The first book in the Albanian language, "Meshari" by Gjon Buzuku, began to be written 470 years ago, on March 20, 1554, and was completed on January 5, 1555.

Today, on the occasion of this anniversary, the National Historical Museum brought a fragment from this work in the original dialect in which it was written:

"Dear John, son of Bdek Buzuku, I often remember that our language had nothing to do with writing the scriptures, nor with the love of the world, I wanted to be enlightened, so that I could know, to open a little the minds of those who are enlightened... "In the years MDLIV. Twenty days in March I took the first, and in the years MDLV I was baptized, in the year of the Lord", reports KosovaPress.

This is what Gjon Buzuku writes in Meshar, the oldest Albanian literary work published and preserved to this day.

Buzuku was a Catholic priest, parish priest of a church in Northern Albania, not so far from the place of publication and one of the most important teachers of the Albanian language. With his work, he consolidated an important tradition of writing the Albanian language with the Latin alphabet.