). Along with an exhausting tractate, it also contains a drawing of this lost milestone, as well as a ground-plan of Roman Mursa.