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Codex Zographensis


The Codex Zographensis (or Tetraevangelium Zographense; scholarly abbreviation Zo) is an illuminated Old Church Slavonic canon manuscript. It is composed of 304 parchment folios; the first 288 are written in Glagolitic containing Gospels, and the rest written in Cyrillic containing a 13th-century synaxarium. It is dated at late 10th or early 11th century.

The manuscript was found in the Bulgarian Zograf Monastery on Mount Athos in 1843 by the Croatian writer and diplomat Antun Mihanović. Codex's existence was however made known to public by Izmail Sreznevsky who published some parts of it in 1856. In 1860 monks from the Zograf monastery donated the Codex to Russian emperor Alexander II who donated it to Russian National Library, where the Codex is being kept today. The first to describe the codex was Viktor I. Grigorovič in 1877, and two years later the Glagolitic part of the codex was published by Slavist Vatroslav Jagić in Berlin as Quattuor evangeliorum codex glagoliticus olim Zographensis nunc Petropolitanus, completely transcribed in Cyrillic, with introduction and extensive philological commentary in Latin. Jagić's edition has been reprinted as a facsimile edition in Graz in 1954. Other scholars who have extensively studied the language of Codex Zographensis include the Josef Kurz and the Leszek Moszyński.


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