Simon Greblo

Simon Greblo (also Šimun Greblo, Simon Greblić) Greblo is generally considered the brightest Croatian copyist of his day.

His first known work in Glagolitic is the Interpretation of the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ (Tlmačenie od muki Gospoda našego Isuhrsta), whose transcription was completed on 5 March 1493. It is a work of narrative prose read on Good Friday. In the same year he became a priest It is unknown whether Greblo was a translator or just a transcriber. An attempt to establish that Greblo died in 1551 failed. He probably died shortly after the last entry in the account book of the Brotherhood of St. Bartholomew in 1529. The language of Greblo's texts is Chakavian, with a consistently carried out Liburnian Ekavization and rare Paleo-Slavicisms.

Greblo's name can be found in many Glagolitic texts that were in Roč in his time: the Missal of Ročka (1497), the Copenhagen Missal (1491), the Breviary of Vid Omišljanin (1503), Novak's Missal (1512). On the frescoes of the cemetery church of St. Jerome in Hum, it was reported in Glagolitic, (in Latin language): Ik fuit presbyter Simon de Roco. He managed the Brotherhood of St. Bartola in Roč and kept the fraternal books in Glagolitic from 1526 to 1533.

All his manuscripts are characterized by beautiful book italics, and he wrote equally beautifully in the Croatian type of Cyrillic. Only Greblo's Interpretation of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ was published in print (edited by A. Zbogija Kiš, 2001).

Works transribed and/or by Greblo Interpretation of the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ (Tlmačenie od muki gospoda našego Isuhrsta) (1493) Spiritual Quadriga (Kvadriga duhovnim zakonom) (1493) Quaresimal (Lent) (Kvarezimal- Korizmenjak) (1498)