Pauline Rovas Script

The well-known Szekler-Hungarian Rovas (Runic) script was used during the whole Hungarian history up to now. However, as the historians started to explore the Hungarian past, more and more rovas written notations appeared that cannot be understood to be the Szekler-Hungarian Rovas alphabet.

This writing was used extensively, especially by the monks and priests. However, it was not an official writing system, because in this time the official documents were created in Latin language in the Hungarian Kingdom in Latin script, naturally.

The usage of this script was not specific for any kind of monks, however the last known relics were created by the Pauline monks. That is why this script has been named as Pauline Rovas Writing, or Pálos rovásírás in Hungarian.

The script was probably written Left-To-Right based on the known relics however, further scientific research is necessary. It is not practised anymore, apparently it never had an official alphabet, but there exist many remnants. After the 17th century, the Pauline Rovas Writing was completely forgotten. It was explored in the 20th century, only (see external references).

Currently the literature of the Pauline Rovas script is very poor, and a few of them has been transcripted to Latin script. However, one fact is obvious based on the relics (see the external references): its letters were different from the Szekler-Hungarian Rovas script.

References

The Hungarian Pauline Order

The two kinds of the Hungarian Rovas Writing

Pauline Rovas script relic from the Catholic church in Felsőszemeréd (Slovakia)

One of the latest Pauline Rovas relic from South America (Paraguay, Cerro Pelado)

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