Old Church Slavonic evangeliary on display in Serbia

OLD CHURCH SLAVONIC WATCH: Miroslav’s Gospel on display at the National Museum to mark UNESCO listing anniversary. In a video message on his Instagram profile, Minister of Culture Nikola Selaković stated that Miroslav’s Gospel is on display at the National Museum to mark 20 years since the oldest preserved Serbian Cyrillic manuscript book was inscribed on UNESCO’s Memory of the World list. (Snezana Rakic, Serbian Monitor).

Created in the 1180s, Miroslav’s Gospel was written on parchment, contains 181 leaves and 296 miniatures drawn with a quill, later coloured with a brush and decorated with gold. An inscription on the last leaf of the Gospel confirms that it was commissioned by Miroslav, the Prince of Hum and brother of Grand Prince Stefan Nemanja. It is believed that the scribe or miniaturist of the Gospel was a monk named Gligorije, whose signature appears on the last written page.

Miroslav’s Gospel is written in Old Church Slavonic, in the Serbian recension and the Raška orthography. Structurally, it is an evangeliary – a liturgical book containing selected passages from the four Gospels. ...

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