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The oldest translation of the Bible into a Slavic language, Old Church Slavonic, has close connections with the activity of the two apostles to the Slavs, Cyril and Methodius, in Great Moravia in 864–865. The oldest manuscripts use either the so-called Cyrillic or the Glagolitic alphabets.
From an illustrated manuscript depicting a scene in The Legend of Aphroditian, Mount Athos Esphigmenou Codex 14, an 11th-century manuscript. The Legend of Aphroditian (or Aphroditianus ), also known as the Narrative of Events Happening in Persia on the Birth of Christ , is an expansion of the story of the Adoration of the Magi found in the ...
The manuscript, now in the British Library (Add. MS 39627), contains the text of the Four Gospels illustrated with 366 miniatures and consists of 286 parchment folios, 33 by 24.3 cm in size. [2] But in the main, the Bulgarian Orthodox church continued to use the Old Church Slavonic until the 1940s.
Pre-Christian Slavic writing is a hypothesized writing system that may have been used by the Slavs prior to Christianization and the introduction of the Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabets. No extant evidence of pre-Christian Slavic writing exists, but early Slavic forms of writing or proto-writing may have been mentioned in several early ...
Old East Slavic chronicles (1 C, 31 P) Pages in category "Church Slavonic manuscripts" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total.
At the end, there is a church calendar with Slavic month names. The manuscript was most likely written in Western Macedonia, presumably in the vicinity of Ohrid, as it contains features characteristic of the local dialect, such as: vocalization of the hard yer in a strong position in o, such as vsĕmъ, zam. sъ vьsĕmъ, vo snĕ, zam.
Church Slavonic manuscripts (2 C, 46 P) O. Old East Slavic manuscripts (1 C, 14 P) S. South Slavic manuscripts (5 C, 13 P) Pages in category "Slavic manuscripts"
The Codex Suprasliensis is a 10th-century Cyrillic literary monument, the largest extant Old Church Slavonic canon manuscript and the oldest Slavic literary work located in Poland. As of September 20, 2007, it is on UNESCO's Memory of the World list.