[0b] The origin of this word is rather oriental than Roman. It is the Persian Shah, and not the Cæsar of Rome, nor the Kaiser of Germany.
[0c] The best sources of Servian history are:
George Brankovich’s History of Servia, MS. in Karlovitz.
Julinac’s vvedencie v istoria slaveno-serbskag Naroda.
Raicz’s Kratkaia Serblii, Rassii, Bosny i Ramy Istoria; and by the same author, Istoria Slavenskich Narodov, &c.
Von Engel’s Geschichte von Servien und Bosnien.
Neshkovicz’s Istoria Slaveno-bolgarskog Naroda, and Davidovicz’s Jeianija k Istoria Srbskoga Naroda. See Schaffarik’s Slawische Sprache und Literatur, p. 196.
[0d] Geschichte der Slawischen Sprache und Literatur, p. 201.
[0e] Grimm’s Introduction to Vuk’s Servian Grammar, p. x.
[0f] Adelung, who has only given a fragment of the Servian language in his Mithridates, calls the Servian and Bosnian dialects “the clearest and purest of all the Illyrian tongues.”