Medieval and Manuscripts

Gospel of St. Nicholas of Rošci

The Gospel of Saint Nicholas (Serbian: Никољско јеванђеље, romanized: Nikoljsko jevanđelje) is a second half of the 14th century (close to 1400) Cyrillic illuminated manuscript written on 147 parchment leaves in Bosnia for the Bosnian Church. The writer used the Old Slavic language Bosnian redaction, with paleographic features of Bosnian Cyrillic. The Gospel was copied from a Glagolitic exemplar, and used the ikavian reflex of Yat (e.g. Mat II:2 ⟨звыздоу⟩). It was kept in the Serbian Orthodox Monastery of St. Nicholas of Rošci, where it was found by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, and after which the manuscript has been named. Following its discovery, Đuro Daničić published it in 1864. From the end of the 19th century until World War I, it was kept in the National Library in Belgrade, after which it was lost. Today it is located in Ireland. According to the philologist Pavel Šafárik (1858), the Gospel, which he called "The Gospel of Queen Jelena", was written for Saint Helen of Serbia, between 1240 and 1250.

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• ▸Acheiropoieta
• ▸Dark matter
• ▸Basilica of Our Lady of Geneva

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