About Luka Primojević
Luka Primojević was a writer, known for Dubrovnik.
Luka Paskalis Primojević (; ) was an early 16th-century Ragusan nobleman and Serbian chancellor. He belonged to a noble Primojević family. His father Paskoje and brothers Trajan and Niko were also scribes. In March 1514 Luka requested from the Ragusan Senate an approval to establish a printing house in Dubrovnik and to print books in Latin, Greek and Cyrillic scripts. The Ragusan Senate gave its approval valid for one year. A year later he wrote a request to senate to prolong the validity of this approval for eight months.
Family Luka was born into noble Ragusan Primojević family . His father was Paskoje Primojević, a scribe for Slavic language Luka's brothers Trajan and Niko were also scribes in Ragusa, Trajan in period 1527-1537 and Niko in period 1536–1566.
Attempt to establish a printing house In his letter to Ragusan senate he emphasized that he had intention to print books using the same letters used by Serbian priests in their churches, the same letters used in the Crnojević printing house which books were well respected and praised. In his letter to Senate he explained his intention to bring two printers from Italy to train local printers. Primojević also requested from Senate to allow him to import paper without any taxes, to designate a house and shop in the main square for Primojeivić to use and not to allow any other printer to install printing press in Ragusa for next 15 years.
As a scribe, Primojević used both unicursal and bicursal variant of letter ɣ. In 1531 document Luka's brother, Trajan, used the same version of ɣ letter used by his brother Luka.
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Who was Luka Primojević?
Ragusan nobleman and chancellor
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Luka Primojević was born in Republic of Ragusa.
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Luka Primojević was a writer.
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Luka Primojević was known for Dubrovnik.
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