Codex Zographensis

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The Codex Zographensis (Bulgarian: Зографско четвероевангелие, Zografsko chetveroevangelie, 'Four Gospels of Zograf') is a document that was found in the Bulgarian Zograf Monastery on Mount Athos in 1843 by A. Mihanović, and which dates from the late 10th or early 11th century. Along with the slightly older Codex Marianus it is an important document for its use of the round Glagolitic script, the oldest known Slavic alphabet, in which it is written, as well as the Old Church Slavonic (West Bulgarian recension) language upon which it is based.

The manuscript contains 304 parchment folios, of which the foremost have not been preserved, and thus begins with Matthew 3:11. In addition, several additional folios from the middle of the manuscript are missing. In the end of the 11th or beginning of the 12th century some missing folios (from 41 to 57) were replaced with 17 new ones, written in a somewhat newer version of the Glagolitic. They were themselves most likely a palimpsest.

[edit] References

• Altkirchenslawische Quellen: Der Codex Zographensis (German). KODEKS at the Otto-Friedrich University website. Retrieved on 2006-07-10.

[edit] Further reading

• V. Jagić: Studien über das altslovenische Zographosevangelium. Archiv für slavische Philologie I, II, 1876-1877.
• N. Grunskij: K Zografskomu evangeliju. In: Sbornik Otdelenija russkogo jazyka i slovesnosti Akademii Nauk LXXXIII, No. 3, 1907.
• N. van Wijk: Palaeoslovenica. I. O prototypie cerkiewno-sl/owian'skiego "Codex Zographensis". Rocznik Slawistyczny IX, 1921.
• N. van Wijk: Ešče raz o Zografskom četveroevangelii. Slavia I, 1922/23.
• J. Kurz: K Zografskému evangeliu. Slavia IX, 1930/31, XI, 1932.