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The '''{{lang|la|Codex Zographensis}}''' (or '''{{lang|la|Tetraevangelium Zographense}}'''; scholarly abbreviation '''''Zo''''') is an [[illuminated manuscript|illuminated]] [[Old Church Slavonic]] [[Old Church Slavonic#Canon|canon]] [[manuscript]]. It is composed of 304 [[parchment]] folios; the first 288 are written in [[Glagolitic script|Glagolitic]] containing [[Gospel]]s and organised as Tetraevangelium (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), and the rest written in [[Early Cyrillic|Cyrillic]] containing a 13th-century [[synaxarium]]. It is dated back to the end of the 10th or beginning of the 11th century.<ref name="Damjanovic_2003_p17">{{harvcoltxt|Damjanović|2003|p=17}}</ref>

== Discovery and publishing ==
[[File:ZographensisColour.jpg|right|thumb|200px|{{lang|la|Codex Zographensis}} with the beginning of Mark's Gospel "ⰵⰲⰰⰳⰳ[ⰵ]ⰾⰻⰵ ⱁⱅⱏ ⰿⰰⱃⱏⰽⰰ (Єваггєлїе отъ Маръка)" ([[Saint Petersburg]], [[National Library of Russia]], Ms. [[#RUS-SPscGlag1|глаг. 1]], f.77r)]]
The manuscript originally belonged to the Bulgarian [[Zograf Monastery]] on [[Mount Athos]]. It is said that it was kept at a conventual church near Ierisso and later transferred to the monastery's library. In 1843, the Croatian writer and Habsburgian diplomat [[Antun Mihanović]] discovered the manuscript during his stay at the monastery. The codex's importance was announced by the Russian historian and folklorist [[Victor Grigorovich]] who visited the monastery one year later and who is regarded as the founder of Slavonic studies in Russia. [[Izmail Sreznevsky]] published a first transcription of some parts of the manuscript in 1856.<ref>Кирилометодиевска енциклопедия, т. І, София 1985, с. 739-740</ref> In 1860 monks from the Zograf monastery donated the Codex to the Russian emperor [[Alexander II of Russia|Alexander II]].<ref>See folio 1 with dedication signed by  Anthimus, Archimandrite of the monastery  ([[#RUS-SPscGlag1|Zo]], f.1r).</ref> The donation was transferred to Russia during an archaeological expedition of [[Sevastyanov|Pyotr Sevastyanov]] (1811-1867).<ref>See a [[#Sevastyanov|short biography]] published by the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.</ref> In 1862, this archaeological collection was divided and transferred to different institutions in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. The Glagolitic codex became part of the collection of the [[Russian National Library|Imperial Public Library]], where the Codex is kept until today. The first who described the codex was Victor Grigorovich in 1877, and two years later the Glagolitic part of the codex was published by the Slavist [[Vatroslav Jagić]] in Berlin as ''Quattuor evangeliorum codex glagoliticus olim Zographensis nunc Petropolitanus'', completely transcribed in Cyrillic, with an introduction and an extensive philological commentary in [[Latin]].<ref name="Damjanovic_2003_p17"/> 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 were [[Josef Kurz]], [[Leszek Moszyński]] and the librarian Vyacheslav Zagrebin who was responsible for its restoration during the 1990s. During January 2016, monks of the Zograf monastery visited Saint Petersburg in order to report about a digitisation project of the manuscript which intended to make it available to the public. As result of their diplomatic visit a Zographensis room was established at the [[SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library]] in Sofia, and a virtual exhibition of the whole manuscript with a modernised transcription was published at the homepage of the Russian National Library.<ref>See the external link to this virtual exhibition, also made available in English ([[#RUS-SPscGlag1|Zo]]).</ref>

== Content ==
The manuscript contains 304 [[parchment]] folios. The first few ones have not been preserved, and thus it begins with [[Matthew 3:11]] and ends with [[Gospel of John|John]], with Mt 16:20-24:20 being later insertion in Old Church Slavonic Grammar.<ref>{{harvcoltxt|Lunt|2001|p=7}}</ref>  In total, the first 288 folios are written in Glagolitic and contain Gospel text. In addition, several additional folios from the middle of the manuscript are missing. At 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 square Glagolitic. They were themselves most likely a [[palimpsest]]. The rest of the 16 folios contain 13th-century [[synaxarium]].

