The earliest use of Albanian in the written form that predates the Baptism Formula by Pal Engjelli is found in the Greek Easter Gospel Fragments from the 1300s. 15 lines that translate parts of the Gospel of Matthew and “Christ is Risen!” In Albanian that was used for litergical chants.

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  1. Source: Giakoumis K. (2011). ‘The Policy of the Orthodox Patriarchate Toward the Use of Albanian in Church Services’, Albanohellenica, v. 4, pp. 137-171. (Picture above)

    Nilo Borgia’s, Pericope Evangelica in Lingua Albanese del Secolo XIV) (1930)

    Catalogus Codicum Graecorum of the Ambrosiana Library by Lambros (1906)