The study is focused on the pedagogical work of Ján Sinapius Parva schola and its religious and educational content. At the beginning, the author of the paper outlines the basic genealogical data of the Sinapius family and, based on several biographical dictionaries, brings his biography and his literary work, which belongs to the period of Slovak Baroque. Parva schola was published in 1658 in Trenčín. The work is conceived against the background of individual grammatical categories of the Latin language, while the author focuses on the catechetical explanation of the main theses of Protestant teaching. The meaning and content of the text is interconnected by copperplate’s decoration and begins with the title page. It is embedded in an oval cartouche, side by side with nine miniature emblematic illustrations in acanthi helical smaller cartouches with the names of individual word types: Nomen, Pronomen, Verbum, Participium, Adverbium, Praepositio, Coniunctio, Interjectio. The author of the engraving decoration is the famous engraver Móric Lang, who comes from Augsburg, Germany and worked in Slovakia, too. Based on content analysis of the work, the author concludes that this didactic work by Ján Sinapius cannot in any case be characterized as a textbook of Latin grammar, since all grammatical categories are established on theological, catechetical interpretation of the categories, but not from the grammar perspective. They are based on the division of grammatical categories with regard to the Christian faith based on the Bible.
A comprehensive analysis of the content of the text can be found in an extensive study at the end of the facsimile edition of Parva schola.