Codex Zographensis

Codex Zographensis

The Codex Zographensis (Bulgarian: Зографско четвероевангелие, Zografsko chetveroevangelie, 'Four Gospels of Zograf') is an illuminated manuscript 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. In the strictest definition of illuminated manuscript, only manuscripts decorated with gold or silver, like this miniature of Christ in Majesty from the Aberdeen Bestiary (folio 4v), would be considered illuminated. ... The St George the Zograf or Zograf Monastery (Bulgarian: Зографски манастир, Zografski manastir; Greek: Μονή Ζωγράφου) is a Bulgarian Orthodox monastery on Mount Athos in Greece. ... Capital Karyes Languages Koine Greek, Church Slavonic (both liturgical), as well as Modern Greek, Russian, Serbian, Georgian, Bulgarian, Romanian (civil) Head of State Greek Minister of For. ... Old Church Slavonic (Old Bulgarian, Old Macedonian, or Old Slavic) is the first literary Slavic language, developed from the Slavic dialect of Thessaloniki (Solun) by the 9th century Byzantine missionaries, Saints Cyril and Methodius. ...

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. German parchmenter, 1568 Parchment is a material for the pages of a book or codex, made from fine calf skin, sheep skin or goat skin. ... A palimpsest is a manuscript page, scroll, or book that has been written on, scraped off, and used again. ...

References

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

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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.