== Origin and linguistic features ==
Along with the slightly older [[Codex Marianus]] it is an important document for its use of the round [[Glagolitic script]], the oldest recorded Slavic alphabet. By analyzing the language of the codex it was established that the style and antiquity of the text is nonuniform, second part being more archaic than the first part. Some scholars explain this by gradual adaptation to the language of the source from which the manuscript originated. Generally, phonology of  the language of Codex Zographensis is archaic - vocalizations of [[Havlík's law|strong yers]] are rare, epenthetic ''l'' is preserved, though in most parts of the manuscript ''yers'' are being assimilated.<ref name="Damjanovic_2003_p17"/> It is a bit less archaic with respect to morphology and syntax, though the forms of definite declension of adjectives and older forms of participles are well-preserved (e.g. ''prošь'', ''nošь'' and rarely ''prosivъ'', ''nosivъ'').<ref name="Damjanovic_2003_p17"/>

== Gallery ==

<gallery>
Image:ZografskiyKodeks.png|Codex Zographensis with the Gospel of St John (Zograf monastery, Ms. [[#RUS-SPscGlag1|глаг. 1]], f.225r)
Image:Kodex.Zograf.JPG|A page from the ''Codex Zographensis'' with text of the Gospel according to St Luke XIV, 19-24 (Zograf monastery, Ms. [[#RUS-SPscGlag1|глаг. 1]], f.187v)
</gallery>

==See also==

* [[List of Glagolitic manuscripts]]
* [[Psalterium Sinaiticum]]
* [[Codex Marianus]]

== Footnotes ==
{{Reflist|2}}

==References==
* {{citation |title= Quattuor evangeliorum Codex glagoliticus olim Zographensis nunc Petropolitanus|last= Jagić |first=Vatroslav |author-link= Vatroslav Jagić |year= 1879|location= [[Berlin|Berolini]]|url= https://archive.org/details/quattuorevangeli00jagiuoft}}
* {{citation |last= Damjanović |first= Stjepan |author-link=Stjepan Damjanović| title= Staroslavenski jezik |publisher= Hrvatska sveučilišna naklada |year= 2003 |location= Zagreb |isbn= 953-169-095-2 }}
* {{citation | last= Schenker| first= Alexander |author-link=Alexander M. Schenker |title=The Dawn of Slavic: An Introduction to Slavic Philology |publisher=Yale University Press |location= New Haven |year= 1995 |isbn=0-300-05846-2}}
* {{citation |last=Lunt |first=Horace G. |author-link=Horace G. Lunt |title=Old Church Slavonic Grammar |edition=7h revised |publisher=Mouton de Gruyter |location=New York |year=2001 |isbn=3-11-016284-9}}

==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.

==External links==
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=== Manuscript ===
* {{cite web 
|title=Saint Petersburg, Rossiyskaya Natsional'naya Biblioteka, Ms. Глаг. 1 
|work = “Codex Zographensis” (Zo) — Old Church Slavonic Tetraevangelium written in Glagolitic script by the Ohrid Literary School with later additions of the 12th (part of Matthew) and of the 13th (synaxaria added by Priest Ioan in Cyrillic) centuries (11th century)
|url=http://expositions.nlr.ru/ex_manus/Zograph_Gospel/eng/ 
|publisher=National Library of Russia 
|location=Saint Petersburg
|ref=RUS-SPscGlag1
}}
=== Editions ===
* [http://www.helsinki.fi/slaavilaiset/ccmh/zographensis.html Codex Zographensis transliterated in 7-bit ASCII], at the Corpus Cyrillo-Methodianum Helsingiense
*{{cite web 
|title=Codex Zographensis on the basis of the edition by V. Jagić 
|url=http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/etcs/slav/aksl/zograph/zogra.htm 
|website=TITUS 
|publisher=Jost Gippert 
|location=Frankfurt/Main
|date=2010
}}
=== Description ===
*{{cite web
|last=Kempgen
|first=Sebastian
|title=Codex Zographensis
|url=http://kodeks.uni-bamberg.de/AKSL/Quellen/AKSL.CdxZographensis.htm
|website=Kodeks – OCS Sources
|publisher=Slavische Sprachwissenschaft
|location=University Bamberg
|access-date=2006-07-10
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204043757/http://kodeks.uni-bamberg.de/AKSL/Quellen/AKSL.CdxZographensis.htm
|archive-date=2012-02-04
|url-status=dead
}}

=== Biography ===
* {{cite web 
|title=Sevastyanov, Pyotr Ivanovich (1811–1867). St. Petersburg – Moscow 
|url=http://germanprints.ru/reference/collections/sevastianov/index.php?lang=en 
|website=German prints 
|publisher=Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts 
|ref=Sevastyanov 
|location=Moscow
}}

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[[Category:Athos manuscripts|Zographensis]]
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[[Category:10th-century biblical manuscripts]]
[[Category:11th-century biblical manuscripts]]
[[Category:10th-century illuminated manuscripts]]
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[[Category:Cyrillo-Methodian studies]]
[[Category:Zograf Monastery]]