Hilandar Fragments Explained

Hilandar Fragments
Writing:Cyrillic script
Created:late 10th to early 11th century
Discovered:1844
Location:Odessa

Hilandar Fragments are a medieval Old Church Slavonic manuscript from the end of the 10th and the beginning of the 11th century. It is one of the oldest preserved Slavic monuments written in Cyrillic script.[1]

Hilandar Fragments contain two sheets and are parts of a sermon Saint Cyril of Jerusalem (318-395).[2] They were discovered in 1844 in Hilandar monastery. Viktor I. Gligorovich donated them to the Novoruska State Library in Odessa - today Odessa University, where they are still kept.[3]

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  1. http://www.hilandar.info/strana.php?strana_id=272 Хиландар Хиландар, Библиотека Хиландарски листићи
  2. Book: Tadeusz Lehr-Spławiński, Czesław Bartula. Zarys gramatyki języka staro-cerkiewno-słowiańskiego na tle porównawczym. Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich. Wrocław. 1973. 11. 9780598595508.
  3. Book: Leszek Moszyński. Wstęp do filologii słowiańskiej. Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe. Warsaw. 1984. 153. 9788301001360.