Hilandar Fragments Explained

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

Hilandar Fragments (Serbian: Хиландарски листићи / Hilandarski listići) are a medieval 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.