Bartholomew of Krbava (; ) was a Croatian manuscript illuminator, calligrapher and scribe. Several richly illuminated codexes are authored by and ascribed to him and his scriptorium, most notably the Berlin missal (1402), Beram missal and RoÃÂ missal (1421).
Historian Petar Runje identifies Bartol as a son of a local scribe and a citizen of Zadar, John, and his wife Florela as one of two children. The first recorded mention of Bartholomew was in 1399 in Zadar, when his father arranged for him to be sent to train as a goldsmith in Venice. This hypothesis is disputed by FerenÃÂak, stating that there were several scribes under that name during this period in Dalmatia and Croatia. In 1402, his first work, the Berlin missal, was completed somewhere in Krbava, which he wrote and illuminated for the priest Vuk, from the benedictine monastery of Saint George on the river Zrmanja. Because of turbulent times, specifically the dynastic wars between Sigismund of Luxembourg and Ladislaus of Naples, supported by Viceroy of Croatia Hrvoje VukÃÂiÃÂ HrvatiniÃÂ, Batholomew withdrew from Obrovac to the north, probably in Bakar, and later to Istria. His later missals RoÃÂ and Beram Missals were made during the 1420s.
FerenÃÂak attributes four preserved manuscripts (three missals, one breviary) and two fragments to him and his scriptorium, which includes both the illuminations and the text.
M. PanteliÃÂ also attributes Bakar breviary to him.